Sofia
God’s right hand
Explains what ‘seated at the right hand of the Father’ means in the Creed, as honour, power, permanence, rest, sovereignty and judgement, and argues it is metaphor rather than a statement about location.
Explains what ‘seated at the right hand of the Father’ means in the Creed, as honour, power, permanence, rest, sovereignty and judgement, and argues it is metaphor rather than a statement about location.
Anthony Freeman describes how the Church of England’s 1976 Doctrine Commission report exposed the weakness of liberal theology, and how Don Cupitt’s non-realism freed him from the claim that God must exist. He lost his...
Anthony Freeman reviews Joan Chittister’s My Theology, which rejects the catechism’s God for a cosmic presence, attacks male images of God, and asks what distinguishes her God from a label for human creativity.
Anthony Freeman reviews Mike Grimshaw’s Geering Interviews, in which Lloyd Geering recalls his 1960s heresy trial over the resurrection and his non-theist, this-worldly Christianity.
Anthony Freeman argues that worship remains natural and meaningful without belief in a supernatural God, illustrating from the origins of the Christian year in agricultural festivals and the daily cycle of offices.
Anthony Freeman reviews Lloyd Geering’s From the Big Bang to God, which traces cosmic and human evolution to the Feuerbachian view that God is a human creation; he finds it familiar and hurried.
Anthony Freeman reviews Darren Oldridge’s The Devil: A Very Short Introduction, which traces the changing image of Satan, witchcraft, exorcism and art, and the loss of a vocabulary for evil today.
Anthony Freeman asks how natural selection produced a moral sense. He traces altruism from kin selection to protomorality and concludes good and evil are objectively grounded in biology yet context-dependent, avoiding both relativism and absolutism.
Anthony Freeman argues that St John’s passion narrative deliberately reverses the Eden story. Its nameless garden, ‘Behold the man’, the cross as tree, the unnamed ‘Woman’ and the risen gardener present Jesus as a second...
Anthony Freeman offers a personal response to the Network’s anthology This Life on Earth, and argues that ecology is a purely human concern and should be pursued for our own sake.