Sublime

The General Council alone should have power to excommunicate, and to give authoritative interpretations of Scripture. Thus all believers will have a voice in deciding doctrine. The Church is to have no secular authority; there is to be no excommunication without civil concurrence; and the Pope is to have no special powers.

What Thomas’s claim amounts to is that the ‘act of being’ in virtue of which the Word of God is the Word of God is the sole ground of the act of being in virtue of which Jesus of Nazareth is Jesus of Nazareth considered as an active finite agent; and the implication clearly is that there can be in Jesus no finite act of being in virtue of which he

They tell us that ‘God’ is not an idea contained in a form of words but a way of being towards others and towards Being itself. Reverent. Expectant. Wordless. Never controlling, because love and goodness cannot be compelled. We should do good for its own sake as if God did not exist.

All are not created on equal terms, but some are pre-ordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends,

One leader told me how dangerous a particular theologian on the “liberal” side was because she was always there with her students when someone lost a job or suffered a miscarriage. This meant, he implied, that she elicited a type of loyalty that would lead those students away from orthodoxy. I would disagree with the “liberal” on virtually all the

In contrast, it is an emphasis on action, and particularly God’s action in worship, that Wolterstorff distills as the “genius” of Reformed and Protestant worship. “The liturgy as the Reformers understood and practiced it consists of God acting and us responding through the work of the Spirit.”

ROWers believe, fourth, in the centering of white understandings, white theology, white values, and white actions.

Authority to define what is right and wrong is now linked to a role, rather than to a powerful personality (as was the case in Red); it’s the priest’s robe, whoever wears it, that defines authority.

I had known and studied with Ross Nichols, had trained in psychology and psychotherapy, and in 1988 was asked to lead the Order he had founded twenty-four years previously. The Order published the course that I had created with the help of a number of writers, including Ross Nichols and John and Caitlín Matthews.