Bogosity

Last weekend I blogged about how boring religion is and how I couldn’t be bothered blogging about it. This week I’ve caught up on some podcasts, even listened to a religion report and, wait for it, went to church on Sunday. Admittedly I turned up about half way through the service and was [...]

My forms arrived from SFC today for withdrawing from the subjects I had enrolled in for this semester. I had to withdraw from the intensive because I’ve already used up too much leave this year with my injured finger. I had to withdraw from the Wednesday morning lecture because I’m no longer doing [...]

As promised, here is my assignment for The Triune God (C52021) course that I did at St Francis’ college this semester. I didn’t do so well in this one as you’ll notice that I haven’t really answered the essay question. The essay is more of a history lesson of the Trinity in the [...]

At the risk of getting a bit too theological (in the dry academic sense) I thought I’d post an assignment I did last semester. I was going to post it ages ago but I never found out the result for it as I didn’t realise that I had to look in the filing cabinet [...]

This is not an original idea or anything but I have been thinking a bit about the “wishful thinking” aspect of theology. The way that we seem to form theology based on what we would like to be true. I think this is an inescapable problem in theology – especially since the Enlightenment [...]

I just finished listening to Encounter which focussed on Karl Rahner but also had a lot of discussion of Ignatian spirituality which is the spirituality which forms the basis of the Jesuit religious order of which Rahner was a member.

Mark Raper the leader of the Jesuits in Australia talks about how Ignatius practiced his religion.

Mark [...]

A couple of good podcasts this week for theologians on Radio National. The Ark has a short discussion of Paul Tillich from a historical perspective. The program contextualises him as someone who tried to save liberalism post WWII and observes that theology today has become more conservative than in the fifties and sixties.

Encounter [...]