THE NOTION OF ‘RADICAL CHURCH’ takes the world seriously – that is, we are to take the world seriously as the place where God is active. That includes meeting together as a community where we learn to care for each other, and prompting each other to be aware of what is happening in the wider [...]
QUESTIONS ABOUT GOD AND THE SECULAR WORLD
Wes Campbell
In the past few years an ‘atheist’ voice has been heard. In response theologians have written, often in defensive and hectoring manner, mimicking the voices of critics, such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.
In this blog I intend to offer some of my own ‘take’ on the [...]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer says:
‘When Christ calls someone, he bids them come and die.’
Bible Study UniMelb: Acts of the Apostles, 7th September 2009
Today we began with a general conversation about ‘suffering’. I have remembered that I posted some reflections on that theme on the BLOG: http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/radicalchurc…
I will add to that soon with reference to the discussion of atheism (Alister McGrath) and the ‘God who suffers’ (Dietrich Bonhoeffer).
We recalled the [...]
THURSDAY FORUMS:
brief but serious Christian thinking!
THESE ARE LUNCHTIME SESSIONS AT MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY, HOSTED BY WES CAMPBELL, CHAPLAIN.
1– 2.00pm Thursday lunchtimes
Alice Hoy Building (Education) , room 330
Following on the discussion of science and Christian theology in first semester, we are broadening the discussion to take up some current cultural and historical challenges with visiting theologians. The [...]
Peace and the New Testament –
Is there any justification for war in the New Testament?
By Wes Campbell
PEACE & SOCIAL JUSTICE:
Christian-Muslim Co-operation in our community
an Ideas Forum hosted by Pax Christi, Sunday 21st June 2009
I am to speak to you as a Christian theologian and interpreter of the New Testament on the question, ‘Is there [...]
REVISITING ‘RADICAL CHURCH’ – THE RADICAL NATURE OF FAITH
Gerhard Ebeling, The Nature of Faith, Collins/Fontana , 1966
(Ebeling: A German theologian and New Testament scholar, a student of Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
An excerpt from chapter IX: ‘The I of Faith’: On the radical freedom of faith:
To confess one’s faith is part of faith, and to commit oneself [...]
A reflection: Wes Campbell
The title of this blog is ‘radical church’.
A few months ago I explained why we had chosen this title. The question is whether we can take the name ‘radical’ seriously. And will we explore what it means to be ‘church’?
On this campus we try to provide opportunity to explore the [...]
GUILT, DOUBT AND GRACE
These words, GUILT, DOUBT and GRACE, name major themes of Christian faith. As it turns out, they are also the subject of serious discussion in books, films and plays. Here I look at three recent films/plays/novels and look briefly at theological questions they address. (Click on the title for full text)
WISDOM AND THE UNIVERSITY
Wisdom and a New theological Way
Wes Campbell, University of Melbourne
Introduction
Wisdom in Israel
Roughly speaking, I understand von Rad’s thesis to be this: in post-exilic Judaism the immediacy of the great saving events (exodus and the royal house of David) had receded. The ancient faith, then, expressed in the credo of the LORD’S liberation [...]
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