God talk

  God and the gods Taken from; en.wikipedia.org   This is a question that I have thought about for a long time.   For the great world religions is that they all have a claim to being the exclusive truth.   In the public sphere it means accepting one and rejecting the others.   This to me is a simplistic answer and I have found no theology to do justice to this problem.   Each theologian claims the centre ground for themselves or there is a complete surrender to inclusiveness where all the religions are blended into one, such as liberalism.   These all fail to do justice to religious and theological dialogue.   Gunton saw this as a problem and in his book the One the Three and the Many gave a possible outline.   It is true that not all the religions can be right, can they?   The answer is that they cannot but perhaps each religion has something to teach another about something.   It is also a great sin to force a belief system into subjectivity of another system.   Without respect

    Let us walk by faith then we can see clearly! As a child when I heard about walking on the narrow path, I didn’t really understand it.   Life is full of ups and downs such as this morning.   On my way to work we got hit by a blizzard. With about 6cm of snow on the road with desert like sand dune strips crossing our path.   We could have been in the Sahara, but we weren’t; This is Finland at -2.     In the late 1990’s I remember close to the end of my theology degree that I read Herman Bavinck’s magnificent doctrine of God.   This was before the translation that was edited by John Bolt.   This is a major reason why I wanted to get my hands on Reformed Ethics by Herman Bavinck because we can learn so much from him.   I’m still waiting for the second volume as I have had to order it a second time.   However, I want to move from the earth to the heavens.   I want to move from humanity to God.   Karl Barth a great theologian though he is, I still feel that Bavinck is just as imp