[Originally a sermon for the fifth Sunday in Easter, year A] John 14:1-14 In the church of my childhood I was taught that, if you want God to welcome you, you have to know about Jesus, you have to believe that he’s [...]
Unfinished Lecture Notes on Systematic Theology
[Excepted from “The Dogma Is the Drama,” 1939] … Judging by what my young friends tell me and also by what is said on the subject in anti-Christian literature written by people who ought to have taken a little trouble to find [...]
Pluralism & the Gospel
[More about Evolution Weekend here. A version of this appeared on their website in 2010.] Darwin was the first thinker to convince most scientists that the remarkable variety of living things can result from everyday processes. There’s no need for some sort [...]
[This was originally a pamphlet I wrote back in 2004. Some of it is a bit dated.—Fr. Charles] What does the Bible say directly about same-sex marriage? This: That’s right. The Bible says nothing directly about it—nothing about a prayerful, [...]
The very first book I got around to reading by John Caputo was his first edition of On Religion (London: Routledge, 2001). I loved it. It’s now in a much revised second edition (2019) that I’m still absorbing. One thing that’s changed [...]
Every sermon I’ve ever preached in the past 40+ years has at least presumed some sort of panentheism. Sometimes I actually focus on it, though avoiding technical jargon (including the word “panentheism”!). The following is a version of a sermon I’ve preached [...]
CTS Lecture Notes on Evangelical Theology
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