Thoughts on faith, culture, and public life.
An original recipe by Rod Benson We all have our favourite sweet and savoury dishes. As this is my first food blog post, I thought I'd share my favourite sweet recipe: classic New York cheesecake, aka bistro cheesecake, or simply baked cheesecake. I've been making variations of this recipe for many years, and it's probably …
Welcome to The Theology Whisperer, a series of short blog posts on theology and theological education. In previous posts I outlined the descriptive and critical tasks of theology; in this post (and the next), I want to look at theology’s constructive task. By this I mean theological work characterised not only by good biblical interpretation …
G. H. Morling on suffering and divine providence In previous posts (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), I outlined aspects of the thought of Australian Baptist theologian G. H. Morling on the causes and purposes of suffering. In this and the next post, I discuss Morling’s thought on suffering as it relates to divine providence. …
G. H. Morling on further purposes of suffering Not all suffering in our world can be assigned a purpose; nor, arguably, should it be. One problem in searching for purposive explanations of suffering, in contrast to causative purposes, is that so much is left to the imagination. For example, we may identify clear evidence-based …
G. H. Morling on the purpose of suffering As we reflect on the Covid-19 pandemic, and the negative impact it is having on individuals and whole populations, some of us will be asking, “Why is this happening? What is it for? What purpose does it serve?” We are not so much interested in causative …
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