Catholic and Protestant approaches to ethics

The question of how Christians ought to live has occupied believers since the earliest days of the church. The New Testament repeatedly links faith in Jesus Christ with transformed patterns of life, calling followers of the way of Jesus to love God, love their neighbours, pursue holiness, embody the character of Christ, and seek to …

Why the Cross? Divine Friendship and the Power of Justice

Ligita Ryliลกkytฤ—, Why the Cross? Divine Friendship and the Power of Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). 491pp. ISBN 9781009202763. Reviewed by Dr Rod Benson Published in the CUP series Current Issues in Theology, this book addresses the question, โ€œWhat does it mean for the cross of Christ to save?โ€ This book offers a fresh …

Who invented theology?

Welcome to The Theology Whisperer,ย  a series of short blog posts on theology and theological education. A fascinating sentence appears at the end of Genesis chapter four in the Hebrew Bible. After recording the birth of Enosh, Adamโ€™s grandson by Seth, we read that โ€œAt that time people began to call on the name of …

In the shadow of death

A sermon for Good Friday by Rod Benson Romans 5:6-8 Many Australians today identify Good Friday with nothing more than fish pie, or a long weekend, or beer, barbecues and beaches. But if you were to walk along Main Street and take a straw poll, and ask, โ€œWhat is Good Friday about?โ€ you might get …