Setting Sail: Conversations before General Synod
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Spring 2000
The value and completion of theology
The term “theology” means “the science of God.” It was first used in ancient Greece, in the works of Plato and Aristotle, to distinguish a scientific from a mythological knowledge of God. That conception of theology, as a science, was inherited in ancient times by Jews and Muslims as well as by Christians. Thus, the [...]
read moreDeath by degrees
On a winter afternoon in Toronto not that long ago, a series of shots rang out in a high school parking lot and when the confusion had cleared, three young people lay in the snow with bullet wounds. Several days later, a newspaper sent a reporter out to the same schoolyard to ask some of [...]
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