By The Rev. Richard Carter on September 1, 2000
It is five-thirty in the morning. A bell made from a gas cylinder is rung. In the darkness over 100 young men, aged between 18 and 35, wake up, get up from their mats and prepare for prayer. In the chapel they kneel in silence. The sun is rising and light streams through the window [...]
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By the Rev. Dr. Robert Crouse on May 1, 2000
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 [...]
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By The Rev. Dr. Paul Gibson on May 1, 1999
There is a story that Beethoven once played a newly composed sonata for a friend. When he had finished, the friend asked, What does it mean? Beethoven sat down at the piano and played the sonata all over again.
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