Martin Luther on revelation

This quote comes from McGrath’s book A Passion for Truth. He attributes this to Martin Luther. McGrath drawn the distinction between the notion of revelation from God and a revelation of God. This distinction is best illustrated by how Christian and Islam regard their holy book. In Qur’an, the passage is understood to [...]

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Who are the evangelicals?

Long ago I used to think that there are only two kinds of Christianity, these are Evangelical and Catholic (both with capital letters). If a particular group or denomination does not belong to either of these kind, then they are considered as cult. This categorization is rather reasonable because I was converted to an [...]

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Email from blog reader

Lately, I have been receiving emails from people who read my blog and most of them found this blog through Google referral. It is really a delight to hear from people who are total strangers but willing to become virtual friends. One email is from the webmaster of SiamPinoy.Com who have been living in the [...]

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7th Asian Baptist Congress 2007

I want to attend this year 7th Asian Baptist Congress for two reasons. First, I was able to attend the last Congress five years ago which was held in the Philippines. Even, then I couldn’t afford the fees, I found an ingenuous way to attend. I volunteered as staff of the security committee. Although I [...]

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Praise God for the rain!

After living in haze for almost a month, I long badly for the rain to fall. I heard thunders just before I went to bed last night, hoping that it would rain the whole night while I was sleeping… and it did.
I woke up this morning listening to the soft trickle of rain that sounds [...]

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Theology according to Gustavo Gutierrez

Our understanding of Latin American brand of liberation theology will be elucidated more if we will know Gutierrez concept of theology. The excerpts below can be found in his work entitled Liberation Theology: A Documentary History. Here Gutierrez develops the main ideas for his theological vision in the years to come. This is the seed [...]

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Prayer Update

We thank our God every time we remember you. In all our prayers for all of you, we always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until [...]

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Living in haze

One dark night while my wife and I were riding our motorcycle in the highway, my wife saw blazing fires in the mountains of Tachilek, a Myanmar town just across the border. She kept telling me to look at the sight, but I could not risk taking a glance and take away my eyes off [...]

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Gustavo Gutierrez and hope

I wonder why I haven’t read any of Gustavo Gutierrez writings before. As far as I can remember, we were never given any reading assignments from his works when I was still at the seminary. He rightly deserves to be named as the “father of liberation” theology. Other liberation theologians owe their thoughts from him. [...]

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The Lost Tomb of Jesus

I don’t know how Filipinos would react to James Cameron’s TV film entitled The Lost Tomb of Jesus. I hope they would dismiss it as just another money-making scheme by some greedy business people. I want to quote here what Professor Amos Kloner an Israeli Archaeologist said about the TV film.
It makes a great [...]

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