Showing papers in "Theology in 1971"

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Abstract: tive declaration ofJesus, disclosed to us now through the Church with its Bible, preaching, sacraments and prayer. Worship is essential to this life as the acknowledgment of the loving, redeeming Father who revealed his nature in Jesus, and as a directing of the whole intent of life towards him. The Christian understanding of freedom, innocent suffering, sin, salvation, heaven and hell requires a firm repudiation of the notion of desert as the measure of God's dealing with us \"God is not a moral mathematician\" and Mr Ward's achievement here will stiffen many whose belief wavers before secularist incredulity or who take refuge perhaps too easily in a universalism of some sort. If Mr Ward needs encouragement to write the more extended work on this at which he hints, he may receive it with assurance.