Statement from the Global South Primates Steering Committee
Five Primates – Archbishops Peter Akinola, Greg Venables, Emmanuel Kolini, Mouneer Anis and John Chew – met together as the Global South Primates Steering Committee from 13th to 15th March 2008 in London. They have released a statement which can be read on the Church of Nigeria website.
(Photo of Archbishop Kolini via George Conger.)
Not Dead Yet: The Lost of Tomb of Jesus — one year later
When the symposium’s scholars returned home and picked up their copy of Time or switched on CNN, they got quite a shock. Deeply divided? That wasn’t the symposium that they had attended. … they couldn’t remember much of anyone arguing that the Talpiot Tomb belonged to Jesus of Nazareth. Why did CNN give all that air time to Jacobovici and none at all to the fifty-some experts taking part in the symposium? They were upset, to say the least. …
Read the rest of this article at the National Review. (with thanks to Stand Firm for the link. Image: Harper Collins.)
Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
To answer the question of Jesus’ resurrection from a historical standpoint, we must first determine what facts concerning the fate of Jesus of Nazareth can be credibly established on the basis of the evidence …
A useful summary by William Lane Craig on Baptist Press.
See also SBTS President Al Mohler’s column on “Must One Believe in the Resurrection to be a Christian?” –
Now, [Deepak Chopra, the New Age president of the Alliance for a New Humanity] writes as one who knows he is “someone outside the Christian faith,” but what makes his point so interesting is that it is almost precisely the argument made by liberal Protestant theology – that it is enough to believe that the Apostles experienced a special consciousness of the risen Christ.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…