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So my theme for my time in Germany, of Deep Church, comes from my PhD research, and my association with Kings College London (see www.deepchurch.org.uk).
I’m particularly keen to help connect academics with the concrete reality of church, and to help church leaders interact with the reflective and theological aspects that arise from the notions of ‘Deep Church’. In this post I want to suggest some aspects of what Deep Church means for me. Rather than reducing deep church to one way of being church I see it is about setting out principles that lie within the spirit of deep church. So below are a number of these principles in no particular order.
Deep Church as…
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In case you didn’t know you can download MP3 recording of any of the talks in the deep church lecture series from the Westminster Theological Centre website.
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Recently I attended the second Deep Church lecture of the term, with Justin Thacker discussing tolerance and political correctness. It was an interesting evening and one of many challenges. What was discussed raises several issues regarding our faith, and trying to tie them together was very hard. What I decided was to give the backbone of his arguments and then come to my own conclusions, based on what God was saying to me.Thacker began by talking about the most basic thing. What do we regard as tolerance? The dictionary definition is ‘to put up with, forbearance involving something you disagree with’.
But is that what tolerance means today? Or what it meant for Jesus?
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