Building a Theology of Celibacy and Friendship for the Church
As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. (C. S. Lewis)
As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. (C. S. Lewis)
In times of uncertainty and doubt, where do we focus our gaze? Do we look to God?
What if within the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings is where the power of his resurrection becomes the most real and the most powerful?
A key building block in our theology of the body is the recognition that our physical bodies are signs to the world as we embody God’s saving purposes and his holy love.
When they came to the place called Golgotha, they crucified Jesus, along with two revolutionaries: one on his right, the other on his left.
Jesus knew that the time had finally come—the hour when the Son of Man would be glorified.
The Pharisees tried to seize Jesus, as it seemed he was claiming to be divine and daring to speak of his own authority concerning the Law.
As seasoned fishermen, Jesus’ disciples knew enough to be afraid. But where was Jesus?
A proper theology of the body embraces the sacredness and sanctity of all our embodied existence and sees the eternal significance in each day.
The body celebrates that our physical bodies serve a redemptive purpose. They are the means through which God conveys his grace.
Before there were four written Gospels, there was the single oral telling of the good news. Ben Witherington III explores what that might have sounded like in written form.
Hear the story of Jesus’ baptism afresh from this imaginative account by Ben Witherington based on our canonical Gospels.