Month: April 2011

There is a reading popular at funerals and memorial services ascribed to Henry Scott Holland, once a canon of St Paul’s, which proclaims that ‘death is nothing at all I have only slipped away into the next room’.  That is clearly nonsense and is moreover a misquotation of Scott Holland. Christians sometimes think that death… Read more »

I spoke this morning about how the early Christians began to think about the meaning of the crucifixion; how they began to see it as ‘for us’, and so began to develop the Christian doctrine of the atonement. I want to continue by exploring how Christians since then have understood the cross, and how we… Read more »

I Cor.1.22-25: We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. I expect that… Read more »