Bible, Church & Faith Matters

 

The Bible

Old Testament - the dark side

The Canon of Scripture and its making

Jesus - the hidden years 14-29 and after the crucifixion

 

Glimpses of Church History

1.   The First 200 Years	2.   Period   201- 400
3.   Period   400 - 750	4.   Period   750 - 900
5.   Period   900 – 1000	6.   Period 1000 – 1100
7.   Period 1100 – 1200	8.   Period 1200 – 1300
9.   Period 1300 – 1400	10. Period 1400 – 1492
11. Period 1492 – 1550	12. Period 1550 – 1600
13. Period 1600 – 1700	14. Period 1700 –1800
15. Period 1800 – 1878	16. Period 1878 - 1903 (Leo 13)
17. Period 1903 - 1939	18. Period 1939 - 1958 (Pius 12)

 

Church gets European, powerful & corrupt

Christianity gets hellenised-romanised

Papal pomp, power & corruption

Papal pomp, power & corruption (2)

Crusades, colonial backing, no salvation outside the church

 

(left) Computer generated likeness (suggesting Afro-Arab features).           

 

Usual Europeanised image of Jesus

  Was Jesus white?

 

 

Euro Theology flawed

Critique-1

Critique-2

 

Dogmas & Encyclicals - commentaries & critiques

- Pius IX's Dogma on Papal Infallibility (1870)

- How Leo XIII & other popes regarded non-Europeans

Leo XIII  (pictured)

 - On Socialism (1978)

 - Leo's Encyclicals: a critique

 

 

Pius XI - encyclicals: Casti Connubii (1930) & Quadragesimo Anno (1931)

John Paul II

- The Opus Dei Connection

- Liberating Poland and the Reagan connection

- On other religions

- Thoughts & platitudes 2002

- Thoughts & platitudes 2003

- Vatican concerns on the EU constitution 2003

Pope Benedict XVI
Cardinal Ratzinger becomes Pope

Vatican still thinking in Manichean terms

 

Catholic Social Teaching

CST -an Introduction
CST - eurocentric and alien to Asia
 

 

Church and Capitalism

 - Stan Lourdesamy 

  - Pius IX to Pius XII

  - John Paul II

  

Asian Perspectives

Theologians-top 5

Bible interpretation-1

Bible interpretation-2 (GSoares)

 

Church (UK)

1. Racism in the Catholic Church (Part I)
     Letter to England’s Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor (pictured left)

2. Racism in the Catholic Church (Part II)

3. Britain is no longer Christian

4. Letter to UK Bishops on BBC Panorama program

5. To the Cardinal on the occasion of Bishop Sentamu's elevation

 

Christian Right or Fundamentalists

1. Opus Dei

2. Christian Right - Intro 1

3. Christian Right - Intro 2

4. Christian & Jewish fundamentalists make a potent mix

 

Liberation Theology

Introduction

Liberation Theology 2

Liberation Theology - the future

 

Black Theology

Black Theology 1
Black Theology 2
Black Theology 3 
Black Theology 4

 

Assorted Issues

Mother Teresa - a darker side 

Church in Crisis 2002

 

 

 

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