On this site, you can read about, comment on and contribute to my ongoing reflections as I wrestle with questions about God, Faith, Life, The Bible, Church and Theology.
All in Paul
This is a copy of my Masters Dissertation: a labour of love and genuine exploration, a subject matter deeply close to my heart, and a notion that has become highly formative in my own spiritual formation…
Like many, I’ve developed a lot of opinions about authority in the church; many based on the church context I’ve grown up in and my reactions to how authority functioned within it. What I discovered in the process of writing this paper shifted my whole paradigm of church leadership…
The decision of the Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15 is a significant and highly contested passage which is often used to argue for certain ethical freedoms and prohibitions in the modern Church. In this paper I explore the nature of this enigmatic passage and argue for how it should and should not be interpreted and used by the Church today.
This essay formed part of my MA module on Paul. It was the starting point of my exploration into the work of Michael Gorman and the concept of Cruciformity. I can honestly say I’ve never been the same since writing this paper.
This essay represents my first academic foray into the subject of Justification by Faith and different 'perspectives’ on Paul. My thinking has grown and shifted a lot since then, but I still broadly agree that each of the interpretive traditions outlined here have something of value to contribute to people the reading of Paul.
