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"The One, The Three and The Many" by Colin Gunton (a non-review)

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The One, the Three and the Many by Colin E. Gunton My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was an interesting plunge into a whole different way of thinking theologically. And it was quite an intellectual stretch. It seems to me that Gunton was addressing the valuable critiques from Modernity and later Modernity (post-modernity) as well as it's deep short-falls. But the author also worked slowly into the material, massaging into the this work bit by bit, what he sees as the remedy to the critiques and the short-falls: a renewed and reworked theology of creation through the lens and relationship of the Trinity. This will impact and change our anthropology: our human-to-human, human-to-creation, human-to-God relations; "All things are what they are by being particulars constituted by many and various forms of relation. Relationality is thus the transcendental which allows us to learn something of what it is to say that all created people and things are marked by their coming from and re

Congregational Prayer - 9 November 2014 PM

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O LORD, you are our God; we will exalt you; we will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure (Isaiah 25.1). Almighty God, hasten the day when nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory (Psalm 102.15). For there is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours. Yes, bring all the nations that you have made to come and worship before you, O Lord, and to glorify your name – whether Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Maoist, Secularist – all nations! For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God (Psalm 86.8-10). Protect your Church in all lands; and deliver those people who are being terrorized and brutalized. Convert the bloodthirsty and heartless, and if they will not repent, then break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none (Psalm 10.15). O Lord, hear our prayer. For those re-elected and those new