Forgiveness is (or should be) a defining characteristic of the Christian life. The New Testament is not naïve enough to assume that relationships between Christians will always be smooth. It is full of exhortations to Christians to forgive or bear with one another.
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Forgiveness – Peter Orr & Rory Shiner
You: created and cared for – Adrian Russell
What makes you you? It’s the question of our time. Is it my genetics? Am I born this way? Or is it my upbringing, the way I was raised and taught? Are children a blank slate when they are born, waiting for society and experience to imprint on them? Or are their personality and choices already written into their genetic makeup?
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A new Bishop for the West
The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Glenn Davies, has announced he has appointed the Rev Gary Koo to be the next Bishop of Western Sydney.
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Thank God for ordinary pastors
The noble task of the ordinary Christian minister is essential for the future health of the churches which make up the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Yet challenges to the ordinary Christian ministry abound! The world around us seems to be spinning away from its Christian moorings at a rapid rate, the frailty of the flesh and the failure of leaders in the church saddens us all too regularly, and the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, as he has always done – crouching even at the rectory door.
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Cross-cultural head for Anglican Aid – AMS staff
A former missionary has been chosen to head the Archbishop of Sydney’s Anglican Aid following the retirement of founding CEO The Rev David Mansfield. The Rev Tim Swan will lead the organisation from April 2020.
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Reformation Day 2019 Announcement
To mark Reformation Day this year (2019), Moore Theological College is pleased to announce the acquisition of an important Martin Luther volume. This particular book is the sixth part of the great Wittenberg Reformer’s Books and Writings* published in 1557. This significance of Martin Luther cannot be overstated – his rediscovery of the biblical doctrine of justification by faith alone has changed hearts and lives across the globe for the last five hundred years.
This volume of his writings is also significant, for it comes from the press of Christian Rödinger in Jena, and is therefore part of one of the early efforts to publish an improved edition of Luther’s works (a multivolume project floated by Nicholas von Amsdorf and commissioned by Elector Frederick but left unfinished at Rödinger’s death).
The several sections of the volume which are heavily annotated attest to its importance and value from an early date, and its good condition opens up possibilities for future Reformation research. Indeed, we are very pleased to see this volume augment the wonderful Reformation treasures already held in the Donald Robinson Library.
Pictured: Mark Earngey (Lecturer in Christian Thought), Erin Mollenhauer (Archivist and Special Collections Librarian), Mark Thompson (Principal) [From L – R]
*Full title of the volume is:
Der Sechste Teil aller Buecher und Schrifften des thewren seligen Mans Gottes Doct. Martini Lutheri vom XXXIII Jar an bis uber den Anfang des XXXVIII Jars geschrieben und im Druck ausgegangen (Jena: Rödinger, 1557)
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