Archive for the ‘Metavista’ Category

Engaging with the economic crisis

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Free market capitalism has so shaped our imagination that we have come to define human thriving in purely economic terms. As free market ideology fails, there is an opportunity for the church to step up with a new definition of what it is to be human and to live well.

Alan Roxburgh of Allelon replies to Colin Greene’s thoughts on the economic crisis.

Read the full post on the Metavista blog.

The theology of the financial crisis

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Rev Dr Colin Greene, head of theology and mission at SGM Lifewords, reflects on the current financial crisis over on the Metavista blog.

In a wonderfully satirical article written for the July edition of Prospect magazine, Julian Gough likens the global financial crisis of the last few months to the equally calamitous events we read about in the book of Exodus. When Moses walked into the pharaoh’s court with an ultimatum that said the enslaved Israelites were just about to go on a God directed walkabout, the royal court had no idea that their great and revered military and economic empire was just about to lurch into its own version of financial meltdown.

Read the full article…

Colin Greene interview on the Metavista blog

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Colin Greene, theologian in residence at SGM Lifewords and co-author of ‘Metavista: Bible, Church and Mission in an age of Imagination‘, was recently interviewed by Paul Fromont. The conversation takes in the place of the Bible, the role of the church, and the nature of mission. All fascinating stuff, and here to read and discuss on the Metavista blog.

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