Church -Israel

"Michael J. Vlach, Ph.D.
Introduction
Dispensationalists and non-dispensationalists disagree sharply on the issue of Israel. Dispensationalists maintain that the nation Israel will be saved and restored to a place of service to the nations. Non-dispensationalists, on the other hand, argue that the nation Israel will never again have a role as a nation in the plan of God. Important to this non-dispensational understanding of Israel is Christ’s role as “true Israel.” In sum, the non-dispensational argument goes like this: “Jesus is the complete fulfillment of Israel and, thus, is the ‘true Israel.’ As a result, all those who are ‘in Christ,’ whether Jew or Gentile, are now part of Israel. Thus, there is no future significance for the nation Israel.” Our purpose here is to show that this non-dispensational understanding of Christ as “true Israel” is not supported by Scripture. On the contrary, we will argue that Christ’s identity as the true Israel is the basis for national Israel’s restoration. So instead of leading to the end of national Israel’s significance in the plan of God, Christ’s identity as true Israel guarantees the nation Israel’s significance."

GLifeLine: Adrian Bird, M.M. Thomas - Theological sign posts for the Emergence of Dalit theology

GLifeLine: Adrian Bird, M.M. Thomas - Theological sign posts for the Emergence of Dalit theology

Shroro: The Syriac Orthodox Christian Digest

METHODOLOGICAL iSSUES

Shroro: The Syriac Orthodox Christian Digest

Anan taught that each individual could use simple rules of reason to derive the Law directly from the text of the Torah. Anan's movement (called Ananism) brought various subsects together and eventually was supplanted by Karaism, which differed from Anan's teachings in many respects but still held him in high regard.

Anan ben David - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anan ben David - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Abu Hanifah was accustomed in certain cases to take the words of the Qur'an not in their literal, but in a symbolical sense (Ta'awil); see also Qur'an#Levels of meaning and inward aspects of the Qur'an. Anan adopted a similar method with the Hebrew text of the Bible. Illustrations of this method are not infrequently, indeed, afforded by the Talmud itself. Thus he interpreted the prohibition of plowing on Sabbath (Ex. xxxiv. 21) as applying to marital intercourse; the word 'brothers' (aḥim, Deut. xxv. 5) in connection with the levirate marriage he interpreted as 'relatives,' etc. Anan's method of interpretation, however, was distinct from its Muslim counterpart in that he primarily built upon analogy of expressions, words (the rabbinical gezerah shawah), and single letters.
The earliest sources tell also of another doctrine borrowed by Anan from the Muslims; namely, the belief in the transmigration of the soul (metempsychosis). This doctrine, represented in Greek antiquity especially by Empedocles and the Pythagoreans, had always been widespread in India, and was encountered there by a Muslim etc. called the Rawendites, adopted by them, and in the middle of the eighth century was carried to Babylonia (Iraq). It is also found in Kabbalah. Anan is said to have written a special work in its defense"

2010-09-08 Dr. Raimon Panikkar Obituary Manmorama Sept 8, 2010 Harikrishna

BBC News - Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe

BBC News - Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe

Nine Ways Not to Talk about God, by Raimon Panikkar

Nine Ways Not to Talk about God, by Raimon Panikkar