Welcome to My Web Page.
Thank you so much for visiting!
This
web page is written
to introduce you to certain
wonderful, challenging, and important realities. I refer to meeting
the Lord Jesus face
to
face, knowing God, seeing God, hearing
God,
being baptized by the Holy Spirit, being healed
and delivered of evil spirits, entering the dark
nights, encountering the living power of Scripture
as God's Word written, being lifted into heaven by
the liturgy, and learning about the Kingdom. All these matters,
and many more, are
addressed here.
They are rendered as narrative in my novel, Face
to Face, and they are discussed theologically in
the essays. Therefore, I gladly invite the reader to read and
study these web pages.
How
does one "do" theology? Of course, theology
must be lived. At the intellectual level,
however, one could say that theology is done by
discerning the fundamental components of a
theological perspective and comparing these
constituent aspects and their wholes against each
other in light of the great biblical and theological
tradition. God not only
calls us to love him with all our heart and soul,
but also with all our minds. This means effort,
sustained effort. Christian truth is freely revealed
by God's mercy and grace, but it requires everything
within us to receive his revelation.
Therefore, let me ask my readers to pray and ponder
the things that are written here. Further, the Christian faith has been undermined, both from the left and the right. From the left, there is liberalism, a form of false teaching that has been around since Schleiermacher. This liberal heresy must be fought at every turn without quarter, for in the end, it betrays Jesus Christ as Lord. The errors on the right are serious as well: a narrow way of interpreting Scripture, a confusion between the Kingdom of God and the United States, and a lack of attention to how the Christian faith has been lived in the past. These matters are important, and therefore, I feel compelled to write.
The Vision of God Almighty
Finally,
there are things I love, and above all, I have
been captured by the vision of God. This great
vision, the Marriage Feast of the Lamb, the coming
of the New Jerusalem, was the goal of Western
civilization from Augustine until the eighteenth
century. After that, our society began increasingly
to pursue lesser ends. This has been a terrible loss
to our culture, and the loss haunts us on all sides.
Many years ago I came to sense this, and since it is
best seen when rendered, I wrote a novel to convey this reality in relationship
to the other fundamental realities we all encounter.
That novel is also included on this web site.Redistribution of Content
Finally, if you
would like to quote, print, or post any of my essays, feel free to
do so. My only request is that if you use or quote any of my material,
please reference my name, this site, and the relevant portion as
is customary.
Thank you for your consideration. Please email me if you have any
comments, questions, or suggestions.
May God Bless You Always,
The Rev. Robert J. Sanders, Ph.D.
rsanders.org@gmail.com
Links
Christ Church Anglican
Anglican Mission In America
VirtueOnline
Christian Classics
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