Tag: 2004
Befriending a vengeful God
The transcript of the interview about Atonement by the Australian broadcaster RN for its radio programme, Encounter. James Alison (interview): My real concern as a man of faith and as a theologian, it’s really about the linking of vengeance to God, the linking of violence to God, that God is a vengeful person whose vengeance needs…
Some thoughts on the Atonement
A transcript of the talk given in Brisbane, Australia, in August 2004. I’m going to try to defend a thesis with you: that Christianity is a priestly religion which understands that it is God’s overcoming of our violence by substituting himself for the victim of our typical sacrifices that opens up our being able to…
Challenging deceptive sacrificial notions in Christianity
The transcript of the Religion Report, a radio programme of an Australian broadcaster, RN Well British, gay, Catholic, priest theologian, James Alison delivered the Annual Morpeth Lecture last week for Newcastle University, and the cathedral, the Anglican Cathedral in Newcastle. He’s the author of a number of books, including ‘The Joy of Being Wrong’ and a…
Wrestling with God and men
A conversation with Steven Greenberg, a rabbi, presenting his book Wrestling with God and Men at the Jewish Book Week, London. James Alison: Good afternoon. I am here to present to you Rabbi Steve Greenberg who many of you will have seen in glorious celluloid for not his first but one of his first appearances…
Human sexuality… or ecclesial discourse?
A presentation for the Sarum Consultation on Human Sexuality and the Churches, 9-10 February 2004. Thank you very much for inviting me to come and share some thoughts with you today as part of this consultation. The thoughts are, I’m afraid, going to be somewhat disjointed, but I hope that one or other of them…
“But the Bible says…”? A Catholic reading of Romans 1
It is perfectly possible to read Romans 1 in such a way as to respect the integrity of the text, to show appreciation for, and agreement with, St Paul, and to show how Paul’s argument is an important step towards formulating a major doctrine of the Church, without saying or implying anything at all for…