BWJ 19. Ezekiel and the Grand Inquisitor - part 2

The Grand Inquisitor (2) on Miracles as a counterfeit for faith

Tony gives us a second talk on the Grand Inquisitor and his assault on God and the re-vitalised Christ. In this talk Tony explains why the Inquisitor sees the human desire for miracles as false religion – and something that denies God what he wants. God wants his presence on earth not spectacular invasions of normalcy – which miracles are. So they cannot be the staple diet of a faithful life. Instead we must recognise the sacred space of the natural world we live in… and this theme will take us right back to Ezekiel!

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BWJ 20. Ezekiel and the Ubiquitous God

BWJ 18. Ezekiel and the Grand Inquisitor

BWJ 17. Idolatry in the OT

BWJ 16. Ezekiel and the Angry God

BWJ 15. Introduction to Ezekiel

BWJ 14. Allegory; were the Patristics right or badly wrong?

BWJ 13. Bad ways (and better ways) to read Jeremiah

BWJ 12. Jesus, Jeremiah and Gehenna

BWJ 11. Jeremiah Buys a Field, part two - Hope

BWJ 10. Jeremiah Buys a Field, part one - Eschatology

BWJ 9. How the law of Moses failed to deliver what God wanted

BWJ 8. The Problems of Performance based Christianity – and the Covenant without Conditions

BWJ 7. Knowledge of God as the goal of life

BWJ 6. The worst translation in the Bible?

BWJ 5. What God Really Wants

BWJ 4. Jeremiah and Homer; a Surprising contrast

BWJ 3. Jeremiah and the Angry God?

BWJ 2. The Social Impacts of Evangelical Theology on modern America

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