Luke Johnson

Apr 22, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Luke Johnson |Brian Tabb |Benjamin L. Gladd |Nathan Sherman

AbstractWith present calls for inter-religious dialogue, Christianity must relate to major world religions in specific ways to distinguish its uniqueness in belief and practice. This article uses one of the five “magnetic points” of J. H. Bavinck, “I and salvation,” to demonstrate how Christianity carries out Hendrik Kraemer’s notion of “subversive fulfillment,” specifically with the prayer wheels of Tibetan Buddhism.

Sep 4, 2023 | catholicoutlook.org | Luke Johnson

Fr Tomas Halik will visit in the Parramatta diocese February 2024The risen Christ shows himself in the wounds of the world. This is the apparent paradox—actually, the heart of the good news—that organizes this set of thirteen reflections by the Czech priest Tomáš Halík.

Apr 12, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | Helene Stapinski |Luke Johnson |Paul Lauritzen |Santiago Ramos

In April 2018, my wife of thirty-eight years died from complications of ovarian cancer. During her three-year ordeal, it seemed that every twist and turn of the disease could be predicted by a lab value or framed in terms of a statistical probability. Right up until the end. In her last days, it was not blood work or vital signs that foretold her death. It was a dream. If that sounds strange, it is because our society mostly shuns death and consequently knows little about dying.