tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post3098536305151067022..comments2024-03-29T06:58:28.383+13:00Comments on Anglican Down Under: Sacred, spiritual and sermonic links - Monday 15 September 2014Peter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-51197342898851123522014-09-16T05:24:53.607+12:002014-09-16T05:24:53.607+12:00Perhaps, Ron, but our prayer must be that Muslims ...Perhaps, Ron, but our prayer must be that Muslims come to faith in Jesus as God's Son.Peter Carrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3915617830446943975.post-11952413475254287562014-09-16T04:16:12.537+12:002014-09-16T04:16:12.537+12:00It's still early Monday morning here on the Ba...It's still early Monday morning here on the Bay in San Francisco, so I feel I can still make a comment, Peter, under this heading. On holiday, one has a bit more freedom to blog.<br /><br />I was struck on reading your side-bar link to Steve Bells' article on the lack of a Muslim Reformation. However, it would appear that - for Steve anyway - there is a delicate movement being made today, mostly among Muslim intellectuals, towards a revolution of humanitarian objectives by some moderns.<br /><br />Like with our Christian Reformation, it would appear that there is some sort of prospect of a hermeneutical revision of the static understanding of the Qoran - hitherto unheard of in the Muslim world.<br /><br />I guess, if one believes that the Holy Spirit might still be working among the Islamic descendants of Abram, then such a thing as Muslim Reformation could also be underway - helping Muslims to a more humane understanding of God at work in their world. <br /><br />If, as Steve suggests, the current violent upheaval in Islam might be a sign of the devolution of traditional Islam {like a ball of fire being doused by a mighty flood, perhaps}, then there may arise a more eirenic Faith movement - centred on the kenotic action of the Incarnate Son of God, as the focus of a new movement on the Holy Spirit 'upon ALL flesh'.<br /><br />Might this not then help to bring about the 'new heaven and the new earth' that has already been prophesied?Father Ron Smithhttp://kiwianglo.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com