by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
The recent spate of natural disasters and the serious threat of the avian flu pandemic have led some Christians to think that perhaps we are living in the period when the predictions of Jesus in Matthew 24 are being fulfilled. Even the media is beginning to speak of...
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
The phrase ‘sign of the cross’ refers to various liturgical or devotional acts which trace the two lines intersecting at right angles, indicating symbolically the figure of Jesus’ cross. For evangelical Protestants, whose devotional and liturgical experience does not...
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
Although significant progress is being made in the interaction between science and Christianity in this century, there remains a residual hostility between them that can be traced to the nineteenth century. When modern science as we know it first appeared in...
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
The separation of religion from politics, resulting in the notion of ‘private religion’, is the outcome of the secularism associated with the 18th century European Enlightenment. Before that time, religion was always a matter for the whole community, and never just...
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994), ‘All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to...
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
MUCH of the confusion with the practice of prophecy in the contemporary church has to do with a misunderstanding of what the New Testament means by the term. It is not possible to provide a full discussion on prophecy in the limited compass of this article. What I...
