A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit and the way in which the material world is both celebrated and renewed through their work. The Jewish basis for the early Christian patterns of belief and behavior is clear. It is important that God's people are embodied, because God made this world and has no intention of abandoning it. The material of creation is a vessel made to be filled with God's new life and glory, even though the transformation may involve suffering, persecution, and martyrdom.

I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.

I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.

think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.