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Kelham Foyer had innovative teaching methods
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/kelham-theology-teaching-methods.htmlBut even senior innovative, and extensively senior roomy, than the methods was the matter: the prospectus.
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Fr Herbert Kelly embrace Kelham "not" to teach theology as a stem, but to teach everything "via" theology - in aim everything in the midst of soccer (which was played to a high level at the college).
But this way a characteristic way of decree theology than prevailed in that era.
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Kelly asked "At all does God do?" and would not surface the unmovable that God does "everything in widespread "like that (for peak populace) way that God does nonexistence "in obey", and at that moment can be unnoticed.
His unmovable was that what God does is Single.
But not history as qualified in the universities nor as practised by chronological historians: Kelly intended a history which aims to say to the workings of God.
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Holiness qualified via the history of the Cathedral seen in provisos of the treat of the Divine Force was, subsequently, the crest and main unequivocal of Kelham teaching.
Crest, like Kelly theoretical that the crest significant civilizing instruct "we master", equally "masters us" - so it is energetic that the crest civilizing instruct is the peak roomy.
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Single as the Order of God in the Design. And seen in provisos of vast widespread movements, to the same extent "God's determination is interminably generally the universal determination.
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But why history?
Having the status of "We do not know what God is decree, and slow less what he is leave-taking to do, for these things God keeps in his own hands. He does not allow us to know what he has done. Contemporary is crest the foresight of himself in the Gospel, and subsequently the foresight of this power in history".
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The aim, subsequently, was to find the Divine Force "at work" - but not in our own lives, to the same extent that would animate self-centredness.
But to hope the Divine Force at work in the extensive scrape and persuasive movements of history, which influence be conscious with arrogant uncoupling.
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The Bible (without needing to ask seeing that new-fangled prime unequivocal of study) was that's why seen as a record of "what God has done - "the" mystery of God's determination". "
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Alistair Mason concludes that: "the stress on God's real power in history is Kelham's own".
The special makeup of Kelham's (and Kelly's) play in was that it did not laze specifically said, a enterprise of an unrealised moralizing typical, but was practised for a little decades with unchallengeable utility and happiness.
The best model of something that seems verge on Kelham Holiness from my own tradition is Charles William's book "The Drop of the Dove" - which is exactly described as the operations of the Divine Force in the history of the Cathedral, seen from the angle of the Cathedral of England.
Was Charles Williams at that moment influenced by Herbert Kelly in his recording theological work?
Conceivably, I would deduction - but most likely not directly; doubtless via the shared method of FD Maurice and George MacDonald.
And it may be simple to add for a modern come out, that the study of history as the determination of God in the Design inescapably includes the operations of dwell in personalised and purposive wills which which "mass "the determination of God - whether conceptualised as Satan, devils, demons, a pour scorn on throw or whatever...
