articles by Stephen Curkpatrick

Some issues for contemporary faith	Scripture and interpretation
Robinson Crusoe: A parable of modernity	A word in time
Firewalls and faith	The word that speaks today
Being here and not there	Scripture's past, present and future
Reality, rhetoric and constructed faith	Time shuddderrrs
Is God in two minds about us?	Alice and apocalypse
Penguins, people and the word	Myth busting by apocalypse
Relativity, perspective and truth	... things into which angels long to look
Human distinction within creation	Parables and the value of words
"You certainly will not die"	Everything hinges on ears
What is freedom?	Seeing otherwise than what is seen
At the centre of reality	Advent and time between
Reflections in a hall of mirrors	Believing in God or hearing the word of God?
Hearing with the h(ear)t	Has the word of God failed?
Creation, idolatry and the gospel of God	The word that is near
Between relativity and absolutes	Why Christian Scripture is Christian Scripture
The "albatross syndrome"	The voice of God and hearing ourselves speak
Believing in believing	Scripture: a phenomenon of excess
Who is my "other"?	Suspicious underwriting and Christian Scripture
Wet fish, culture and shipwreck	Was Jesus racist and sexist?
Cultural aspirations, myopia and theology	Biblical banditry in our time
Our first intelligence	God speaks today
Making a virtue of doubt	Who can read Scripture?
Religion, reiteration and God with us
To hear is to see	Christian faith and religion
Lord of the between	Faith that refuses to be relative
The Lord's Prayer	Between, sacred, secular and gospel
Treasure that is no treasure	Religion, humanity and Christian testimony
The world that is passing away	Is religion relevant to the gospel?
The good within hearing	Christian faith and religion
	"God loves everybody"
Making a difference in the world	Suffering that diminishes suffering
A unique vocation in the world	Religion, tribal identity and grace
Making a difference in the world	Abraham and “three monotheist siblings”
Capillaries of grace and truth	Religion, the gospel and humanity
Whose criteria for seeing the Lord?	God without gospel
A reality surpassing calculation	The sibling of humanity
Politics and the reign of God	Cynicism, alumni and attentiveness
A kingdom not from this world	Prattling a way to God
Prophets, grace and social transformation	God as otherwise and intimate in Christ
Flowers fall but the word endures	Groping after God
Grace beyond binary enmity	Who wants religious relativity?
Christian testimony and the state of the state	Pentecost: something new under the sun
	Fastened down or called forward?
Christology	The jigsaw puzzle of religion
Christianity with minimal Christology
Jesus and Peter Pan	The testimony of Christian theology
Jesus without Christ	A twofold "Amen"
Christ without Jesus	Parables and time as gift
Parables and a strange paradox	Time and its punctuation
Theism, atheism and Christ	Time, perspective and judgment
Re-crucifying Jesus	Beauty, creation, glory and grace
“I Am” and grace upon grace	God of the personal
The scandal of particularity	A word beyond our conjuring
Jesus between Paul and Mark	Crucial hinges in Christian witness
Starry heavens above and the moral law within	What is the purpose of Christian theology?
Time, death, incarnation and grace	Accents of faith
The Mandela option	The good I would do, I do not do ...
Christ and the crisis of time	Parables between good and evil
No other God is given	A justified existence
Christ the word of life	Pharisees were just like us
Without a face for the face of God	"My rights" or God's grace?
In the belly of a whale	The freedom to be free
Jesus displaced by a comma	The freedom to will what has been chosen
	On whom God will have mercy
Other articles	God who calls to be things that are not
Putting the world right	The gospel of God
Fighting against the Spirit	Faith as gift and response
"Deliver us from evil"	Faith within the phenomenon of excess
Choosing death or life	Credit, credibility and gift
The stone that causes stumbling	The comedy of faith
Easter and remembrance of things called to be	Imagination
Evil and Easter	Theology: testimony to Christ the wisdom of God
An economy otherwise than economy	What are humans that you consider them?
God, distinction and qualitative possibilities	Reality is relational
Shipwreck and harbour, church and empire	Time relative to grace
The scene of testimony	Tea leaves, time and Christian identity
Light beyond light	A story of joyous discontinuities
Seeing the invisible	Theology, the word and reality of God
Spirit as the mystery of Jesus in Luke	Reasons that reason does not know
Seed and harvest
	Churches of Christ identity
	Anticipating Churches of Christ identity
	What do we mean by Christian unity?
	Churches of Christ: What is our future?
	The Great Communion
	Haunted by statistics?
	First words and a clear message
	Distinctiveness and distinctions
	Declaration and Address
	The communion of saints
	The mask of hairesis