Despite the best efforts of the church fire alarm, we had a fruitful and thought-provoking second week at Café Theology looking at the theme from the second chapter of Michael Lloyd’s book, Café Theology, on the Fall.
If you couldn’t make it or would like to listen again, the talk for this week is up on the St Nic’s website, here.
We discussed a number of issues in our small groups and all together at the end. A number of good points were raised including: the doctrine of the Fall providing hope and an opportunity to respond to suffering; and biologically, death being natural and necessary – but not, Christians believe, ultimately the end … what else?
We spent a bit of time thinking about the position Michael Lloyd offers as an explanation of the Fall: the “Fall of the Angels Hypothesis”. Various aspects of this were challenged – particularly the scriptural basis. Here is one take on it; it would be interesting to hear others.
If you have any thoughts or comments, whether you were around on Monday or not, please feel free to share them below.
Café Theology, Newbury 