荷蘭教會確認
無神論牧師未違教規可續牧職（2月24日消息）
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http://christiantimes.org.hk/Common/Reader/News/ShowNews.jsp?Nid=58115&Pid=5&Version=0&Cid=220&Charset=big5_hkscs在荷蘭爭議多年的「無神論牧師」事件，最近正式結案，教會將不對該位認為「神不存在」的牧師作任何紀律處分，並容許他繼續擔任牧職。
該位牧師名叫軒迪斯（Klaas Hendrikse），其所屬教區...的特別委員會指...：「他的說法...在
自由派信仰傳統中可以找到，這傳統
是教會的一部分。」委員會又引述教友大會在另一場合作出的決議：教會內應有更多關於不同信仰傳統的信仰討論...
有關爭議源於軒迪斯在Ｏ七年出版《相信一位不存在的神──無神論牧師的見證》一書，內容講到他認為「相信神」和「相信神存在」是兩個概念，他贊同前者、反對後者，認為神雖然不存在，但卻是可以帶來關係轉變的「事情」。Ｏ六年荷蘭一項調查顯示，當地有
六分之一教牧懷疑甚至不相信神存在。
KLAAS HENDRIKSE: Atheist believerhttp://online.worldmag.com/tag/klaas-hendrikse/...In the Netherlands, this book about God’s existence (or nonexistence, rather) hit the bestsellers list, too. The title is full of paradoxes:
Believing in a God Who Does Not Exist: Manifesto of an Atheist Pastor. So is the author: Klaas Hendrikse, a Dutch Protestant pastor for over 20 years, and an avowed atheist.
Hendrikse rejects the idea of God’s existence but embraces the language of religion, using the word God to refer to relationships between human beings. “
God is for me not a being, but a word for what can happen between people,” Hendrikse writes. “Someone says to you, for example, ‘I will not abandon you’ and then makes those words come true. It would be perfectly alright to call that [relationship] God.” ...
Alex's comment: Hendrikse's is a good theological attempt to reconcile the tension between Christian faith and the lack of evidence for God as a being. Thoughtful and honest modern Judeo-Christian rabbi and ministers have to face and struggle with this fundamental tension at the heart of the ancient monotheistic religions. If the definition of a Christian is a follower of the ethics of Jesus, an atheistic Christian (one who does not believe that God exists yet follows the ethics of Jesus) becomes entirely possible.
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