Theology That Bites Back
“As a result, we treat the Biblical world and life view as though it were pie dough—but the farther we spread it, the thinner it gets. This universal but think application of Christ’s claims has the advantage of not provoking a hostile reaction from the world, and it enables us to feel good about our Kuyperian selves.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 298
Letter to the Editor: Re: Christ or Chemosh Doug, a simple thanks for your faithful stand and posts always seasoned with salt. You and I wouldn't agree on everything secondary (baptism, ...
Introduction: There will of course be a temptation for conservatives to regard this particular rooftop debacle as just one more "art fail," and we have kind of gotten used to all of those. Those ...
“The law must slay me before I can understand it. But the same thing is true of the Gospel.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 295
“Rather than have the Bible cut us up in pieces, we do the obvious, which is to cut the Bible up into pieces. We would rather do the dividing than be divided. So we call the pieces by different names—‘Oh, that’s in the Old Testament!’ Or we postulate a false dichotomy between law and Gospel.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 294
“The woman’s unborn child can be killed for having birth defects, but if he navigates his way past our abortion law and is successfully born, we will arrange special Olympics for him, handicapped parking in every lot in town, and access into every building in the nation. In a fever pitch of moral do-goodism, we insist that such individuals have a fundamental right to be able to access anything—except for their lives.”
The Cultural Mind, pp. 290-291+
Preamble Instead of an Introduction: Last week saw something of a commotion in the classical Christian world of education. Jessica Hooten Wilson published an article, and her revised version can be ...
“In other words, when it becomes apparent that we as a people are disregarding God’s law in some flagrant way, the next thing to watch for is some kind of moral crusade that will help compensate for it. In our nation today, a woman who is six months pregnant can do to a clinic and have the child terminated. Not only can she do this, but she can receive considerable societal support in doing so. The law of God is flagrantly insulted. But if that same woman stands on a busy street corner, visibly pregnant, and smokes herself a pack of cigarettes, she would bear the brunt of a lot of cold, icy stares. How dare she risk a low birth rate?”
The Cultural Mind, p. 290
Letter to the Editor: I'm a Canon+ Subscriber and I listen to your work frequently. Thank you for all you do. I have a C.S. Lewis question. How much did C.S. Lewis actually know about ...
