Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: So here is an interesting thing. A number of weeks ago, during Canon's Christmas sale, the team pulled a quote from a new book of mine called The Covenant Household , and sent it out ...
“We start fussing, in a self-important kind of way, about the problems of extremes and excesses. Of course. There is a counterfeit boldness that might be called ‘worldview machismo.’ And there is a counterfeit humility that might be called ‘worldview effeminacy.’ But rebuking us all, there is a faith that wonders in a loud voice why the uncircumcised Philistines are being allowed to talk the way they do.”
The Cultural Mind, pp. 298-299
“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 ...
