Theology That Bites Back
Dear Darla, So in my last letter, I concluded with a reference to you meeting a genuine prospect, and I believe I even used the word “eventually.” And now your mother has informed my wife that ...
Letter to the Editor: This is in reference to your blog, Crossway at a Crossroads. I also posted this on your Youtube site. Doug, you impugn Carl Trueman for (paraphrased) "analyzing Rousseau ...
“Because the possibility of any kind of creedal discipline is negligible in our day, those who have abandoned the Gospel are now openly seeking to make their distinctive into negotiable items and want to be held by all as being ‘within the pale.’ Thus, we do not have to agree with them, but we do have to agree to disagree, and to do so as fellow . . . evangelicals. They do not resist disagreement; in fact, they welcome it. But the disagreement must come in the form of continuing dialogue, and not in the form of showing them the door.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 117
Introduction: So, at last week’s Grace Agenda, we concluded the event with a giant Block Party. The evening was fabulous, just like last year, and one of the crowning blessings for us this time around was that our goings-on were surveilled by the FBI. It is a dangerous world out there, and when people start …
“If a man wants a garden full of weeds, he does not need to do a thing. And if a church wants its lampstand removed, in a fallen world, all that is necessary is a little more standing around”
The Cultural Mind, p. 116
“Christians are people of the Word, and as a result they are people of words. We love the Truth, and this is why we must necessarily love truths. The flip side of this is that when a love for the Lord Jesus declines, one of the first places it manifests itself is in an obvious contempt for words. Words become little lumps of neutral clay on which a dishonest heart can exercise its creativity. But the real source of this rebellion in the little things, and the final direction of it, is hostility to the ultimate Word”
The Cultural Mind, p. 115
“And so the Constitution must be kept around to provide the smell of a hoary antiquity, while a relativistic hermeneutic is slapped on to provide judges with the untrammeled liberty of doing whatever they want.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 113
Dear Darla, I want to spend at least a little bit of time talking about the nature of the differences between men and women. This is important because we have something of an optical illusion going, and it runs in both directions. If you were to travel to a foreign land, but one suitably exotic, …
“Hermeneutics, the art and science of interpretation, sounds like a horribly dusty affair. And, of course, some have handled the subject along those lines. That is not how it should be; when the question of how a text is to be interpreted arises, we should feel a leaden weight in the gut and adrenaline in the veins, as men feel before a battle.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 111
