In the recent posts about global justice and the related microcosm issue of help for panhandlers, one of the points I have sought to make is that swell intentions are not even close to good enough. Here is another example of that principle, a little closer to home. In the latest Atlantic Monthly there is …
Like Contrasting Walking with Legs
Green Baggins has put up another post, this one working through a short article I wrote on pp. 7-8 of the FV issue of Credenda. Given the subject matter, this post will be very brief. Well, maybe not very brief, but comparatively brief. Man, look at it grow . . . Just two issues. The …
Just Seething With Latent Hostilities
We really need a substantive, book-length response to N.T. Wright on these global justice issues. Given his position of influence, because of his significant theological stature, because he grounds his proposals in the glorious basics of the gospel, and because of the real passion he brings to the issue, this matter is now squarely on …
Like Jesse James Robbing a Train
So this response should finish up my reactions to Lane’s first critique of the first article in the FV issue of Credenda. And in this last installment, I do have a few things to say, even though I don’t believe there is a great deal of disagreement at this point. On the question of introspection, …
First, Do No Harm
Rob Hadding poses a reasonable question here. My apologies for the techglitch (which we have not been able to solve yet) that keeps Rob from visiting us directly. The short form is that Rob is not sure Wright deserves the “bludgeoning” for those global justice pages that he sees me trying to administer. “Shouldn’t we …
Orders of Magnitude
Lane says that, although I offer some qualifications, when it comes to the history of doctrine, I am essentially a Hegelian. I would take issue with that description — here are the qualifications I gave. “The third issue can be illustrated by adapting something from Hegel’s playbook. His take on history was that a thesis …
Badly Informed Clerics
Now that I have finished Surprised by Hope, let me reiterate that it is an outstanding book, and just what the doctor ordered for all my conservative friends who are standing in the pond of dualism, up to their chins. But I should also say that I agree completely with the questions/concerns raised in the …
N.T. Wright’s Neo-Colonialism
It is not often I get to criticize a magnificent book, but I am about to do so. I am currently luxuriating in N.T. Wright’s Suprised by Hope, and the book addresses so many common mistakes that Christians make about the afterlife and the resurrection that it really is quite bracing. It is a fine …
Some Things Don’t Get Said
Lane’s next point concerns my statement of loyalty to my friends. “Fourthly, regarding Wilson’s loyalties. He states, ‘So my loyalties to my friends and felloow laborers in this reformational ministry have not budged, nor will they’ (pg. 4, 2nd column). This is really too bad. This means that Wilson will continue to stonewall for his …
Letting the Grease Cool Down
In this next section, I will quote Lane quoting me. “Secondly, a bit about the Golden Rule. Wilson states this: I have been misrepresented by FV critics time without number, and because I don’t want Schlissel or Lusk disavowing me for things I don’t really believe, I have no intention of doing it to them. …