Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: Many years ago, when I was still in college, I was taking some class or other and a debate arose in class, and in that discussion I was maintaining a biblical position about whatever it was. In response, a young woman wheeled on me and said, “You Christians are just like the Nazis. You …
[Speaking of Greg Boyd’s view of cultural engagement] “In other words, the kingdoms of this world are an ugly camel, and will always be an ugly camel. Moreover, this dichotomy flattens the world outside the Church, meaning that all camels are more or less camels, and are more or less equally ugly. But Boyd allows …
“If you are Calvinist in your soteriology and historically Reformed in your ecclesiology, then you need to think Christendom is a good thing . . . If anabaptist assumptions had not carried the day, affecting virtually everybody who looks at Church-state issues, we would recognize this move [denying Christendom] as being as anachronistic as a …
“Someone really does need to tell secularist America that her gods are genuinely pathetic. And currently, the Muslims are doing this because the Christians won’t. And the Christians who won’t do this are not so much in need of a different kind of theology as they are in need of a different kind of spine” …
This is just a very brief comment on the Alabama election. There will no doubt be other things to say, but it would be best to let all the pieces fall out of the sky first. The most important issue for me is not so much whether Jones was elected or Moore, but rather what …
“Creating a religion of man is not the same thing as abandoning religion” (Empires of Dirt, p. 65).
So here we are. Below are some of the letters I have received, along with my responses. Pardon our dust and all that. The comments are enabled for this post only, and so feel free to interact. Consider this Open Thread Tuesday, with perhaps the occasional Troll Tuesday. But please mind your Ps and Qs, …
“I give way to no one in my love for my country, my nation, and my people. But it is a nation, for pity’s sake, not a god. It is a country, a fine place to shoot off firecrackers and eat hot dogs on the Fourth. But if you want me to trot out divine …
So all eyes will be on Alabama because of the senatorial election tomorrow. And why not? 2017 has not really been gaudy enough to date, and so I think it should try to go out with a bang. For those Christians in Alabama who have a functioning conscience, and who have to decide what to …
