Comments on: A book I’m going to have to read

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:35:43 +0000

There’s allot to be said for simply getting back to the Gospel. For some reason it seems too hard for some people

By: catfantastic

catfantastic — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:11:24 +0000

Heaven as a present dimension to life in the here and now works for me. Joseph Campbell said that the apocalypse is a private one: the world is ending and a new one is being born for someone all the time. I’m aware that Campbell is problematic in a few ways, but I do like that observation, and I think that heaven can work the same way.

By: Jules

Jules — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:17:39 +0000

There are indeed some out there, but they tend not to have the novelty of attracting those with itching ears. It’s getting increasingly murky out there, and the old assumptions that all evangelicals are fundamentally sound no longer hold water. I tend to stick with the ones preaching the good oldfashioned Gospel message, even though I disagree with the non-charismatic ones on the gifts issue. There’s enough strong meat in that to keep me occupied for the rest of my time here.

By: Kathi

Kathi — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:18:40 +0000

Bah. Where are all the GOOD guys?

By: Jules

Jules — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:09:11 +0000

NT Wright is one who denies that Christ’s righteousness is in any way imputed to us by way of the cross. John Piper has been involved in a gracious critique of his views, JI Packer has spoken out too, and the post-modern Steve Chalke found support in Wright’s work for his own view of the penal substitutionary atonement as ‘cosmic child abuse.’ It was such a hoohaa that the Evangelical Alliance got involved in 2005. Be careful with this one, Kathi, and keep your discernment switched on if you get it – he goes out of his way to subtly undermine the core of the Gospel, as if he’s found the ‘secret’ of the Gospel that the church has fudged for all of its history. He’s not wrong on everything but there’s enough there to make me personally decide to keep clear. Check out Adrian Warnock’s blog from Feb 07 about this.