I'm a Christ Follower (Mac vs. PC Parody) Part 01
A Christian by any other name is still . . . just a Christian. However, as this video illustrates, it's much cooler to be a laid-back, elitist Christian than an uptight, dorky one.
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Hi Nate: As usual your thoughtful scratches call me to wakefulness. I've been in what seems like a long winter's nap brought on by the worst bout with respiratory infection I've encountered (I've been sick since before Thanksgiving). but now I'm on my second batch of antibiotics and finally am beginning to feel better.
I happened to read your blog after wading through some NT Wright articles and as you know he takes a somewhat different approach to such things. So forgive my criticism. I'm sure you've encountered people getting it all wrong by reading Wright before me. In his article on "Righteousness" from the New Dictionary of Theology, for example, he writes:
"The central biblical discussions of righteousness thus principally concern membership in the covenant and the behaviour appropriate to that membership. Since, however, these passages depend on a theology in which God is creator and judge of all the earth, and in which God’s people are to reflect God’s own character, it is not illegitimate to extrapolate from them to the ‘justice’ which God desires, and designs, for his world. The church is to be not only an example of God’s intended new humanity, but the means by which the eventual plan, including the establishment of world-wide justice, is to be put into effect. Lack of emphasis here in older theological writing, due sometimes to individualism and sometimes to a dualistic split between church and world, has led to a reaction (e.g. in some liberation theology) in which ‘justice’ as an abstract virtue has been elevated in an unbiblical manner (e.g. at the expense of mercy). This should not prevent a balanced orthodox view of world-wide justice from regaining, and retaining, its place in the church’s teaching and practice." You can find the whole article online at ntwrightpage.com/Wright_NDCT_Righteousness.htm
It seems good to me to be humble about what we may achieve by way of "justice" in the world but perhaps a bit off the mark to radically distinguish our attempts (when they are biblically informed and dependent on the power and direction of the Holy Spirit)from what God is doing in the world to establish His righteous Kingdom. (Col.1:15-20)
Maybe Wright is not so wrong, eh?
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