Daily Archives: November 18, 2006

evil

I picked up Tom Wright’s book Evil and the Justice of God (IVP, 2006). I was struck by this idea:

“This… is a kind of response to the problem of evil. Postmodernism, in recognizing that we are all deeply flawed, aviods any return to a classic doctrine of original sin by claiming that humans have no fixed “identity” and hense no fixed responsibility. You can’t escape evil within postmodernity, but you can’t find anyone to take the blame either.”

Wright goes on to give an example from England when no one was held responsible for a rail accident becuase you can’t find anyone to take the blame either…

This seems to match up with the idea of plurality that I think seems to be a “doctrine” of postmodern thought.

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the smartest man who ever lived

I was reminded of a great truth tonight… that Jesus was not only compassionate, kind, God, forgiving, etc… Jesus was indeed the smartest man who ever lived… read this text carefully … so while I am not so smart, I do need to be as equipped as i can be to serve Him.

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Christian Apologetics

“religious pluralism is a normative thesis about diversity…”

“the bad news: no religion is true
the good news: it doesn’t matter; it will all turn out okay in the end”

“religious pluralism looks a lot like secularism w/ incense

if i am beginning to understand this issue… i am understanding that Jesus is a great model for the dialogue needed with postmodern friends, he was a great question asker, he acted with compassion…

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postmodernism addressed?

i have been thinking about postmodernism a lot lately… as you may have noted, i’ve even got a bunch of quotes on postmodernism in another blog…

tonight at the apologetics conference, while there has been almost no explicit discussion on postmodernism, there was good teaching on some of the ideas necessary for interacting with postmodern thinkers…

dialogue & living what we believe… these are essential…

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