Monthly Archives: April 2007

“I found the Enlightenment promise that all things, including satisfaction and contentment, could be found ‘this side of the ceiling’ was a lie.” (Tullian Tchividjian, Younger p. 127)

“Frei proposes a radical solution. Suppose we do not start with the modern world. Suppose we start with the bibical world, and let those narratives decide what’s real, so that our lives have meaning to the extent that we fit them into the framework. That is, after all, the way a great many Christians- Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin- read the Bible for a long time. If we do that, then the truth of the biblical narratives does not depend on connecting them to some other real world. They describe the real world.” (William C. Placher, Unapologetic Theology: A Christian Voice in a Pluralistic Conversation)

“The salvation story centers on the incarnation and subsequent events. God entered our history and became incarnate in Jesus. In the union of the divine with the human in the person of Jesus Christ came the “lifting up of human nature into an everlasting communication with the divine life.”(Ibid., 86)” (Younger p. 86)

“True freedom, which is the choice to be in union with God and with God’s will, is now lost.” (Younger p.86)

“Today, young people come to church because “it stands for something.” But the gospel it stands for is presented as “story,” not a noncontradictory, rationally defended, logically consistent fact apprehended by cognitive aquiescence.” (Younger p.49)

most of my thinking hand posting has been over on a couple of my other blogs… my latest trip was to England which was a great trip… while on that trip I was carrying around The Younger Evangelicals by Robert Webber and I finished it. Some of the thoughts that struck me are gonna be posted over on another blog I write on… Just before picking up that book to finish it, I had finished another Webber book, The Divine Embrace, which I was so impacted by that I have made sure about ten different people have gotten a copy…