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- Yeah, you don't hear that preached much in church, but that is as central to Christianity as it gets. The gospel Jesus preached was the "Gospel of the Kingdom." He proclaimed that...
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Last time I was talking about how Evangelicals are free to whip out their private beliefs at any time. But this individualism left me disillusioned with public individualism.
Evangelical Liberalism
So I, like many others, went searching for a faith that was not only public, but communal. And for many of my friends, [...] ... Continue reading »
Last time I was talking about how Evangelicals are free to whip out their private beliefs at any time. But this individualism left me disillusioned with public individualism.
Evangelical Liberalism
So I, like many others, went searching for a faith that was not only public, but communal. And for many of my friends, [...] ... Continue reading »
11 months ago
Are you making the case that taking faith public, or better, taking faith political, is wrong?
Both the Wallis crowd and the NAEers are equally out of line in this sense. The argument runs parallel to that of Libertarianism.
Yet, we continue to desire community. But we treat the church as if it were not enough. Like the man who will not be satisfied with his wife but must run about with mistresses, we desire connections with other people. We are merely promiscuous.
11 months ago
not so much that 'taking faith public' is wrong, but that it is exactly the wrong way of thinking about it. Rather, faith is always public, never needing to be "made public". This already being public is the community of faith, as I will argue in my last installment.