RSSEntries from April 2007
Aliens and Exiles
We have likely exhausted A Secular Faith so I will make a final post that returns to the theme of my first. I am concerned that Christian involvement in politics distracts believers from their true and ultimate home. When we become so concerned about moral decline or social disorder in the United States [...]
Love as Social Authority
Darryl wrote: “I like Caleb’s point about love as a social ethic. It sounds far more Christian to me than talk of power, might, the state, legislation, and kingship. But if I didn’t know Caleb better, I’d also think it borders on Hallmarkian abstraction. That is, it sounds like “love will find a way.†I [...]
A Glorious Image
So far, our consideration of the corporate responsibility of nations to confess Jesus Christ has focused on the Old Testament. Critics will say that this is the Achilles heal of the Covenanter position. Sure the Old Testament has a great deal to say about nations submitting to God’s Kingly rule, but that is, [...]
The Elephant in the Room
This discussion has been nice and edifying in its own way, but it might be good at this point to just cut to the brass tacks. In the discussion on Christian liberty below, the question of abortion played a central role. This is not just because abortion is the quintessential moral issue of [...]
Bonfire of the Extremities: Are kidney stones spiritual?
Or, ‘On the Perils of Life Lived on the Blurry Border Betwixt Body and Soul’
Or, ‘How Fr. Jape learned that to pass water on oneself is oft times a surer token of grace demanding that praises be rendered to our Father than all the pronouncements of wisdom that pass as gas from the mouths (or [...]
Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation and Religion
We used to have the trinity of race, class and gender in the social sciences. Somewhere along the way we dropped class and added sexual orientation. The idea was that these aspects of human existence are essential to one’s identity — everything you see as a woman is colored by estrogen or something [...]
Can a king acknowledge the facts?
At last! I’ve managed my way through the site technology to post! (My incompetence with “logging on” to this site has heretofore hindered my input, but I’ve been enjoying the discussion even if inept at posting!)
I have a rather basic question for which I’d be interested in a “Hartian response”. But first, let me underscore [...]
An uncomfortable spiritual aspect of politics?
While fearing that I will be called a kook, I think it is important to raise a question that has not been discussed.
Is there an uncomfortable spiritual diminsion to politics that has not been noted? The book of Revelation speaks of the Beast (at least one of them) as a civil power under [...]
The Keys to the Expansive Kingdom
Several comments have registered discomfort with my (and the WCF’s) narrow construction of the kingdom of Christ. Some in fact have argued that the kingdom extends beyond the church.
I wonder if those who make such claims have considered what this view does to the doctrine of the keys to the kingdom. [...]