Hey friends,
How much can one person think about? From time to time some of you might be interested in knowing what kinds of subjects are running through my mind.
Some of that might even be useful from time to time.
Today for instance, I am thinking about how people relate to Christianity. The classical liberal approach to Christianity was to make the story of the Bible reasonable in our culture. People still hunger for that apparently. They want to know about the pay-off for being a Christian. They also what to know of Christianity makes sense. Many are suspicious that it does not.
From Hans Frei – a theologian from Yale:
“The Bible’s claim to truth is not only far more urgent than Homer’s, it is tyrannical – it excludes all other claims. The world of the Scripture stories is not satisfied with claiming to be a historically true reality-- it insists that it is the only real world, is destined for autocracy. All other scenes, issues, and ordinances have no right to appear independently of it, and it is promised that all of them, the history of all mankind, will be given their due place within its frame, will be subordinated to it. The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us, that they may please us and enchant us --they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.”
What do you think of that?
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