briefly this book, by a professor from drew university, says that seminaries have largely become bastions of non-Biblical thinking/teaching/practice(?!) but that there is a young group of men and women who are rejecting-challenging this by moving to ground their beliefs in a renewed study (and imitation?) of the church Fathers of the first five centuries focusing on their understanding of scripture. very enlightening..encouraging...hopeful.
9 without a story we do not know who we are.
10...speaking of current theology..'their inventions have been invented many times before and...were typically called heresies. ('heresy' has mostly disappeared today...)
..chesterton observed that the trouble with someone who does not believe in God is not that he will end up believing in nothing; it is, rather, that he will end up believing in anything.
11 ..the circus that is theology today...
33 ..an interloper who steals property must be caught and fairly charged as an expression of justice. secularization is such an interloper. we have witnessed the theft of church property by forces alien and inimical to the church. stolen property must be reclaimed. thieves must be brought to justice.
there are times when a counterthesis needs to be put sharply over against a prevailing thesis. if the countervailing argument is not put pungently against a harsh, insensitive taskmaster, it will be easily dismissed.
the rhetorical assignment under those circumstances is to enter in good humor the arena and strike telling blows. the plaintiff must sometimes make a case that refuses to be disregarded. if i hit had rhetorically, it is because i have seen innocent persons being hit much harder.
34..by liberated i mean those persons who are the sexual experimenters, the compulsive planners of others' lives, the canonical text disfigurers, and ultrafeminists (as distinguished from the great company of godly women..the liberated characteristically understand themselves to be freed from oppressive, traditional constraints of all sorts and shapes. liberated is not a term applied to them from outside their self-understanding, but a term they frequently apply to themselves. by liberated, they usually imply:
doctrinally imaginative
liturgically experimental
disciplinarily nonjudgmental
politically correct
multiculturally tolerant
morally broad minded
ethically situationist and above all
sexually lenient, permissive, uninhibited
...an engulfing attitude that we have been liberated from our classic christian past, from the patriarchalism of christian scriptures, from benighted jewish and christian traditions and from their oppressive social systems.
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