Comments on: Holy Ghost Power

By: Robert Cheeks

Robert Cheeks — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:31:20 +0000

i really don’t think the message of the Gospel is injured by any professing Christian who engages the Word in obedience and love.

I do agree with the potential problem related to the gnostic movements inherent in Christianity with the caveat that we’ve been in ‘end times’ since the Golgotha event, and no one knows ‘when’

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:08:10 +0000

I think what a lot of the low-churchers get right is the notion that the basic message of the Gospel is a simple one, available (especially) to fishermen, tax collectors, etc. Excessive emphasis on the individual interpretation of Scripture will of course mean that much of the profundity of the message is often lost.

Many of the “heresies” widespread in low-churches, such as the gnosticism of the “left-behind” dispensationalists, have unfortunate consequences for the conduct of many believers, but I doubt this bad, I’ll Fly Away theology will be held against them when the time comes for them to learn it isn’t true. Plus, “I’ll Fly Away” is fun to sing.

By: Peter Lawler

Peter Lawler — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:05:12 +0000

There’s no irony here at all. I mean what I say in genuine appreciation. It’s a very pro-southern post.

By: Robert Cheeks

Robert Cheeks — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:08:56 +0000

I am guilty of not appreciating PoMoCon irony. However, your bias swamps these series of thoughts while projecting, what appears to be a deep antipathy toward the poor, white, Southerner.
Perhaps the irony is that it also appears you, as a high churchman, are involved in a deeply personal inquiry regarding the righteousness of the Pentecostal/Evangelical. On the one hand your perfervid anti-Southernism stands in constrast with your appreciation of the spiritually alluring nature of the fundamentalists and their love, and sweet surrender to the Word; so primitive, so first century.
Or, perhaps. the irony is the method of worship between the Southern Blacks and Whites, at least those of the Pentecostal perspective, is so strikingly similar.

By: Peter Lawler

Peter Lawler — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:28:14 +0000

I’m getting to the Declaration. That is an interesting line, but it does read like mission impossible.

By: CJ Wolfe

CJ Wolfe — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:45:30 +0000

Gary Gutting, of the Notre Dame philosophy dpt, recently did an article in the NYT that I think is pointing to an “American exceptionalism” (well-understood) too. He grounds it in the aspirations of the Declaration and the “animating ideal of American patriotism” though: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/is-our-patriotism-moral/

My favorite line: “We are a MacIntyrean community that is still trying to live out a modern morality that seeks the freedom of everyone.”