“Truth”: I do not know who you are or where you are from. But I have to say this. As one who read Machen’s book many years ago, I have also now to conclude that it is seriously dated. It may have worked for many in the US between the World Wars and helped to explain certain movements post WW2 as well; but its usefulness in analysing the present is rather limited.
For example, the very first chapter of Oliver O’Donovan’s published version of his Sermons originally posted at Fulcrum, A Conversation Waiting to Begin, deals with the “Failure of the Liberal Paradigm”.
In other words, what we are most probably witnessing with TEC, as an institution, this decade is the logical working out of this “failure”, which makes them resort so often to raw power to bolster their position.
Meanwhile, the likes of those who support the Windsor process, as now embodied in the Ridley Draft of the Anglican Covenant, including the Archbishop of Canterbury and diverse others across the Communion, are quite simply “orthodox”. At least, any plain reading of this Covenant Draft should convince one of this!
So please may we have a little more discernment here folks ...
Thanks for all your scripture citations, “truth’; yet you and I both still have to ‘read’ such texts and indeed the entire Bible via some kind of interpretative grid or other. This is what it means to be human! An analogy: even a soup’s ingredients have to be placed into the pot in a particular way and cooked in a particular way. Alter any of these ways, and the soup tastes different in the end. Enjoy!
16 July 2009 at 4:08 pm
“Truth”: I do not know who you are or where you are from. But I have to say this. As one who read Machen’s book many years ago, I have also now to conclude that it is seriously dated. It may have worked for many in the US between the World Wars and helped to explain certain movements post WW2 as well; but its usefulness in analysing the present is rather limited.
For example, the very first chapter of Oliver O’Donovan’s published version of his Sermons originally posted at Fulcrum, A Conversation Waiting to Begin, deals with the “Failure of the Liberal Paradigm”.
In other words, what we are most probably witnessing with TEC, as an institution, this decade is the logical working out of this “failure”, which makes them resort so often to raw power to bolster their position.
Meanwhile, the likes of those who support the Windsor process, as now embodied in the Ridley Draft of the Anglican Covenant, including the Archbishop of Canterbury and diverse others across the Communion, are quite simply “orthodox”. At least, any plain reading of this Covenant Draft should convince one of this!
So please may we have a little more discernment here folks ...
21 July 2009 at 7:52 am
Thanks for all your scripture citations, “truth’; yet you and I both still have to ‘read’ such texts and indeed the entire Bible via some kind of interpretative grid or other. This is what it means to be human! An analogy: even a soup’s ingredients have to be placed into the pot in a particular way and cooked in a particular way. Alter any of these ways, and the soup tastes different in the end. Enjoy!