Pajama Pages » Liberalism http://www.pajamapages.com Media, Church, Culture Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:49:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 What harm could come from quoting Kierkegaard? http://www.pajamapages.com/what-harm-could-come-from-quoting-kierkegaard/ http://www.pajamapages.com/what-harm-could-come-from-quoting-kierkegaard/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:01:09 +0000 James Duncan http://www.jduncan.com/blog/?p=1081 A day or two ago I asked if NewSpring’s leaders might be inviting trouble by embracing Soren Kierkegaard’s liberalism.

Here’s an example from John Rich about where these ideas can lead.

What lesson should an allegedly Bible-believing Christian such as meself take away from such thoughts? Keep reading the Bible, believe in the bedrock truths of God and his creation. But don’t believe it to be the literal truth (as in, “this is being written on March 17, 2009″ is a literal truth). Know that we live in our time. God’s time is different, and unknown to us. And that God’s truths may not manifest themselves in our lifetimes.

God is the ultimate authority. His word may usually be discerned through the lens of the Bible. Usually; not always.

BCoop, is there anything here you disagree with? Is Rich misinterpreting your Kierkegaard quote? If he were to read your or Perry’s blogs, would he know any better?

]]> http://www.pajamapages.com/what-harm-could-come-from-quoting-kierkegaard/feed/ 0 Did someone put ignorance on the agenda? http://www.pajamapages.com/did-someone-put-ignorance-on-the-agenda/ http://www.pajamapages.com/did-someone-put-ignorance-on-the-agenda/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:17:53 +0000 James Duncan http://www.jduncan.com/blog/?p=1045 There’s a curious sequence of posts coming from NewSpring’s leaders this week.

Perry Noble led the way, boasting about how God prepared him to lead 10,000 people by making him a theological and ecclesiastical know nothing.

I did just about everything you could do in a church and in all of that God was preparing me to one day lead a church in which I could understand the people that worked with me rather than spout out theology and ideas and methodology in which I knew nothing about.

Now Brad Cooper is following up, excusing Christians who don’t care to learn or think well, so long as they do stuff. He condemns Christian scholarship by approvingly quoting Soren Kierkegaard. If you see something in the Bible, Cooper and Kierkegaard tell us, and if it makes sense to you, jump right in there and do it. Don’t think. Don’t discuss. Don’t learn. JUST DO! We and God won’t even worry about your intentions, Cooper promises us.

It’s no accident that Kierkegaard is regarded as the father of evangelical liberalism and Christian postmodernism. There is no real truth; what you think is true is good enough.

Anyone see any potential problems with that?

]]> http://www.pajamapages.com/did-someone-put-ignorance-on-the-agenda/feed/ 2 We have a brief window of honesty http://www.pajamapages.com/we-have-a-brief-window-of-honesty/ http://www.pajamapages.com/we-have-a-brief-window-of-honesty/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:03:21 +0000 James Duncan http://www.jduncan.com/blog/?p=533 One of the few upsides of the Democrats’ victories last fall is that, at least for a short period, they feel confident enough to tell us what they really think. Instead of posing as centrists, they’re confidently exposing themselves as big-government, anti-freedom leftists.

Here’s the latest example from John Kerry.

We dare not let you keep your own money because we can’t be sure you’ll spend it on the right things. That’s always been a tenet of liberal, leftist politics; it’s just rare that one of their own admits it.

HT: The Corner

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