tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11834527.post1327312509429792223..comments2023-09-27T03:56:28.403-05:00Comments on la nouvelle théologie: The Real ‘Evangelical Disaster’ Fr. D.L. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048377154825646232noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11834527.post-43581870009530854192012-11-26T12:23:52.873-06:002012-11-26T12:23:52.873-06:00In article linked in the post below the author is ...In article linked in the post below the author is not dealing with the root causes of secularization, liberalism, relativism, and our culture of death. (Read Rachel Held Evans's article in its entirety.) Politics alone are not going to solve these problems. Evans goes deeper than that but not deep enough. It is an ontological problem, it is a sacramental problem. Until we recognize that we are not going to solve it. Read Hans Boersma who sits in the J.I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent College. He gets it as do other Protestant scholar friends of mine who are in the Haerwasian, Radical Orthodoxy, and Communio camps... Fr. D.L. Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17048377154825646232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11834527.post-16785677104395671152012-11-26T10:46:37.212-06:002012-11-26T10:46:37.212-06:00The engine of secularization is the abandoning of ...The engine of secularization is the abandoning of God's Word, and the reliance upon the 'self'...all or in part, for making one right with God.<br /><br />This can happen in Protestant churches and in the Catholic Church.<br /><br />We really ought resist those temptations and remain steadfast in faith, to what He has done, is doing, and will yet do, for us sinners.<br /><br />Thanks.Steve Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13251554325064300307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11834527.post-9926868524204378862012-11-26T10:04:30.628-06:002012-11-26T10:04:30.628-06:00The hardest thing for me to stomach is the undenia...The hardest thing for me to stomach is the undeniable fact that real homosexuality is a part of our existence. But I do not know how we can deny rights to a marriage to anyone. Did God deny it? Show me please where He denies it.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08962702604102517139noreply@blogger.com