tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30436844.post4074890539655810549..comments2024-03-24T09:31:01.300+00:00Comments on Shiny Ginger Thoughts: The pure originalDaniel Blanchehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15525641726889468099noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30436844.post-40337657399472967222017-10-10T16:50:41.503+01:002017-10-10T16:50:41.503+01:00Just read your post on the Barth stuff. Excellent ...Just read your post on the Barth stuff. Excellent and truly helpful. And thanks for your prayers. Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00368703899154056513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30436844.post-89307473554135985422017-10-07T08:35:18.008+01:002017-10-07T08:35:18.008+01:00From what I've read, Enns is most definitely i...From what I've read, Enns is most definitely in the 'progressive evangelical' camp - as you've said, 19th c liberalism in new clothes. A sad slide indeed, but one that I predict will be the story of mainstream (i.e. non-conservative identifying) evangelicalism over the next 10 years. The challenge will be for conservatives to appropriate some of Enns's insights re: the nature of Scripture's infallibility/inerrancy without going down his route. A re-discovery (or just plain discovery!) of something like Brevard Childs's approach might help - not that Childs had all the answers.<br /><br />Have you read Machen's excellent 'Christianity and Liberalism,' from 1932 btw? Things really haven't changed.<br /><br />In terms of the Barth article, I have to say I agree with the author. I've increasingly felt that, despite certain great insights, this confirms that Barth was a deeply establishment figure, his theology in its own bubble of cleverness which, confessing church aside, could only capitulate to modernity in praxis. I say that as someone who's only read most of the shorter works and only a few pages of the CD, so I may well be speaking out of ignorance. But would be interested on any reflections from you on the theology/life dislocation... and whether that has roots in the theology itself.<br /><br />Ben Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13320578490724889835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30436844.post-13653124225459142272017-10-05T21:07:28.791+01:002017-10-05T21:07:28.791+01:00I'm not honestly sure - that's part of the...I'm not honestly sure - that's part of the problem! Some of the results seem quite interesting, theologically, but sometimes (as here in this tweet) I think he sounds like a 19th century German liberal. Daniel Blanchehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15525641726889468099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30436844.post-31224608667487856182017-10-05T17:53:13.768+01:002017-10-05T17:53:13.768+01:00I know very little about Enns apart from his ousti...I know very little about Enns apart from his ousting from Westminster. Is Enns actually moving truth more in an 'eschatological direction' or in a more classically liberal 'human consensus' direction - the tweet seems ambiguous?<br />Greg BannisterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30436844.post-8906224981319020912017-10-05T17:02:33.738+01:002017-10-05T17:02:33.738+01:00Hi Luke, thanks for your comment. Yes, I've se...Hi Luke, thanks for your comment. Yes, I've seen the stuff about Barth - which is confirmation of a rumour that's been doing the rounds all along. I think I'd always assumed it was true, although it was still unpleasant reading the paper with all its detail. I might write something about it in the next few days. It is sad that someone who had helped so many to follow Jesus should harbour such an obvious moral failing. But still, as I said to someone else who asked about it, I can still follow the finger even if the person doing the pointing is not so great. <br /><br />Hope you're well - have seen your recent news on the Facebook. Will pray for tomorrow.<br /><br />Blessings! Daniel Blanchehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15525641726889468099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30436844.post-75094691129278052292017-10-05T13:10:27.788+01:002017-10-05T13:10:27.788+01:00Greetings and thanks, Daniel. Helpful thoughts. En...Greetings and thanks, Daniel. Helpful thoughts. Enns often leaves me feeling just as you've described: "Yes, I think I'm happy to go in this direction for a bit, but where does this train terminate?" <br />On a different note, or as some of your own poets have said: "Now for something completely different..." I had to pass this little post on about Barth that a theologian I've met here in the States wrote. I hate to say, its not altogether complementary of Karl Barth. But it was something I had never encountered. For you, being the Barthian scholar that you are, this may be old hat. But I never caught even a whisper of this: https://theecclesialcalvinist.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/why-i-still-dont-much-care-for-karl-barth/<br /><br />Let me know when you are headed over for a visit. I'd love to play host. Our classmate Matt Waldock from Manchester visited back in April and preached for us here at Wheatland Pres. in Lancaster. You've got the same standing invitation... Grace and Peace!Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00368703899154056513noreply@blogger.com