tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874293.post1872878175668440263..comments2023-10-21T12:02:06.956-04:00Comments on Qere Ketiv: Review of Pagan ChristianityRVWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119355195028123284noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8874293.post-6684691476728033072009-01-28T09:22:00.000-05:002009-01-28T09:22:00.000-05:00Russ,Thanks for taking the time to write a balance...Russ,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for taking the time to write a balanced and thoughtful review of Pagan Christianity. I have been involved in a couple of conversations with those in ministry who have read the book. In reverential tones they share with me where they think the church should now head, given their reading... I like Leonard Sweet, Shane Claiborne is a well intentioned guy, misguided theologically and I have enjoyed very much some of the writings of Hirsch...<BR/><BR/>The problem in part, I think, is that we all have strong areas of discontent in our relationship and perspective of the church, so we read... and when someone comes along that articulates something that ends up somewhere, remotely on the outer perimeter, from the epicenter of our universe-of-ideological-concern... we mate hastily with them intellectually. Surely the idea of perspective is more disciplined than that... <BR/><BR/>I am sometimes troubled when qualifications like "was never meant to be a stand alone book...". In other words, it is like they are saying: <BR/><BR/>"we want you to take seriously what we are discussing, but we don't want to be responsible for conveying any hard and fast conclusions that should become a rubric for everyone..."<BR/><BR/>The problems of the modern day contemporary church are legion... but strident voices that offer false panaceas, originating from a limited, indigenous and intellectual locale, are rarely helpful...Ricky... https://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com