tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710175078340795303.post7429082479591601127..comments2023-10-03T10:49:36.259-06:00Comments on Great are the Works of the Lord: "Church Shopping"Luke C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02384002232303567806noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710175078340795303.post-34506238535197405472007-01-12T15:47:00.000-07:002007-01-12T15:47:00.000-07:00Hey -
I found the review of "The End of the Churc...Hey -<br /><br />I found the review of "The End of the Church" interesting. Especially interesting was that it was strangely aligned with the thoughts of my favorite "crank", Harold Camping, of Family Radio (http://www.familyradio.org). Here is a link to his online book, "The End of the Church Age and After":<br /><br /><a>http://worldwide.familyradio.org/zusa/graphical/literature/church/church_contents.html</a>Calebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15123815144026576963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6710175078340795303.post-724309646401520842007-01-12T14:55:00.000-07:002007-01-12T14:55:00.000-07:00Luke,
Unfortunately this has to be a 'drive-by' ...Luke, <br /><br />Unfortunately this has to be a 'drive-by' comment - perhaps I will respond more fully after the job talk. In any case, just wanted to say that Ephraim Radner suggested in 'The End of the Church' that perhaps our response to the present divisions in the church should be not 'choice', but repentence. (I took it out from the library but have read almost none of it. It's not an easy read.)<br /><br />An excerpt from the following article: http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0101/articles/marshall.html<br /><br />'Ephraim Radner makes a remarkably learned and provocative (if at times convoluted) case for Christians not simply to consider, but to accept, that God means to bring down the divided Church. Only in the deliberate departure of the Spirit from the Church can we find an adequate explanation for the hardened durability of Christian division and the striking contentment of Christians with their shattered communal life. Modern ecumenism’s valiant attempt to overcome these divisions has yielded such meager results because of ecumenism’s own deep, if sometimes uneasy, complicity in the assumptions and logic of division.'<br /><br />Of course these abstract considerations leave open the question of 'how then shall we live', which each of us has to answer - and does answer - in practice. <br /><br />Hope all is well in Ohio.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com