Random semi-theological thoughts February 14, 2008
Posted by Anya in : I won't keep things purposely vague , add a commentI’ve been listening — slowly — to lectures from The White Horse Inn at the recommendation (or command) of Ben B. They’re very Reformed. 
So here you may have the benefits of most of my thoughts on the whole grand two which I’ve listened to yet.
(Warning, this is probably going to be a rather boring post. Unless you want to go listen to the lectures, and then give me your thoughts. :))
Crossless Christianity
-very interesting point about there not being a national church in America
- more doctrine, less worldview is needed? Or more of how they work together? right doctrine –> right worldview –> right living
- Christ is both foolishness and a stumbling block to Americans — too true!
-Making me think of The Passion of Christ by John Piper
-Messy definition of propitiation after they so earnestly made the point that Christ offered His life willing; He was not a “victim”.
-The version of Nothing But the Blood done by The Swift (which can be heard on their site here)
-What we are saved from is the wrath of God.
Christless Christianity
-Did they just quote the Westminster Shorter Catechism’s definition of sin as being the Bible’s? I would have appreciated the clarification on that the WSC is designed to be a summary…
-Of course, we don’t want to go to the other extreme and never talk about the Holy Spirit.
-Machen’s point that it’s not experience; it’s doctrine (Christianity and Liberalism is a wonderful book, by the way.)
-The quote on DC Talk’s song What If I Stumble about the single greatest cause of atheism in the world being lipservice (to sum it up)
-Chesterton in Heretics or Orthodoxy about how maturity leads to more and more fixed ideas, not broader and broader ones.
*grins*
Goodnight.
