The Christian Church in a Post-Modern World

This quote was on the banner at the Boar’s Head Tavern this evening. I find it compelling.

The primary problem confronting the Christian Church in a post-modern world is not whether Christian claims about God can be debated in credible ways with alternating accounts (logos) of abstract reasoning. Rather, the challenge is about ethos of Christian witness. Can particular Christian communities produce and sustain the kind of witness to God in which their practices of discipleship can serve as credible signs of God’s reconciling work in the world? -Michael Cartwright

Thanks banner guy at bht.

The Reason for God

Tim Keller has a new book, The Reason for God, coming out in February 2008. I’m excited for a couple of reasons. First, I like Tim Keller a great deal. I have learned from him and find him to be an important voice in the Evangelical world. Second, I have been looking for a book like this.

Justin Taylor has an excerpt on his blog. Read it here.

Wisdom Framed

John Frame writes:

Why is it, I wonder, that in our circles whenever anybody gets an interesting idea, it produces a party that makes it a test of orthodoxy, leading to another party that opposes it, and then to battles between these parties in the churches? Why can’t those who think they have new insights quietly teach their insights to others while embracing them as brothers and sisters in Christ? If some don’t “get it,” why should that amount to heresy? Why not simply permit both views to be taught until the Spirit convinces God’s people generally that one view is Scriptural and the other is not?

Pascal was a Presuppositionalist

C.S. Lewis quotes Blaise Pascal in his Introductory to The Problem of Pain. Says Pascal:

I wonder at the hardihood with which such persons undertake to talk about God. In a treatise addressed to infidels they begin with a chapter proving the existence of God from the works of Nature…this only gives their readers grounds for thinking that the proofs of our religion are very weak….It is a remarkable fact that no canonical writer has ever used Nature to prove God.