Showing posts with label Theology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theology. Show all posts
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, November 10, 2006
Happy Birthday, volk man.
Today marks the birthday of the man who Inspired this Blog.
November 10, 1483.
We celebrate Martin Luther's birthday, in part because of his enormous influence. He changed the way the Church views soteriology, ecclesiology, theology, marriage, God, the State, and pretty much anything else to which Christianity might relate.
He changed the Church.
Because of Luther, we don't go to mass, Rome's appeal is historically romantic (not theologically fundamental), our pastor has a wife, we don't work hard to get to heaven (even in the South), chills go through us when we hear the tune of Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott, the Diet of Worms is not just for fish, we pulled for Germany in the World Cup final, and we like beer and don't feel guilty for it.
We're not alone. There are 400 million other protestants who's lives as they know it have been intimately affected by this lawyer turned priest.
Hans and Margarethe must be proud of their boy.
Luther's Seal.
November 10, 1483.
We celebrate Martin Luther's birthday, in part because of his enormous influence. He changed the way the Church views soteriology, ecclesiology, theology, marriage, God, the State, and pretty much anything else to which Christianity might relate.
He changed the Church.
Because of Luther, we don't go to mass, Rome's appeal is historically romantic (not theologically fundamental), our pastor has a wife, we don't work hard to get to heaven (even in the South), chills go through us when we hear the tune of Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott, the Diet of Worms is not just for fish, we pulled for Germany in the World Cup final, and we like beer and don't feel guilty for it.
We're not alone. There are 400 million other protestants who's lives as they know it have been intimately affected by this lawyer turned priest.
Hans and Margarethe must be proud of their boy.
Luther's Seal.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Us vs. Rick Warren
Here's our response to the Purpose Driven Life, by way of one C.S. Lewis as he discusses what he sees as the false dichotomy that is often created between books of piety and books of theology/doctrine...
"For my own part I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand."
Now that's what we're talking about.
"For my own part I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand."
Now that's what we're talking about.
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