tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8934298301663499561.post5477909194706667584..comments2023-05-07T09:56:23.909-04:00Comments on The Christian Curmudgeon: I Got My Fig Leaf OnAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07146011447109951026noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8934298301663499561.post-14966387714358266592014-03-08T01:46:31.090-05:002014-03-08T01:46:31.090-05:00Speaking from the transformational left, at least ...Speaking from the transformational left, at least that is how I think I am categorized by my views, it is time to do what Martin Luther King Jr did with Communism and Capitalism. Recognizing a major flaw in each, he sought to synthesize the two by combining the truths that each side brought while filtering out the flaws. For example, King saw Captialism's flaw as forgetting that life is social and thus there is a collective side to society. Communism's flaw is that it forgot that life is individual and society should make room for individual freedom. And rather than absolutizing the collectivism of Communism and the individualism of Capitalism, he sought to join the two so that there was a mix of both life as social and life as individual. <br /><br />We should recognize that the flaw in transformational theology is that it drafts, or at least tries to, society into becoming a supplemental arm of church discipline. So that instead of being a place of rest for those who could not be in good standing in the church due to belief or behavior, they are punished, this usually includes a physical punishment, by society for being convicted as guilty for wrongdoing or wrong believing in the church. Luther's call for Germans to punish the Jews, Calvin's Geneva and its persecution of heretics and witches, and the Puritans persecution of the Quakers are tragic examples of the Church using society as a supplemental disciplinary arm.<br /><br />At the same time, 2K theology inhibits the Church from speaking out against social sins. Anthony Bradley made this point in a White Horse Inn blog discussion with Michael Horton and I think it was about slavery in the South. There are social sins from which the Church needs to call society to repent. After all, society is merely a group made up of people and so if a group sins, the individual in the group is not innocent because they stayed within the confines of the group. We think of the complicity of the German citizens during the Nazi years as an example of collective guilt as well as the complicity or even participation in slavery in America from its founding to the Civil War. And we can add Americans complicity or participation in the subsequent Jim Crow years as another social ill which individuals were guilty of participating in by being compliant members of society.Curt Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06086508660386800294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8934298301663499561.post-22431010205623138202014-03-07T15:44:57.107-05:002014-03-07T15:44:57.107-05:00This type of name-calling and motive-guessing espe...This type of name-calling and motive-guessing especially by transformationalist types is pretty distressing. When one PCA pastor has to write a book on antinomianism in order to name call another PCA pastor, I start to think maybe I should be joining the Reformed Episcopals myself. mozarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12379441959997940489noreply@blogger.com