Thursday
Jan262006
The City of God and the City of Man
Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 9:47AM
If you're interested in the culture war debate, and how Christians should engage culture, Desiring God has a great survey of literature on the topic. Looks like there's some good material here that covers a number of perspectives. Thanks to Ken Davis again for the link.
Reader Comments (8)
There's a ton of excellent books there!!
I know! I wish I had an unlimited book budget.
I've only skimmed the list, so forgive me for generalizing, but it doesn't always seem that balanced. I'm thinking particularly of the books recommended under "War" and "Science". Having said that, there are a lot of interesting books on the list...
Marc: Good point. I was thinking more about the question of whether or not to legislate morality. There seem to be a few different approaches to answering this question in the books mentioned.
We could all learn a lot from John Piper. Check out his latest sermon "Love your unborn neighbor" When is the last time any emerging guy ever blogged about the tragedy and injustice of abortion? Its absolutely sickening and must grieve the heart of God. What an unbelievable society we live in when we call that a womans' right to choose. A woman's right to choose murder. Off topic, I know Darryl, just got me thinking as I read John Piper's latest sermon. He has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, by the way, schediled for surgery in February
"When is the last time any emerging guy ever blogged about the tragedy and injustice of abortion?" Not so long ago: http://emergentvoyageurs.blog.com/509579/" rel="nofollow">http://emergentvoyageurs.blog.com/509579/ "My own emotions rage when I consider the millions of lives lost daily to this practice. I am unequivocal in my belief that abortion is wrong, representing one of the most distressing drifts of humanity away from God's intentions for Creation. Let that be clear from the very beginning."
I stand corrected. I was thinking about it as I read through some blogs during the election campaign. Blogs of the liberal emerging type. It was interesting to me how afraid some people were of Harper and went on about that. Then towards the end of the campaign the Liberals ran that TV ad where they brought up the issue of abortion and what Harper might do with that issue. It had not really been raised during the campaign but they were desperate and wanted to bring up the issues that were successful for them in the previous campaign. I thought it was an incredible statement of where we are with the abortion issue in our country. I don't recall reading anything from any emergers (but I'm sure you will point out something to me) about how low the Liberals had stooped by doing that and I thought that was interesting. I thought - what does that say about emergers and the abortion issue?
Personally I don't think you hear emergers talk much about issues important to the modern conservative evangelical church due to an overreation of not wanting to be anything like them. Sadly, I think this is also a major reason why you don't hear emergers talking about salvation either.