Craig Carter is blogging

Craig Carter, professor at Tyndale and a panelist at the Evolving Church Conference, is blogging. Right now he's taking a look at some of McLaren's books:

Brian McLaren is bound to be considered a heretic by many Evangelicals because he thinks of Chrisitanity as a huge mansion and of Evangelicalism as one of many rooms in that house. Historic, ecumenical orthodoxy, rooted in the Bible and the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, is deeper, wider and bigger than American Evangelicalism.

He also recommends a new book called Truth and a New Kind of Christian. "He is very critical but doesn't lose his sanctification in the process. We could use more conversation like that around these issues." Amen to that.

Comments

[Trish]

I guess since I don't have a blog so I can't respond to Dr. Carter's blog entry for today. I agree with him that evangelicalism accommodates a much broader scope than political neoconservatism, but the just war theory with its criteria including preventative wars with just intention and moral defensibility has always been part of evangelicalism's ethical tradition. So I don't know why he would stamp the possibility of stopping the aggression of an unjust Iranian war as "warmongering." Nuclear pacifism is naive in my view.

[Matthew]

Dr. Carter was my Theology prof. in my first class at Tyndale, unfortunately I was not ready for it as a person and as a student, so I missed out. Then he was on sabbatical when I would have had him in worldview (my brother did get that priviledge and raves about it) But he is a very wise man in both theology and philosophy. And he reviews of both Secret Message and AGO are quiet good. I am excited.