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the development of liberation theology is rooted in an uncritical acceptance of the findings of Marxist theory as the neutral data of a secular science. As such, "their theology of the political remains trapped within the terms of 'secular reason', and its unwarranted foundationalist presuppositions" as if the "basic Marxist conclusions were inviolable"
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Those who do away with Christian Doctrine whether they are aware of it or not, are the worst enemies of Christian living. Because the coals of orthodoxy are necessary to the fire of piety. A Marvelous Ministry: How the All-round Ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon Speaks to us Today (128)
There is a strong drift toward the hard theological left. Some emergent types want to recast Jesus as a limp-wrist hippie in a dress with a lot of product in His hair, who drank decaf and made pithy Zen statements about life while shopping for the perfect pair of shoes. In Revelation, Jesus is a pride fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is a guy I can worship. I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up. I fear some are becoming more cultural than Christian, and without a big Jesus who has authority and hates sin as revealed in the Bible, we will have less and less Christians and more and more confused, spiritually self-righteous blogger critics of Christianity.
We must assume a context of spiritual confusion, and this is often now a hostile confusion.
I sympathize with every human heart wishing to know the one true and living God. But I believe there's only one way that can happen: through Jesus Christ. And the gospel is about repenting to sin not celebrating it.
But there are many who consider themselves fully conservative and fully orthodox who never preach many texts of scripture, who never remotlely come into contact with many doctrinal truths. Because they recoil on how to present them in an age which considers them crude and ugly and unclean. and when you buy into that logic. Guess what? You're a liberal. (Video Interview)
But there is one thing that is infinitely more absurd and unpractical than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the habit of saying that his philosophy does not matter, and this is done universally in the twentieth century. Heretics(7)
the gospel really comes to light not in abstraction but in blood, in bruises, in the beating, in the crown of thorns, in blood dripping down a cross. That's not abstract. That's real, it's historical, and it's for you and for me. And so one of the things I find to be tragically sad, tragically sad about the emergent movement is that it actually abstracts the gospel. You lose the gospel, and your left with again the stifling guilt without any absolution. Feb32010 FightingFortheFaith
All this emergent church stuff, much of the church growth stuff, all the cultural sensitivity throwing out the window biblical sensitivity, it's just a bunch of little boys wanting to play church without the power of God on their life. Ten Indictments (1:50)
What I'm concerned about, there are congregations of people who come into a minimalist understanding of the gospel. And who the rest of their life are going to try to battle and live a life to the glory of GOd with a conscience that has no information. There isn't any radar, nothing's coming in. So the conscience is unable to function. Resolved 2005 Talk 3 (around 25 minutes in)
Liberalism, in fact, was a religion of the middle classes, of those who exploited the workers. Its utopian dream of a harmonious society was completely out of touch with reality. History of Christian Thought (291)
Faced with such opposition and the pressure it brings, postmodernism is a form of intellectual pacifism that, at the end of the day, recommends backgammon while the barbarians are at the gate. It is the easy, cowardly way out that removes the pressure to engage alternative conceptual schemes, to be different, to risk ridicule, to take a stand outside the gate. But it is precisely as disciples of Christ, even more, as officers in his army, that the
pacifist way out is simply not an option. However comforting it may be, postmodernism is the cure that kills the patient, the military strategy that concedes defeat before the first shot is fired, the ideology that undermines
its own claims to allegiance. And it is an immoral, cowards way out that is not worthy of a movement born out of the martyrs blood. Whatever Happened to Truth (92)
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