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Calvinist view of Church?
Thursday 20th May 2010 @ 12:00 am / what I'm learning / 0 comments
This quote is taken from "Who's afraid of Postmodernism" by James Smith. The book is pretty good for seeing postmodernity in ways that do not threaten the Church ... but for me, I found it a little too Calvinist, but hey, you can't have everything.
But Smith's obvious Calvinism was also a challenge to me, because while his thorough academic philosophy as a base root, his flower was the work of the Holy Spirit through faith ... not a style of writing that you come across very often. And so sentences like below struck me - and gave me ...
modernism didn't have to be this way!?
Saturday 15th May 2010 @ 12:00 am / what I'm learning / 0 comments
A couple of months ago I began a Doctorate of Ministry (DMin) through Fuller seminary in USA (California - yippeeee!) ... it is a distance study course & should take four years ... long time. I go to US for one week of intensive study every year - which should be fun.
From time to time I should post some of the interesting things I'm reading - so here is a start ... one of sociologist Stephen Toulmin's theories concerning the rise of radical scientific rationalism in the 17th C ...