tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post4296021791217797063..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Walk In The LightAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-10976661744150250902022-03-04T07:35:41.442-05:002022-03-04T07:35:41.442-05:00The problem with all Christian social justice thin...The problem with all Christian social justice thinking is that it blurs the distinction between the church and the world. It assumes that the rules given to the church for its well-being are intended as a template for the governance of the world. They are not so intended, and the attempt to impose Christian values on the world constitutes a kind of substitute gospel. The church is intended as an alternative to the world -- it is the only "just society" that we are instructed to create.G. Poulinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18293368745484671254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-53553900043977526322022-02-28T14:08:41.861-05:002022-02-28T14:08:41.861-05:00I looked at that, and saw that about half of all F...I looked at that, and saw that about half of all Friends are in Africa now. If they are following Anglican and Methodist trend, they are theologically quite conservative and biblical. Yet many other African traditions are very much concerned with personal revelation and less dogma.<br /><br />Richard Foster was clearly among the evangelicals decades ago, but I understand he is not only social justice in action now - something to be praised - but accepting of modern justice theology that stresses validating the perspectives of the oppressed simply because they are oppressed and (supposedly) unheard by others.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-7674758669951773952022-02-28T13:29:22.216-05:002022-02-28T13:29:22.216-05:00A song ©1964 by the English songwriter Sydney Cart...A song ©1964 by the English songwriter Sydney Carter:<br />https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/mar/17/guardianobituaries.religion<br /><br />My impression from when I lived in England was that the evangelicals there consider Fox to be one of their own, but the modern meetings of the big Friends organization there (groups meeting Sundays with unprogrammed worship and tending-to-universalist theology) not. When one starts reading biography of Fox, it seems that the modern Society of Friends groupings illustrate rather well Robert Conquest's reported observation: that organisations which survive long enough, will end up being run in such a way as to contradict their founding purpose.<br />https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/feb/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview23<br /><br />Wikipedia tells me that the 'Evangelical Friends' splits now constitute 89% of worldwide Quakers, with the sort that we're thinking of being the 11%.<br /><br />Douglas2https://www.blogger.com/profile/11290012200563917585noreply@blogger.com