tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post8483220294611905507..comments2024-03-01T14:27:35.794-08:00Comments on Albion Awakening: The Resurrection Business - Michael Martin's 'Jesus the Imagination'Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-29636338761176361042018-06-07T00:19:12.165-07:002018-06-07T00:19:12.165-07:00Good point Dale, thanks very much.Good point Dale, thanks very much.John Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13951246561259007162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-62505987129748994322018-06-06T18:14:41.392-07:002018-06-06T18:14:41.392-07:00John, "many Christians are advocating a compl...John, "many Christians are advocating a complete withdrawal from the secular world and the creation of alternative, 'underground' networks of co-religionists as the only way traditional faith-based communities can weather the storm and build for a more sympathetic future" isn't an accurate statement of what Dreher's Benedict Option advocates. I've read it a couple of times and made a presentation loosely connected with it to a pastors' group, and would say that, rather, Dreher urges is a deeper seriousness for Christians as regards the sacramental and liturgical life together, catechesis, etc., so that our roots go deeper in the truth. An aspect of this movement is a withdrawal not from the secular world, but from organizations attempting to bring Christian renewal about through a right-wing version of the Social Gospel and so on. Dreher believes that state-supported removal of vestiges of Christianity will continue in schools, law, government, entertainment, etc., but that Christians have excellent resources in our heritage to help us to be able to pass on the Faith to our children. (As you may remember from an earlier message from me here, I think that the question "What about our children?" needs to be up front in our thinking. It is easy to amuse ourselves with endless diagnosing of the ills of modern society, with saying predictable things about trends, etc., but this might not be very good stewardship of the time and opportunity that remain to us for ensuring the transmission of the Faith -- for the sake of others. The New Testament suggests that God is more interested in us doing things like that, than in our exchanging variations on things we have said before with a handful of like-minded people. I do think that some of that goes on here; at any rate, I know that it does in my life. But am I supporting orthodox ministries that will actually help to pass on the Faith and equip people who are alive when I am an old man or dead?)<br /><br />Dreher is to be commended for writing his call for Christians to "strengthen the things that remain." Yes, we need occasionally to take note of further advances by the enemy, since there is a war on, but we should remember that Christians are to be prepared to give an account of what they have done with the time and resources entrusted to them. I hope that a lot of people who visit this blog and may have heard of Dreher's book, and who think they already know what it says, will take time to read it for themselves.<br /><br />Dale NelsonWurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.com