\u201cCan a Progressive\u2019s \u2018Inclusive Values\u2019 Include Christianity?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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I like this passage from a lecture given in New York City by the great British\u00a0New Testament scholar (and former Anglican bishop) N. T. Wright:<\/p>\n
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\u201cHumans are made to reflect God out into the world \u2014 and at the same time, to reflect the rest of the world back to the Creator in worship and praise.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u201cLet me explain. \u00a0I\u2019m an ancient historian by training. \u00a0Once, when I was going through the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, it struck me that all the greatest statues of Roman emperors and their families they\u2019ve got in that museum were found, not in Rome but in Turkey, Greece, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa: all over the place, in other words. \u00a0In Rome, they knew who their emperor was. \u00a0But out there in the provinces, the emperors put images of themselves so as to say to all the cities and countries over which they ruled, \u2018This is who your boss is.\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u201cAnd the point about Genesis 1 is that the gracious God, who is as unlike a Roman emperor as you could wish him to be, has put into his world an image of himself called men and women<\/em> made in his image to show his world what he is like. \u00a0Tragically, we humans decided we would prefer to turn it around and reflect the world back to itself and worship and serve the creature rather than the Creator, as Saint Paul puts it. \u00a0This has caused the image to be fractured and broken, distorting human rule over the world. \u00a0But the point is that once we listen to those echoes of a voice [intimations of divinity that he has previously discussed] and once we are renewed and refreshed in listening to the story of Jesus, then we begin to be able to reflect the image once more.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nN.T. Wright, in Eric Metaxas, ed., Life, God, and Other Small Topics: Conversations from Socrates in the City<\/em> (New York: Plume\/Penguin, 2011), 216.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s slightly non-Mormon, of course, but still intriguing (to me, at least).<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Jeff Lindsay makes an important point here, one with which\u00a0(for reasons that will rapidly become obvious) I completely agree: \u00a0 \u201cThe Human Cost of Drawing People Away from Faith\u201d \u00a0 *** \u00a0 Meanwhile, David French asks an increasingly urgent question: \u00a0 \u201cCan a Progressive\u2019s \u2018Inclusive Values\u2019 Include Christianity?\u201d \u00a0 *** \u00a0 I like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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