One of the students at the recent Theopolis course on covenant epistemology nailed the theme of the week. It was a week-long re-initiation into childhood, led by an authoritative guide in childlikeness, Esther Meek.<\/p>\n
Covenant epistemology calls us to be childlike in our unfeigned delight in the world, childlike in our trust in reality, childlike in our vulnerability to what the world brings our way, childlike in our willingness to risk a venture of knowing, childlike in responsiveness, childlike in the confidence that this is our Father\u2019s world.<\/p>\n
When one talks about childishness, one cannot avoid talking about Chesterton:<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, \u2018Do it again\u2019; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, \u2018Do it again\u2019 to the sun; and every evening, \u2018Do it again\u2019 to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the students at the recent Theopolis course on covenant epistemology nailed the theme of the week. It was a week-long re-initiation into childhood, led by an authoritative guide in childlikeness, Esther Meek. Covenant epistemology calls us to be childlike in our unfeigned delight in the world, childlike in our trust in reality, childlike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children"],"yoast_head":"\n