One of the things I think Christians should be known for but aren't within our culture is telling the truth. We live a tragic world where death gets death's way. Of all people we should put disneyland platitudes aside and tell the truth about brokenness and brokenness' destination - DEATH, because we are told "the last enemy to be destroyed is death" (I Corinthians 15:26). The reason we must tell the truth about tragedy and death is because we are people who have been promised resurrection. Resurrection is our hope through Jesus Christ who bodily arose from and conquered death.
For several years I've been intrigued by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Benjamin Myers new book Christ the Stranger: The Theology of Rowan WIlliams is out and I'm wondering when I will be able to read it. This quote of Myers from the book posted in Books & Culture fuels my desire to read this sooner rather than later.
"Where moral reasoning tries to evade the tragic dimension, where it posits an unambiguous good, it becomes an exercise in fantasy and a failure to accept that God's grace is at work in the real, damaged world of human experience."
Just came across this: this is a bit of an empty statement?
Posted by: Jeremy Diehl | November 20, 2012 at 02:27 PM
Wow, Jeremy, really? Sorry, but I'm feeling feisty, so I wonder if your heads a little empty today?
Posted by: Mike King | November 20, 2012 at 02:30 PM
Jeremy let me try something a little less of a non-sequitor ;-): could you explain how you see this as an empty statement? I mean, that's a fairly assertive charge itself, and should probably be fleshed out in order for us not to make assumptions about why you'd say that. So please, help me understand why you think so.
Posted by: Erik Leafblad | November 20, 2012 at 02:41 PM
Erik, you are so much more gracious than I this fine day. I repent.
Posted by: Mike King | November 20, 2012 at 02:47 PM