Musings of a Snickerdoodle

  "However it happened, the external God has now disappeared and has been replaced by the internal God.   Transcendence has been swallowed up by immanence.   God is to be found only within the self.   And once that happened, the boundary between right and wrong - at least as we had thought about these things - went down like a row of falling skittles.   Evil and redemption came to be seen as the two sides of the same coin, not the two alternatives in life."   Or as he also put it, "We want God's love without his holiness…"    Wells addresses this erroneous viewpoint by explaining who God really is, and what His love is really like.   I really liked his critique of our culture, how it has a 'therapeutic vision'.   As Wells indicates, sadly, the 'church' has been going this way as well, following the spirit of the age they adapt the gospel to be about the fulfillment of our needs, our self-promotion and about our happiness now.   T...

Exploring ChristianTheology is   a part of a series of books summarizing the main   theologies of the Christian Church, and summarizing their differences. The general editors of this book are Nathan D. Holsteen and Michael J. Sviegel. The volume gives an overview of the main views of The Church, Spiritual Growth and the end times.    I gave this book three stars because I did not like the first section(By, or edited by Nathan Holsteen) on the Church and spiritual growth.   My dislike began when the beginning of the book, in the short overview chapter entitled, 'The Christian Story in Four Acts', started out with a detailed description of the plot of Star Wars.   I simply did not see that coming.   Yes Star Wars was only used as an example of a so called 'hero cycle' but I don't think the illustration was warranted.   Actually, I found it extremely unfitting for, and distracting from, the subject matter about to be dealt with.   It did...