tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post111695055845179316..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Selective ecumenismRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1116982689829056612005-05-24T20:58:00.000-04:002005-05-24T20:58:00.000-04:00Thanks for your background info in the second pos...Thanks for your background info in the second post. As to the question in your first comment, it's true that many Christians suffer from an unrealistic expectation of the level of spiritual experience (of God's felt presence) they can hope for in this life.<BR/><BR/>But from what I can tell, and I haven't read everything of his by a long shot, he seems to feel that sola Scriptura assumes the possibility of "objective," knowledge, which has been disproven by postmodernism. Hence, we need some back-up system to supplement sola Scripture.<BR/><BR/>In my opinion, this objection suffers from an inadequate grasp of providence--as well as a misplaced burden of proof. I've discussed that general issue in my essay entitled "Without a doubt."stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1116980006349932472005-05-24T20:13:00.000-04:002005-05-24T20:13:00.000-04:00I think it should be pointed out that when Kevin J...I think it should be pointed out that when Kevin Johnson states that Tim Enloe has defended Reformed theology against RC critics and all that that that was before (love those instances of three 'thats' in a row by the way) that that was before Enloe had his "break" (very public break) from his old allegiances with Reformed apologists like White and Svendsen and people like that. Part of Enloe's break from all that involved a very public "reconsideration" of Reformed theology in which Reformed theology, in his mind, came to be something very much of less value than he viewed it in the past. <BR/><BR/>(And, please, I know that we're talking about a guy living in an apartment in Idaho with a connection to the internet, but, you know, it is the Enloes who end up teaching theology in universities, and he seems to be on that academic track currently himself.) <BR/><BR/>Since that break it is not a false charge to say that Enloe has been pretty much "nasty always" towards what he now calls sneeringly "Reformedville". <BR/><BR/>So, take that into consideration when Kevin Johnson attempts to defend Enloe by bringing up his past apologetic efforts.<BR/><BR/>I will add that it is part of the schtik (sp?) of these Reformed Catholics to "affect" a knowledge of and sympathy to Reformed theology (Calvinism) and to use their past involvement in it to garner them some kind of moral high ground or special status as they go about undermining it and misquoting its theologians and sneering at its most foundational points of doctrine (which are, for the record, the most foundational points of doctrine of the Bible itself, it goes without saying....if you value and understand Reformed theology as Biblical doctrine).UK67https://www.blogger.com/profile/15095910610517995965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1116967427112258472005-05-24T16:43:00.000-04:002005-05-24T16:43:00.000-04:00Steve, it may veer into psychology, or looking int...Steve, it may veer into psychology, or looking into people's hearts regarding effectual calling, and I understand if you don't want to go there, but I wonder what your take may be on what a Kevin Johnson or Tim Enloe feel they are missing in their experience of the Faith? They obviously feel something is lacking for them. Would their longings be an example of this phrase "immanentize the eschaton"?UK67https://www.blogger.com/profile/15095910610517995965noreply@blogger.com