A False Dichotomy

February 16, 2008 on 1:38 am | In Social Justice, Theology |

It’s no good falling back into the tired old split-level world where some people believe in evangelism in terms of saving souls for a timeless eternity and other people believe in mission in terms of working for justice, peace, and hope in the present world. That great divide has nothing to do with Jesus and the New Testament and everything to do with the silent enslavement of many Christians (both conservative and radical) to the Platonic ideology of the Enlightenment.

from N. T. Wright’s book Surprised by Hope.

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  1. oh man that’s what I was trying to tell people at our leadership retreat last weekend! (of course I said it less eloquently)

    Comment by Grant — February 16, 2008 #

  2. ps your link to Koinonia house goes to the Newman center. :)

    Comment by Grant — February 16, 2008 #

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