an oxgoad, eh?» Neo-Orthodoxy http://oxgoad.ca fundamentalism by blunt instrument Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:10:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 hard-hitting CT http://oxgoad.ca/2011/02/07/hard-hitting-ct/ http://oxgoad.ca/2011/02/07/hard-hitting-ct/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:52:05 +0000 ox http://oxgoad.ca/2011/02/07/hard-hitting-ct/ Well… from the department of ‘bet-you-never-thought-you’d-see-this’, Christianity Today calls today calls a spade a (gasp) liberal!!!!

The spade in question is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the article in question can be found here.

Pretty amazing. More gutsy than some conservativish evangelicals, too.

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]]> http://oxgoad.ca/2011/02/07/hard-hitting-ct/feed/ 6 the certainty of uncertainty http://oxgoad.ca/2008/12/27/the-certainty-of-uncertainty/ http://oxgoad.ca/2008/12/27/the-certainty-of-uncertainty/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:03:01 +0000 ox http://oxgoad.ca/2008/12/27/the-certainty-of-uncertainty/ That would be the mark of neo-orthodoxy, I think. Or would it be the uncertainty of certainty? One can never tell.

This line illustrates what I mean:

If we cannot say anything adequately, we can say some things inadequately.

That would be H. Richard Niebuhr in Christ & Culture, a book I do not recommend anyone read unless they are thoroughly schooled in theology. Niebuhr is a slippery character with some keen insight into some things, but with a fundamental uncertainty about who our Lord really is or if he is all the Bible says he is.

But his line seems so appropriate for blogging, don’t you think?

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