You know, I'm morbidly curious if his new reactionary approach is precisely because of the weakness of the more theologically liberal approach. If the Bible is a nice set of stories that inspire but lack any real power, that's certainly not going to help in the face of the widespread anomie of an atomized late modernity.
I suspect that a more theologically conservative, more supernaturalist Giles Fraser would have been better equipped to resist the lure of the Blut and Boden approach that he seems to be succumbing to. (But then, given what my American fellow Christians have been up to of late, maybe not. =\)
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You know, I'm morbidly curious if his new reactionary approach is precisely because of the weakness of the more theologically liberal approach. If the Bible is a nice set of stories that inspire but lack any real power, that's certainly not going to help in the face of the widespread anomie of an atomized late modernity.
I suspect that a more theologically conservative, more supernaturalist Giles Fraser would have been better equipped to resist the lure of the Blut and Boden approach that he seems to be succumbing to. (But then, given what my American fellow Christians have been up to of late, maybe not. =\)
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