Saturday, October 10, 2009

More from Schaeffer


From A Christian Manifesto:

There is no way to mix these two [Christianity and humanism/materialism] total world views. They are separate entities that cannot be synthesized. Yet we must say that liberal theology, the very essence of it from its beginning, is an attempt to mix the two. Liberal theology tried to bring forth a mixture soon after the Enlightenment and has tried to synthesize these two views right up to our own day. But in each case when the chips are down these liberal theologians have always come down, as naturally as a ship coming into home port, on the side of the nonreligious humanist. They do this with certainty because what their liberal theology really is is humanism expressed in theological terms instead of philosophic or other terms. (21)

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  1. Another great thought by Schaeffer! The humanistic aspect of this is what I heard at the Coren/Trottier debate. Why be good? It is groundless in a materialistic worldview.

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