It is always easy to say that all groups have their fringe and we should not pin the blame for the lone wolf on a whole movement. When, however, the movement lives with its lit match right by the fuse, eventually the game of “optics” will blow up in its face.
Read MoreIt seems that every theologian and his cat has felt compelled to post an opinion on whether Tim Keller is a Marxist. Yet after all of it, there is still something very important missing. I’d like to say, “Let’s clear this up,” but there’s no easy way to do so. Besides, that’s exactly what everyone else claims to do, while in reality doing more sidestepping, whitewashing, slandering, and demagoguing—oh! the demagoguing these days!
Read MoreIn his work entitled The Future of Christianity Alister E. McGrath focuses on the major paths and trends of Christianity in the twentieth century as a background for determining what may lay in store for the church, globally considered, in the near future. His analysis deals with the effects of Enlightenment thought on theology and lays out a method of appropriate reaction. For this he draws from the work of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. This proposal has appealing aspects and yet sounds suspicious for drawing upon the Marxist theorist. In this essay, I hope to show you some of the worthy features while pointing to a better role model from Church history.
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