Comments on: Post Post-Christendom…

By: Graham Irvine

Graham Irvine — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 03:30:18 +0000

Thanks Brian. Within our small group we have been working through the latest from Olove Tree Media – Jesus the Game Changer. This is an excellent series looking at the way in which the Christian faith and the words of Jesus have shapped the Western world in particular. Woul dhighly recommend it.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:30:22 +0000

In reply to Tim Bulkeley. Thanks Tim. A fair comment and corrective, though it is interesting to note that John Dickson (amongst others) argues that the advent of Christianity saw this reach a previously unknown level.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:26:43 +0000

In reply to Ellis. Well said. Yes, so easy to think it all depends upon us... and it really doesn't.

By: Ellis

Ellis — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 09:07:10 +0000

I am very optimistic about the post post-Christendom era. We now have generations of kids in this country who aren’t growing up with a cultural hangover Christianity which bears little resemblance to Christ. Instead, we have people who are asking genuine questions about faith and are happy to engage with the Bible. That means that we have to be faithful to that and also let the Holy Spirit do his work in convicting people of sin and bringing them to repentance, as opposed to being moral gatekeepers that seemed to be the church’s role in Christendom. We need not fear the change, but rather embrace it.

By: Tim Bulkeley

Tim Bulkeley — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 03:00:29 +0000

Brian, thank you (again) for you stimulating posts. I don’t want to suggest that a detail is a problem for what you are saying overall, at least this detail I am sure isn’t. But when you say:
“Indeed, the very concept of a charitable concern for your neighbor, or for the poor and vulnerable, was never an entrenched value until Christianity started to shape the world.”
I think you overstate your case, unless you mean exclusively in Europe, for the laws in the Pentateuch clearly already have charitable concern for the neighbour as a significant centre of interest. And I think it could rightly be called an entrenched value of biblical religion BC as well as AD!