Fuzzy non-Christianity misrepresents non-Christians (162)

In this episode Gregg reviews an episode from the Whitehorse Inn podcast by Christian academician Michael Horton entitled: “Do all paths lead to God?” Gregg begins by noting that this podcast was offered in the Untangling Christianity Facebook group as an example of how Christians engage well with non-Christians (i.e., how Christians can engage thoughtfully, on point, and respectfully with non-Christians and their perspectives). Gregg found just the opposite. Before beginning with a point-by-point examination of the episode Gregg first offers what he views to be a better way not only of engaging with non-Christians but a better approach to both life and faith. Gregg refers to this as an “integrated approach” to life and faith. This integrated approach emphasizes that unless we realize and address the problems associated with starting somewhere other than “with ourselves,” we are bound to misfire when we try to engage with both life and faith. And Christians are certainly bound to misfire when it comes to how they engage with non-Christians. On the other hand, an integrated approach positively emphasizes the crucial things that human beings glean about themselves and the insights that are offered relative to Christian belief (and the Christian God) by living in the world—what Christians refer to as “creation.” In other words, because creation and salvation are necessarily linked , human beings can derive ready, preliminary insights into who God is / the nature of the divine-human relationship by virtue of right living and rightly engaging with life . Gregg believes that this link between creation and salvation can best be expressed as “creation frames salvation, salvation refigures creation.” Creation frames salvation, salvation refigures creation . The post Fuzzy non-Christianity misrepresents non-Christians (162) appeared first on Untangling Christianity .

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Fuzzy non-Christianity misrepresents non-Christians (162) is an episode from Untangling Christianity Podcast by Gregg Monteith.

This episode is 22:23 long.

This episode was published on Feb 19, 2018.

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