Thoughts and musings on life, culture, and God
On Doing—Not Just Hearing—the Word
Consider my mind blown after reading this—
“In the language of Zizek, we must traverse the fantasy of ‘the inerrant Bible’ and recognize the lack that is behind it, detach ourselves from it and work towards a reconfiguration of our belief and practice of Scripture. We surely want to uphold ‘a high view’ of Scripture as truth bearing, reliable, trustworthy, and dare I say infallible. But we need a way of both articulating this belief and practicing it in a manner that restores Jesus Christ to the core of our politic. Zizek, no doubt, would have us find a better way to live with this void. Contrary to Zizek, however, I propose the way forward is to fill the void via a restoration of the incarnate Christ to the core of our political life together—via our belief and practice of the Scripture. Scripture, in other words, must be practiced as a living political extension of the living incarnate Christ who lives and reigns within the triune relation and what God is doing in the whole world. Reclaiming the core of our politics in Jesus Christ in this way provides the basis for a politics of mission.”
David Fitch, The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission, 72.
The eisegesis is just breathtaking. Truly a nuanced and sensitive reading of the text.
The best part is when the author says contemporary worship is essentially classic Protestant liberalism. A bit of a sweeping statement that deserves to be fleshed out more, but one that strikes me as true.
