tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33424426.post5496381049539453977..comments2023-09-01T07:04:13.381-07:00Comments on Reflections on Faith and Culture: From the Amsterdam ConferenceGil Bailiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481878663941134090noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33424426.post-2487064255508088252007-07-06T15:06:00.000-07:002007-07-06T15:06:00.000-07:00I think there are additional components to this th...I think there are additional components to this that complicate things.<BR/><BR/>Firstly, small but powerful groups in the West are actively trying to subvert the Christian basis for our culture. <BR/><BR/>Secondly, and I know this will sound curious, but I believe the Evangelical movement has a lot to do with this. Christianity in the East is strong but heavily persecuted. Evangelical Christians in the West have lost their interest in the future and are just waiting around to be "raptured".<BR/><BR/>The Founding Fathers, while certainly Christian, had a a very forward looking view and would frequently write about what the country would look like 100 or even 200 years later. I don't believe that future looking viewpoint exists in Western Christianity, but it must be brought back for any of this to work out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33424426.post-30232245875073486052007-07-05T22:17:00.000-07:002007-07-05T22:17:00.000-07:00Spectacularly prescient comments. Were it not for ...Spectacularly prescient comments. Were it not for my faith I would believe we are domed to be over-run by the zealots.jbraceboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02556685557432315758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33424426.post-19042039670618818472007-07-05T14:03:00.000-07:002007-07-05T14:03:00.000-07:00Dear Gil,Very powerful in a most appropriate setti...Dear Gil,<BR/><BR/>Very powerful in a most appropriate setting at COV'R in Amsterdam!<BR/><BR/>With that said...and not to side track from Jeremiah, (so I am lifting this comment out of the COV'R setting and into an ERI setting), your reference: "Henri de Lubac pitied those who learned their catechism against something, and the worst way to revive the Christian spirit in the West is to do so in order to counter non-Christian influences, whatever they might be..." where did he say this and more important to me, in your words, what did de Lubac mean by this? This concept as you wrote it out here sounds very much Girardian.David Nybakkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13172189118334371454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33424426.post-85399452710738483752007-07-05T09:57:00.000-07:002007-07-05T09:57:00.000-07:00Bracing and tonic, Gil. Thank you for your honest...Bracing and tonic, Gil. Thank you for your honest and consistent witness.Athoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com