Inquiring After God Through Friendship – Caroline J. Simon
TH 291
10/21/04
evangelical – Charry’s definition
- broad
word
- modern
group that stems from Karl Henry who founded Fuller in 1940s.
- Christianity
Today, Calvin college, Wheaton, Grove-City college, Gordon-Conwell
seminary
- to
preserve a strong sense of mostly reformed theology
- conservative
- not
necessarily fundamentalist
- biggest
name – Billy Graham
- broad
term – now means nothing more than people who like Billy Graham
- Biblical
orientation toward piety and doctrine
- conversion
plays important role but is not
- roots
– 18th century evangelicalism (Jonathan Edwards)
- very
American phenomenon
Europe - evangelical simply means Protestant
Middle East –
PCA – more doctrine on inerrancy, more conservative
old labels do not fit due to shifting/change/rethinking
best criticism is self-criticism
Caroline J Simon
Story in the chapter
- loyalty
liberates (kept secret)
- great-receiving
grace – Reformed
- Annie
is instrument of divine grace that liberates (Reformed theme)
Definition of destiny
- root
in Greco-Roman world
- Calvin
– trained in Roman Stoicism, showed obedience to divine will
- telos
– the final end, has to do with one’s purpose (the goal)
- Caroline
Simon – not the image of God
Destiny by Caroline Simon
- what
God intends but does not compel
- JL –
did Simon decide to follow Jesus or did Jesus call Simon without option
(irresistible grace)
-
fiction-making
- self-created
narrative but not the true self
- unconnected
to the true self
- what
is the difference between fiction-making and destiny?
- discernment
in this?
redemption
- “divine
zapping”?
- redemption
is a process instead of a zapping
THIS IS WHY THEOLOGY MATTERS
- challenge
– get theology straight
- challenge
– think about what a theology will do to people in different circumstances
- first
rule of medicine – DO NO HARM
TWO MAJOR DOCTRINES