What Does It Mean for the Church to Be "Politically Responsible"?
http://www.allanbevere.com/2014/05/what-does-it-mean-for-church-to-be.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+allanbevere%2FROss+%28Allan+R.+Bevere%29&utm_content=FaceBook One of the reasons I think the waning days of Christendom to be a good thing has everything to do with the recovery of the eschatological character of the gospel. When Christians begin to think we are at home in the world our sense that we live "between the times" is not only muted but close to being unintelligible. The recovery of the eschatological vision is crucial for how the church understands her relation to the world. My oft-made claim, a claim many find offensive, that the first task of the church is not to make the world just but to make the world the world, is rightly only understood in light of these eschatological convictions. Dualities such as faith and reason, grace and nature, creation and redemption are properly to be understood in the ...