Volf on "The Church's Great Malfunctions"
Theologian Miroslav Volf, who participated in the Emergent Village theological conversation earlier this year, has written—with contributions from five colleagues at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture—an article for Christianity Today’s “Christian Vision Project” on “The Church’s Great Malfunctions.” In it, Volf writes, “We Christians should be our own most rigorous critics—and be that precisely out of a deep sense of the beauty and goodness of our faith. Then we can begin to think of faith neither as simply a system of propositions to be believed, nor as merely a set of energizing and healing techniques to be practiced, but as an integral way of life.”
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A very thought provoking article.
I think the author has good handle on the root causes of the problems within the Church. I agree for the most part with the conclusions he reachs. However, I think the various dogmas that different denominational churchs hold dear, will create problems with the church-based pursuit the author advocates.
Also, though I may be mistaken, he seems to be coming from a Post-Millenial point of view, and that is a view I reject.
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I would shorten the last phrase to just the way to really live.