[Uucf-bible] An Interesting Book

[Jim Tarvid]

A most welcome interjection.  A friend has been nudging me in this (process
theology) direction particularly in the context of Charles Pierce. It is a
bit like clearing cobwebs with hand grenades. I've had the feeling for some
time that reality is not all it is cracked up to be.

I wonder what this discussion will be like tomorrow.

Jim

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM, John & Sarah Tindal <jbtindal at ftc-i.net>wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I just got through reading /Lay Theology/ by John B. Cobb, Jr. Dr. Cobb
> is a Methodist and he is the founder and director of the Center for
> Process Studies. He is the author of more than a dozen books.
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> I found chapter 4, "Theology as Transforming Tradition" to be most
> interesting. In that chapter Dr. Cobb writes:
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> "No Christian can tell another what finally to conclude. Only a
> community in which each person takes responsibility for her or his
> belief can be a healthy Christian community." (page 86)
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> "However, profoundly inspired by God, the Bible is also a very human
> book. and however human the subsequent tradition has been, Christians
> still find God at work in it. Indeed the Bible is part of the tradition,
> the most authoritative part according to the remainder of the
> tradition." (page 88)
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> "If to be a Christian today meant accepting any past or present form of
> Christianity as normative, I could not be a Christian." (page 90)
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> "If we deleted from our heritage everything that is in any way
> objectionable, we would have nothing left. Those who move in this
> direction step by step, not realizing that they are peeling an onion,
> have given to a once vital 'liberalism' a bad name." (page 91)
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> "Christianity in its present form, or in any of its past forms, is,
> indeed, not universal. It omits much of redemptive value that other
> communities have found, and it lacks much that is yet to be revealed in
> the future." (page 100)
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> "Our hope lies in God. Apart from God's universal creative-redemptive
> work we are doomed. But that work takes place through creatures who are
> only partly responsive. There is no assurance that we will allow it to
> triumph through us. How we respond to God's call determines what kind of
> world we will pass on to our descendants - or even whether there will be
> any human descendants at all." (page 111)
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> This book is a good introduction to process theology.
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> John Tindal
> Sumter, South Carolina
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