tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post6758201934989528479..comments2023-11-03T11:37:04.473+00:00Comments on nothing new under the sun: Williams on our delusions of control and finalitybyron smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-20038959270011702182012-01-10T13:51:46.784+00:002012-01-10T13:51:46.784+00:00I keep coming back to this quote. It really is stu...I keep coming back to this quote. It really is stunningly important.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-17210294790738846402008-03-06T23:02:00.000+00:002008-03-06T23:02:00.000+00:00Byron, I was linking it to your second comment abo...Byron, I was linking it to your second comment about our desire for finality. Far too often our preaching / teaching / concept of God is looking towards the last day and that our time here is spent impatiently waiting for that time to come...<BR/><BR/>Instead it is now that we are a new creation (believers), the old has gone, the new has been ushered in. Therefore the reality is that we have Craig Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15588042075470456058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-51241488940995386832008-03-06T11:47:00.000+00:002008-03-06T11:47:00.000+00:00Interesting thought Will - the need to understand ...Interesting thought Will - the need to understand war as purposeful, as achieving some kind of resolution. And hence the threat to national and personal meaning when a war is protracted and there is no clear 'winner', where it resists a simple narrative (e.g. the forces of democracy against the axis of facism).byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-51010283370020410742008-03-06T10:17:00.000+00:002008-03-06T10:17:00.000+00:00Because our human history is marked by an ultimate...<I>Because our human history is marked by an ultimate severing of relations in death, and because death is something we can inflict (though not resist), it is not surprising that we nurture this delusion. It can be a source of relief: by the murder of another, by the obliteration of a race, by the consignment of someone to the isolation of prison or hospital, by the suffocation of my own memory, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-89410880326505515322008-03-06T07:00:00.000+00:002008-03-06T07:00:00.000+00:00I'm familiar with Piper's conception of Christian ...I'm familiar with Piper's conception of Christian hedonism, but could you spell out the links to RW's quote a little more?byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-11035435072768079582008-03-06T06:45:00.000+00:002008-03-06T06:45:00.000+00:00I think this is what Piper is addressing in his pr...I think this is what Piper is addressing in his preaching about Christian Hedonism, in that our new life starts here NOW - the Kingdom has come and yet is still to come...Craig Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15588042075470456058noreply@blogger.com