The Consumer-Drive Life
Either today just happens to be a day that I find some really good stuff out there in blogland, or I am too lazy to write anything good on my own. I'm not sure. Either way, here is a great quote ganked from a post on The Mimmenblog :
"Nothing could show better the late nineteenth-century Protestant Church's altered identity as an eager participant in the emerging consumer society than its obsession with popularity and its increasing disregard of intellectual issues." ~Ann Douglas
Still true today? Sadly, me thinks it could be.
"Nothing could show better the late nineteenth-century Protestant Church's altered identity as an eager participant in the emerging consumer society than its obsession with popularity and its increasing disregard of intellectual issues." ~Ann Douglas
Still true today? Sadly, me thinks it could be.
posted by Miroslav at 4:13 PM
3 Comments:
What about Lewis, Tolkien, Schaffer, Graham, Chambers, Stott, Walvoord, McDowell, Martin, Sunday, Moody, and Swindoll? Those I named off the top of my head. Most of them dealt with the church issues squarely and many of them in an intellectual fashion. All are heroes, and the list is by no means complete.
But if you mean the church at large then I agree. The church always has had its apostasy, and it is the job of the current generation of heroes to point the way to righteousness. We have had our problems with greed- but maybe no more than other generations. We do have more to be greedy over. But our batch of heroes have been faithful to their calling- which is to show us who will listen a better way.
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan: I look back and I see it was not bad. Not bad at all.
Pat
I do believe that the church at large is what is being pointed to here.
I definately see what Ann Douglas(whoever that is) is getting at. Of course, I have to admit a certain sort of bias towards the thought process though since I have tendancies towards pretending to be an intellectual. I remember reading something in C.S. Lewis that spoke of how marvelous he thought Christianity was because it was equally inviting to 'the masses' and 'the educated'.
Re: 'not bad at all' - agreed. Compared to some of the horrible periods that the church has gone through, commiting atrocities in the name of Christ... this ain't nuthin'. :)
all have sinned and fallen short..
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