Interesting turn in the comment line at ABP on Mohler and Biologos.
Will Campbell included in the story in what is taking on legendary status, Pressler's trek to see Jack Flanders at Baylor in regard People of the Covenant.
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"Let's You and Him Fight"
Posted by Mick Lee at January 20, 2011 11:21
One of the more uncommented upon aspects of the “civil war” was how many bystanders outside Missouri were urging both sides with the “let’s-you-and-him-fight” game. The Missouri conservative/moderate/liberal fight served as a proxy war for those who wanted an open slug-fest for the trans-denominational traditionalist/modernists hostilities without actually having to bear the wounds and consequences themselves. There was latent sense among all Missouri Lutherans was that it was about more than the LCMS alone.
What is of some interest today is how many wax poetic and breakout in rhapsody at the memory exiting Concordia and the Missouri Synod. Perhaps they were too young to march for civil rights or protest the Vietnam War; but by golly they stood up for truth, conscience and integrity! Nonetheless, many of these same folk cry in their beer about “dividing the body of Christ”, “love and fellowship”, “unity in the greater, essential articles of faith” as many exit the ELCA post-CWA. Where were these concerns with the exodus from the LCMS? Shouldn’t Christian love overridden the theological disagreement that propelled so many to leave the Missouri Synod? Shouldn’t agreement in the essential things of the faith have been enough? After all, just how important IS the theory of evolution compared to the doctrine of the Trinity? If some brothers and sisters in the faith really believed the world was created in six days, shouldn’t you have held them in fellowship for the sake of the body of Christ anyway?
Time has marched on and images change in the rearview mirror. Maybe all would do well to view those conflagrations of long ago with a more skeptical eye.
"Let's You and Him Fight"
Posted by John Hannah at January 20, 2011 14:09
I think you are right on. Burkee would likely agree; his sub title is: "A Conflict That Changed American Christianity."
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