Wednesday 29 August 2012
Most evangelical Christian worldview thinking is dominated by law, not gospel, by God’s first not his last word. It sets up philosophical, aesthetic, social, and political parameters to guard the Christian or offers a way for a Christian to “engage” (re: defend himself against) culture. But JNE reminds evangelicals that grace cannot be controlled and it cannot be cooperated with. It can only be responded to, in freedom. It is grace, not law, that is remaking the world. It is, as Aslan calls it, a “deeper magic. Jesus+Nothing=Everything & Theology of Culture ☀
