Re: [asa] The ASA and the Soft Sciences (ASA focus for the future)

Richard

I like that picture but there is a certain amount of this kind of
self-destructive attitude over in the UK.

Note that churches in the past have been given the Ichabod e.g. North
Africa, Cappadocia in Turkey

Michael

> If there is a crisis it's in the American church and it's a crisis of a
> failure to have humility and perspective. I am deliberately painting in
> broad strokes here but please indulge my hyperbole to illustrate. We
> don't listen:
>
> 1. To other bodies through a rejection of connectionalism, a.k.a
> denominations
> 2. To history through the rejection of tradition
> 3. To nature through the rejection of science
> 4. To other nations through American exceptionalism
> 5. To outside experts or "elites" of any sort through crass populism and
> anti-intellectualism
>
> To be sure, this doesn't mean there is crisis in the Church Universal but
> do we really want the American church to be named Ichabod (the glory has
> departed)?
>
> Rich Blinne
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Received on Sat Jan 3 11:20:18 2009