The Gospel Coalition is not necessarily ‘my cup of tea’ (too modernistic, exclusive, aggressive, and Calvinist for my taste). but from time to time you can find good things on their websites. Like this one, on ‘clean ways to fight over doctrine’ (if one absolutely has to, which Gospel Coalition people always do; one may possibly say ‘overdo’). Anyway, here they are:
Leonard Cohen’s song, “Anthem,” states in the refrain: “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” That is a much more poetic way of naming what we unfortunately called “original sin”—a poor choice of words because the word sin implies fault and culpability, and that is precisely not the point! Original sin was trying to warn us that the flaw at the heart of all reality is nothing we did personally, but that there is simply “a crack in everything” and so we should not be surprised when it shows itself in us or in everything else. It keeps us patient, humble, and less judgmental. Continue reading “Fr. Richard Rohr – ‘Real Meaning’ vs ‘Literal Meaning’ of Doctrine”
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