https://www.quakerranter.org/term_of_the_day_therepeutic_in/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.quakerranter.org/term_of_the_day_therepeutic_in/#comment-595 Wed, 06 Apr 2005 02:13:44 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=145#comment-595 Oh my. I finally followed the link to the review. It is very interesting to me that they found the same watering down of religious content across religious traditions. This is my favorite part:
“The authors really seem to care about these kids, who, in being treated by most adults like rebellious aliens, have been entirely misserved. The instrumentalist parasite of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism is killing off the ‘historically key ideas in America’s main religious tradition, Christianity’: ‘repentance, love of neighbor, social justice, unmerited grace, self-discipline, humility, the cost of discipleship, dying to self, the sovereignty of God, personal holiness, the struggles of sanctification, glorifying God in suffering, hunger for righteousness.’ And this is lamentable.”
This does describe a lot of what is happening, doesn’t it?

]]> https://www.quakerranter.org/term_of_the_day_therepeutic_in/#comment-594 Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:35:54 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=145#comment-594 Hello…
So glad I found your pages. Almost embarrassed to say that I am a native of Richmond Indiana…Earlham College,Dr. Elton Trueblood, Rich Mullins, and, as a young ministerial student groping for truth..The Quaker Hill Bookstore.
Your writing has been a time of “refreshing” for me..
Be Blessed,
Mike

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