Comments on: A Life of Hope http://brianmclain.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/a-life-of-hope/ Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:54:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Chris Donato http://brianmclain.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/a-life-of-hope/#comment-734 Chris Donato Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:01:47 +0000 http://brianmclain.wordpress.com/?p=318#comment-734 No, I haven't read Kik. Having an in-house post-millennialist like we do pretty much keeps me satisfied on that score. Incidentally, his new book, <a href="http://www.prpbooks.com/inventory.html?target=indiv_title&id=1716" rel="nofollow">From Age to Age</a>, just came out. No, I haven’t read Kik. Having an in-house post-millennialist like we do pretty much keeps me satisfied on that score. Incidentally, his new book, From Age to Age, just came out.

]]> By: brianmclain http://brianmclain.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/a-life-of-hope/#comment-733 brianmclain Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:57:06 +0000 http://brianmclain.wordpress.com/?p=318#comment-733 Yeah, there's probably a number of reasons, but this one was on my mind mostly because of the book... by the way, have you read it? I was probably generalizing too much... there are certainly some dispy's who don't act that way. But the separatists don't have an excuse either. Look at the Amish.... they make beautiful kitchen tables. Yeah, there’s probably a number of reasons, but this one was on my mind mostly because of the book… by the way, have you read it? I was probably generalizing too much… there are certainly some dispy’s who don’t act that way. But the separatists don’t have an excuse either. Look at the Amish…. they make beautiful kitchen tables.

]]> By: Chris Donato http://brianmclain.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/a-life-of-hope/#comment-732 Chris Donato Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:45:52 +0000 http://brianmclain.wordpress.com/?p=318#comment-732 Hey, man. I was looking for ways to disagree with you on this (early prohibitionists were not just the fundamentalists; some were "postmillennialists" too). I guess I'd say rather that dispensationalism certainly fans this flame, but the real crux seems to be the second-degree separationist, revivalistic (think: Finney and the 2nd great awakening) and individualistic mentalities of the more modern "fundamentalists" (read: most evangelicals). It's a dualism most insidious, because it deems creation evil while maintaining that their version of the church is the most pure. Hey, man. I was looking for ways to disagree with you on this (early prohibitionists were not just the fundamentalists; some were “postmillennialists” too).

I guess I’d say rather that dispensationalism certainly fans this flame, but the real crux seems to be the second-degree separationist, revivalistic (think: Finney and the 2nd great awakening) and individualistic mentalities of the more modern “fundamentalists” (read: most evangelicals). It’s a dualism most insidious, because it deems creation evil while maintaining that their version of the church is the most pure.

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