eing a "Simple-Minded Jesus Lover" Is No Excuse for Really Bad Theology
Being a "Simple-Minded Jesus Lover" Is No Excuse for Really Bad Theology
Alan Chambers dodges the real issue at hand and inadvertently plays the role of judge
by Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph.D.
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
http://www.robgagnon.net/AlanChambersCTResponseShort.htm
July 19, 2012
Alan Chambers has responded in Christianity Today to the controversy surrounding his public assurances to "gay Christians" that they will go to heaven irrespective of lifelong, self-affirming homosexual practice (read the news story in CT by Weston Gentry: "Exodus International's Alan Chambers Accused of Antinomian Theology, July 12, 2012). Chambers, who is president of Exodus International, uses four flawed strategies in his article, "Thoughts from a Simple-Minded Jesus Lover" (July 16, 2012). Alan's first strategy is to play the "aw, shucks" humble card. He's not a Bible scholar or a theologian, he says, but just a "simple-minded Jesus lover," neither Calvinist nor Arminian. As "just a Christian," Alan can rise above the controversy ("That argument is so last year") to tell us what the Bible really says. This posture, however, does not entitle him to avoid the hard work of actually reading Scripture contextually (as opposed to cherry-picking favorite texts) and revising his theology when others point out the problems in his interpretation of Scripture.[1]
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Alan Chambers dodges the real issue at hand and inadvertently plays the role of judge
by Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph.D.
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
http://www.robgagnon.net/AlanChambersCTResponseShort.htm
July 19, 2012
Alan Chambers has responded in Christianity Today to the controversy surrounding his public assurances to "gay Christians" that they will go to heaven irrespective of lifelong, self-affirming homosexual practice (read the news story in CT by Weston Gentry: "Exodus International's Alan Chambers Accused of Antinomian Theology, July 12, 2012). Chambers, who is president of Exodus International, uses four flawed strategies in his article, "Thoughts from a Simple-Minded Jesus Lover" (July 16, 2012). Alan's first strategy is to play the "aw, shucks" humble card. He's not a Bible scholar or a theologian, he says, but just a "simple-minded Jesus lover," neither Calvinist nor Arminian. As "just a Christian," Alan can rise above the controversy ("That argument is so last year") to tell us what the Bible really says. This posture, however, does not entitle him to avoid the hard work of actually reading Scripture contextually (as opposed to cherry-picking favorite texts) and revising his theology when others point out the problems in his interpretation of Scripture.[1]Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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