tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19722540.post6465158236107971696..comments2023-09-09T07:28:35.681-04:00Comments on Science and Religion: A View from an Evolutionary Creationist: D.H. Williams: Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious ProtestantsJimpithecushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10143519573877156940noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19722540.post-10395357369544970002015-12-26T13:04:13.580-05:002015-12-26T13:04:13.580-05:00I read a few of Williams books back in 2006. It wa...I read a few of Williams books back in 2006. It was at the beginning of the exciting process of discovering Tradition. A couple of other books began to reveal, however, that evangelicals cold not help but do what the Reformers also did with the tradition, pick and choose from it based on whether it agrees with their own reading of the Bible, which inevitably perpetuates the incessant division we already see.<br />The ancient Conciliar church didn't operate this way and schism is never an option available to them. <br />Why appeal to Chalcedonian Christology yet reject most of the other beliefs and practices? My journey came down to questions of authority, and taking myself out of the place of determining what the church looks like based on my interpretation of scripture, despite sprinkling on a few things of the Tradition that I agreed with. <br />Don't limit your investigation to western church writers, whether ancient or recent. Remember, the Reformers operated under the same Augustinian paradigm as Rome. Augustine/Anselm/Aquinas is a different trajectory altogether from the eastern father's. Canadianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01320583233909625727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19722540.post-43778996256145258352015-12-26T08:57:51.834-05:002015-12-26T08:57:51.834-05:00Hi Jim, I would love to comment about your purchas...Hi Jim, I would love to comment about your purchase, but I don't see the picture of a book that you obviously intended to include after the first sentence. As I am reading it now, your post has only whitespace between "Amazon store:" and "As readers of this blog." Chris Falterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06428157849749887265noreply@blogger.com