Chapter 5 - response to Peter
Now it's my turn to play catch-up.
Despite my increasingly hectic schedule as my grad program comes to an (hopefully not tragic) end, I think the two-chapter a week pace from here on out will work. I'll start with 6 & 7 on Sunday evening, PST.
The real problem about Frame's answer (the UCG and it's 'courts') is, as I think we've both hit upon, it's a circular argument. Frame thinks that such an institution would resolve the basic theological and praxical (is that a word? it is now) differences that separate the denominations. But you're never going to get denominations to voluntarily surrender themselves to such an organization with those issues unresolved. It's like a temporal paradox loop.
I was impressed with Peter's analysis tying this thing back to the present communions of Rome/Orthodoxy and the Protestant denominations. (Although, as a member of an Anglican church, I may be forced to take some small issue with his allergy to hierarchies in general... :-} ) I think it amply demonstrates the folly of trying to work this sort of unity out from a "top-down" standpoint. The question is, how can it be done locally, congregationally, from a "bottom-up" perspective? I'm *hoping* that Frame's book will have some more to say on this than it has up to this point. We'll start to see this Sunday.
Despite my increasingly hectic schedule as my grad program comes to an (hopefully not tragic) end, I think the two-chapter a week pace from here on out will work. I'll start with 6 & 7 on Sunday evening, PST.
The real problem about Frame's answer (the UCG and it's 'courts') is, as I think we've both hit upon, it's a circular argument. Frame thinks that such an institution would resolve the basic theological and praxical (is that a word? it is now) differences that separate the denominations. But you're never going to get denominations to voluntarily surrender themselves to such an organization with those issues unresolved. It's like a temporal paradox loop.
I was impressed with Peter's analysis tying this thing back to the present communions of Rome/Orthodoxy and the Protestant denominations. (Although, as a member of an Anglican church, I may be forced to take some small issue with his allergy to hierarchies in general... :-} ) I think it amply demonstrates the folly of trying to work this sort of unity out from a "top-down" standpoint. The question is, how can it be done locally, congregationally, from a "bottom-up" perspective? I'm *hoping* that Frame's book will have some more to say on this than it has up to this point. We'll start to see this Sunday.
posted by burttd at 11/10/2005 09:34:00 AM
1 Comments:
I think the more pedestrian "practical" would serve your needs.
Of course, if you wanted to say "pertaining to the study of or knowledge concerning (human) action," you could speak of the "praxeological"--but that would be going too far.
Cheers,
PGE
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