tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post3621942776452304653..comments2024-03-29T04:31:15.219-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: A video begins the election season. . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-52097960655952794212016-04-03T14:50:47.083-05:002016-04-03T14:50:47.083-05:00CSL President Meyer's speech might have been c...CSL President Meyer's speech might have been credible if his seminary had not released in February, 2016, its news, "<a href="http://www.csl.edu/2016/02/acclaimed-yale-theologian-miroslav-volf-headlines-reformation500-event/" rel="nofollow">Acclaimed Yale theologian Miroslav Volf headlines ‘Reformation500’ event: Legacy of the Reformation will be highlighted</a>." The 2015 Reformation500 event, celebrating the legacy of the Reformation, had invited Reformed pastor Tullian Tchividjian to speak. A few months later Tullian's own scandalous legacy was revealed.<br /><br />But how does non-Lutheran Miroslav Volf fit into the Reformation and its legacy? In his article, "<a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2015/12/16/the-same-god-12/" rel="nofollow">The “Same” God?, Volf Speaks</a>," Scot McKnight writes:<br /><br /><i>Miroslav Volf, Professor at Yale, on the dedication page of his new [2011] book — </i>Allah: A Christian Response<i>, says this: "To my father, a Pentecostal minister who admired Muslims, and taught me as a boy that they worship the same God as we do."</i><br /><br />In his <a href="http://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2171&context=leaven" rel="nofollow">Book Review</a> of Volk's book, Brandon Tsark, a Pepperdine religion graduate student, wrote: <br /><br /><i>"Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God?... Volf offers a sustained ten-point argument that Christians and Muslims worship the same God."</i><br /><br />In "<a href="https://exposingheresy.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/allah-a-christian-response-book-review.pdf" rel="nofollow">A review of the book "Allah, a Christian response"</a>," Paul Dan writes:<br /><br /><i><b>Chrislam is Volf’s political theology in this work</b>. He does not explicitly call it so, but he clearly fleshes it out. The thesis of the book is that Allah and the God of the Bible are one and the same person....<br /><br />Volf appeals to Martin Luther. He acknowledges that Luther said that Christians and Muslims worship the same God because the reformer was under the threat of Turkish conquest (p. 60). Luther denies that the Muslims are saved as a result of their faith, which Volf does not like. As a result, he cites Erasmus of Rotterdam to counteract Luther. What did Erasmus say about the Turks? He claimed that the Turks are half Christians (p. 73). Then Volf asserts that Muslims can be saved even while having wrong convictions about God, and that their belief in the Almightiness of God is good enough.</i> <br /><br />Didn't we identify this heresy in the previous Purple Palace regime and apologize for attempting to remove it in the current one? Now the author of this heresy is being trumpeted as a speaker at a seminary that was the home of other heresies four decades ago. And now the shepherd of that seminary is a candidate for synodical president.Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.com