The blazing mass of lyrically amazing words thrown together by Carl Trueman here in his new article at Reformation21 pretty much melted my face off, let alone any postmodern communally driven, social anarchists.
A few excepts to season your tastebuds:
"He doesn't write books; he merely does the evangelical equivalent of lip-synching, more akin to Britney Spears than Martin Luther...
Before I switch my flamethrower to `Total Righteous Destruction' (did a Presbyterian just actually say that? Im not alone!) it is worth reflecting for a few moments on ....
I also believe it can involve clear intellectual theft, albeit a kind of ironic theft with permission (get ready for the massacre)...
It is rather like buying a Pink Floyd album, only to find that the music and the singing has been done by a cover group; all the original band have done is lip synch. We would regard that as unacceptable in secular pop music, as witness the cases of the awful Milli Vanilli and the unthinkably bad Boney-M...
Or is this just one more area where Christians actually in the vanguard of setting new levels of ethical and cultural mediocrity?
(drum roll please) Of course, this ties in with one of my pet peeves: that the evangelical subculture simply replicates (usually in a more mediocre way) the practices, values, and behavioral patterns of the advanced consumerist societies in which we live."
Well don Prof. Trueman. Like Driscol says your putting the 'Fun' back into 'Fundamentalism'.
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