Jonah and Carl F. Henry
In working through lessons in Jonah, it brought a book to mind written by Carl F.H. Henry in 1947: "The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism."
In this book, more true than ever, Henry shows how Liberalism (i.e. the Social Gospel) is in error. Fairly, Henry also shows the Fundamentalism (attacking or retreating from Culture) is also wrong. There are so many parallels in Jonah to his concerns.
I am going to be brief today and just take one particularly prescient quote out of the book and leave it at that. Ponder this:
“Contemporary evangelicalism needs (1) to reawaken to the relevance of its redemptive message to the global predicament; (2) to stress the great evangelical agreements in a common world front; (3) to discard elements of its message which cut the nerve of world compassion as contradictory to the inherent genius of Christianity; (4) to restudy eschatological convictions for a proper perspective which will not unnecessarily dissipate evangelical strength in controversy over secondary positions, in a day when the significance of the primary insistences is international” (pp. 53-54)."
In this book, more true than ever, Henry shows how Liberalism (i.e. the Social Gospel) is in error. Fairly, Henry also shows the Fundamentalism (attacking or retreating from Culture) is also wrong. There are so many parallels in Jonah to his concerns.
I am going to be brief today and just take one particularly prescient quote out of the book and leave it at that. Ponder this:
“Contemporary evangelicalism needs (1) to reawaken to the relevance of its redemptive message to the global predicament; (2) to stress the great evangelical agreements in a common world front; (3) to discard elements of its message which cut the nerve of world compassion as contradictory to the inherent genius of Christianity; (4) to restudy eschatological convictions for a proper perspective which will not unnecessarily dissipate evangelical strength in controversy over secondary positions, in a day when the significance of the primary insistences is international” (pp. 53-54)."
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