In chapter 4 of Creation in Six Days, which in my not-so-humble opinion is by itself worth the price of the book, James B. Jordan argues that gnosticism is not an ordinary heresy, but a tendency to tranform "history into ideology and facts into philosophy." The distressing prevalence of this gnostic tendency within confessional presbyterian circles is evidenced, again in my not-so-humble-opinion, by the way sermons which fail to preach Christ crucified, but do argue for predestination, are readily received as "reformed."
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
While we're at it
In chapter 4 of Creation in Six Days, which in my not-so-humble opinion is by itself worth the price of the book, James B. Jordan argues that gnosticism is not an ordinary heresy, but a tendency to tranform "history into ideology and facts into philosophy." The distressing prevalence of this gnostic tendency within confessional presbyterian circles is evidenced, again in my not-so-humble-opinion, by the way sermons which fail to preach Christ crucified, but do argue for predestination, are readily received as "reformed."
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