Re: [asa] dawkins and unbelief (again)

Ok, I was trying to drop out of this thread, but I just have to pop back in
for this. Why in heaven's name would you want to hijack a thread about an
anti-religious bigot like Richard Dawkins and compare him to a preacher like
Tony Campolo? Do you think God does not in some way transcend rational
categories of thought? Is the finite human mind really capable of
possessing God? If you're that much of a rationalist, I'd say you're just
the "religious" side of the Dawkins coin. Personally, I'll stick with the
classical Christian notion that our human understanding of God is analogical
because God is ultimately ineffable. Give me the Desert Fathers and Campolo
over Descartes and Geisler any day.

BTW, looking at the entire article you linked about the Call to Renewal,
notice who else signed on: "Other Call endorsers include Myron Augsburger
of the Christian College Coalition, Steve Haynes of InterVarsity Christian
Fellowship, Roberta Hestenes of Eastern College, and J. I. Packer of
Christianity Today." Is Campolo himself often too far out in left field?
Yes. But I'm glad he and other more moderate evangelicals emphasize that
our first calling in the public sphere is to the poor and oppressed, not to
ourselves.

On 4/2/07, Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> At 03:31 PM 4/2/2007, Ted Davis wrote:
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> As Liddle writes in another place, Dawkins' latest book is a "broadside
against God and those who are stupid enough to believe in him, or her, or
it."
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> @ Which came first, the Dawkins or the Campolo?
>
> "..God is beyond the rational categories of thought. You can only
surrender to her, you got that?!" he proclaimed to applause. "That little
shift. He is beyond that. She is beyond that. God is a presence. .." ~ Tony
Campolo http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/RELEFTCO.TXT
>
> ~ Janice
>

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