{"id":11616,"date":"2017-02-10T08:07:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dminlgp.com\/?p=11616"},"modified":"2017-02-10T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:07:23","slug":"w-htm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/w-htm\/","title":{"rendered":"My Hacked Blog on Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
One of my favorite family vacations every year is not on an island or a lake.\u00a0 No, my bliss is found in the mountains.\u00a0 Every year we load up our kids and go to Utah or Colorado for a bit of skiing.\u00a0 My oldest daughter, Clara, is a great little skier.\u00a0 In her young age of ten, she has already mastered blue slopes and has even done a few blacks.\u00a0 Last year in Park City on the mountain, I took the wrong turn and we ended up on a black diamond together that was very narrow. There was no fencing on the edges and it ran straight down for about a quarter of a mile.\u00a0 As we got to the edge, Clara was scared out of her mind.\u00a0 I reminded her of the basics all the while fearing for her life.\u00a0 As I stood at the top (I always go last in case she falls, I can ski to her), I watched her begin to carve up the mountain like a champ.\u00a0 She made it all the way down without a fall which is more than what I can say. When we got down to the base, I made her turn around to see what she just accomplished. I wanted her to see the steep run from the base.\u00a0 Her perspective changed looking up the mountain.\u00a0 She was not nearly as afraid as when she was looking down.\u00a0 For her, it was all about perspective.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mark Noll\u2019s Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind is his follow up to his popular yet controversial book <em>The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. \u00a0While the latter takes a negative tone in regards to Evangelical intellectualism, the former points to a way forward for Evangelicals in intellectual pursuits.\u00a0 Starting with a view of the glory of God and the ancient creeds, Noll believes that Evangelical must root themselves in classical theology.\u00a0 He states, \u201cIf Evangelicals are to make a genuinely Christian contribution to intellectual life, they must ground faith in the traditions of classical Christian theology, for these are the traditions that reveal the heights and depths of Jesus Christ (p. 22).\u201d\u00a0 From here, Noll unveils how the pursuit of Christ is not something evangelicals should shy away from but in reality it should be the center of their lives.\u00a0 In other words, everything an evangelical views should be viewed from this mountain top.\u00a0 Noll\u2019s book teaches us where our perspective should be as Christians.\u00a0 Christ is the center of everything.\u00a0 Noll takes this concept and brilliant unpacks it.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reflection<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
As I look upon the Christian landscape, I do not always see this Christocentric approach.\u00a0 Often times, Christian thinking, beliefs, approach to politics and science gets hijacked and replaced.\u00a0 Evangelicals in America do not center their lives from a Christian perspective rather they center on the American ideal.\u00a0 This often times devalues what we do. Statistically, this is driving Millennials away from the church as well (Gabe Lyons and David Kinneman, UnChristian). I think Noll\u2019s point is to pull us back to being Christocentric.\u00a0 For instance, should American Evangelical Christians side with the immigrant or side with politics?\u00a0 At first glance when I am confronted with the question, I immediately begin to answer according to our American ideal and values and not necessarily the ideals from a Christocentric perspective.\u00a0 I could add more examples, but one will suffice.\u00a0 While Noll paints a bleak picture for the Evangelical in <em>Scandal of the Evangelical Mind<\/em>, his emphasis on historic theology and Christ-centeredness is the way forward not only for the Evangelical but for the church as a whole.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Noll forces this perspective in his brilliant book.\u00a0 Evangelicals have to start with a different approach to thinking which Christ is if it hopes to grow and develop intellectually.\u00a0 After all for Noll, Christ is the fountain head in which all knowledge flows.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite family vacations every year is not on an island or a lake.\u00a0 No, my bliss is found in the mountains.\u00a0 Every year we load up our kids and go to Utah or Colorado for a bit of skiing.\u00a0 My oldest daughter, Clara, is a great little skier.\u00a0 In her young age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-11616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-noll","cohort-lgp6"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}