[Roundtable] FW: Spiritual Slackers in Birkenstocks

[Jefferis Peterson]

Great Articles from Mars Hill Audio. If you go to the link there is an
especially powerful insight into the Episcopal Church's stance on
homosexuality as inevitably reflecting the logical consequence of autonomous
individualism - the ideal of a liberal society...

> MacIntyre labeled this dominant attitude toward moral understanding
> "emotivism," defined precisely (in After Virtue) as follows: "Emotivism is the
> doctrine that all evaluative judgments and more specifically all moral
> judgments are nothing but expressions of preference, expressions of attitude
> or feeling, insofar as they are moral or evaluative in character." [p. 11f.]
> Later, MacIntyre observed: "[T]o a large degree people now think, talk and act
> as if emotivism were true, no matter what their avowed theoretical standpoint
> may be. Emotivism has become embodied in our culture. But of course in saying
> this I am not merely contending that morality is not what it once was, but
> also and more importantly that what once was morality has to some large degree
> disappeared‹and that this marks a degeneration, a grave cultural loss."
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From: MARS HILL AUDIO - Ken Myers <heetderks at marshillaudio.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:25:32 -0500
To: jefferis at petersonsales.net
Subject: Spiritual Slackers in Birkenstocks

Quinque, Virginia
February 13, 2004

To: Mr. Jefferis Peterson

Dear Subscribers and Friends of Mars Hill Audio,

Few theologians have as perceptive a sense of the deep disorders of
contemporary culture (and the challenges those disorders present to the
Church) as R. R. Reno. So MARS HILL AUDIO is proud to be able to share with
our friends two chapters from his recent book, *In the Ruins of the Church:
Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminished Christianity*.

In "Postmodern Irony and Petronian Humanism," Reno examines "the
contemporary allergy to authority and flight from truth," which in concert
yield an intense and debilitating "horror of obedience." In such a setting,
the Church should challenge its disciples by nurturing spiritual ambition
and courage.

The second essay, "Sex in the Episcopal Church," was written before the
current controversy concerning Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, but
analyses many of the cultural dynamics at work in the Episcopal Church,
drawing heavily from David Brooks's portrayal of "Bourgeois Bohemians" (in
his book *Bobos in Paradise*).

Both of these essays are available for download (in PDF format; see link
below) for a limited time, thanks to the book's publisher, Brazos Press.

Ken Myers
Host and Producer
MARS HILL AUDIO Journal


For links to selections from *In the Ruins of the Church: Sustaining Faith
in an Age of Diminished Christianity* see
http://www.marshillaudio.org/resources/default.asp#resource1

For more resources on homosexuality see
http://www.marshillaudio.org/resources/topic_detail.asp?ID=310


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