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Exchanging Biblical Doctrine for Religious Careers
Recently, Doug Wilson wrote a post entitled Rooted in the Heavens, regarding the DG conference, The Romantic Rationalist: God, Life, and Imagination in the Work of C.S. Lewis.
He says: The blogging has been light because I have been in Minneapolis for the Desiring God conference, which has been wonderful. The other speakers were John Piper, Phil Ryken, Kevin Vanhoozer, and Randy Alcorn, all of them speaking on some aspect of C.S. Lewis’s contribution to our understanding of the faith. The talks have been superb.
Ok, the talks may indeed be superb (whatever that entails) but I have to ask:
How can a man, C.S. Lewis, who believed in
- purgatory
- baptismal regeneration
- prayers for the dead
- praying to Apollo
and denied
- biblical inerrancy
- penal substitution, saying faith in the blood of Christ was unnecessary
and also lived with a woman – outside of marriage – for 30 years mind you
possibly have anything worthwhile to contribute to the understanding of the Christian faith as Dr. Wilson asserts?
You can listen to these men laud C.S. Lewis here, but, again, I must remind you: If C.S. Lewis truly believed what he wrote, he is in Hell, and has nothing to contribute to the faith, rather, he contributes only to honing discernment skills in recognizing rank heresy and blasphemy – now being lauded by those being recognized as ‘Christian leaders’.
What does that say about these who are so greatly influencing the Church and the young people in it?
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5 Pt. Salt 
Well said Joel.
While it’s true that a broken clock is right twice a day (hence, one might find the occasional useful tidbit amongst the piles of skubulon in Lewis), why not get a clock that works?!
Ex-Dominican priest turned evangelist Richard Bennett quipped that Lewis may be useful to read to learn how to better write, but is horrendous to go to learn theology!
Click to access CS_Lewis_a_Bridge_to_Rome.pdf
John Piper exalts men.
Here he weirdly justified Doug Wilson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2X078_VDjc
Weird is definitely the word. Wrong is brilliant? Careful theologian, but questionable ‘trajectory’? Baptismal regeneration, but “not another gospel?” Reminds me of a joke I once heard: Why don’t sharks eat lawyers?……Professional courtesy. Maybe the same can be said of why one false teacher stops short of calling out another.
This is to say nothing of the juvenile grinning, snickering and knuckle-bumping of the other two men on stage. Sickening.
Rather than “rooted in Heaven,” is Piper’s literary hero rotting in Hell?