@danitreweek Don’t know if this helps but The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism by Daniel Hummel has a few notes on the historical spread of the movement. He argues that it’s largely a populist theology today and has experienced a significant decline among academics since the 1960s
@danitreweek It may be discomforting that married people are too ignorant of what it means to be single. Could not the same be said of single people toward married life? Given lower marriage rates & increasing divorce rates in the West, knowledge of mature marriage is even more unfamiliar?
@wesbos@HAJBlack “Credit cards” are a significant proportion of online purchasing but not all of these purchases are on credit - many are debit cards. I don’t think merchants can tell whether a purchase is from a credit or debit account?
Here are five expectations (adapted from Powlison) that a "therapeutic gospel" creates in Christians...
1. I expect to feel loved for who believe I am, to be pitied for what I imagine I've gone through, to automatically feel intimately understood, to be accepted unconditionally;
2. I expect to be treated and affirmed as a person of significance, to be successful in my career, to know my life matters, and to have an impact irrespective of my real-world skills or competencies;
3. I expect to have my self-esteem protected, to affirm that I am everything I should be, to be able to have my opinions and desires affirmed as good;
4. I expect to be entertained, to feel pleasure in the endless stream of performances designed to delight my eyes, tickle my ears, and affirm my self-concept;
5. I expect to feel safe and shielded from real-world risk and danger while experiencing life through the avatars of video games and influencers.
Expect to get a wake-up call.
@UsulPro@sanity_io Great write up.
Would have loved some more detail on the path generation so focused content links directly to the relevant field in the studio.
Where can I find this in the shared repo?
@pete_greenwood It’s easy for me to see it as very much an open handed issue. After all, I believe in baptising children and adults! Others, not so much.
@pete_greenwood I’ve always liked the covenant postulation. Circumcision (of Old Testament children) ≈ Baptism (of New Testament children). Both outwards signs of being participants in covenants established by God.