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Beliefs, Practices, History
- The Bible (28) : Defense, Criticism & Interpretation
- The Church (30) : Praise, Explanation & Criticism
- Gospel & Theology (42) : Story, Message, Doctrine
- Spirituality (19) : Experience, Worship & the Spirit
The God Who is There (1968)
Where was the conviction that to wage war against inequality is the
church's responsibility and not a political ideology? Where were those
farsighted believers who could offer a voice of reason and hope to the
task? Where was the manpower and funding to carry out this visible love
of Christ? Why do we always settle for hindsight instead of foresight,
reproducing instead of originating, getting on the bandwagon instead of
leading the charge? Because a spirit of anti-intellectualism keeps us
uninformed we can only attack and not contribute.
Mere Christianity (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996 [first published 1943]), p.81
You will find this again and again about anything that is really
Christian: every one is attracted by bits of it and wants to pick out
those bits and leave the rest. That is why we do not get much further:
and that is why people who are fighting for quite opposite things can
both say they are fighting for Christianity.