Think Christian Reading

A bit of ThinkChristian reading this morning. A review of the Hunger Games.

Also a piece on atheists borrowing from religion. That brought me to the concept of the heat death of the universe.

Also a very interesting piece on facts and narrative taking off on the Mike Daisey scandal over FoxConn and Apple. Wonderfully laid out. Here is my comment.

Oh my, you’ve got us all up into the facts v narrative dilemma that any serious student of the gospel accounts can’t avoid. We run into it with Adam and Eve and genetics, with the flood and modern geology, and then in Holy Week with whether Jesus quotes Psalm 22 (Matt and Mark) or Ps 31 (Luke) or both, etc.

What a lovely illustration with Mike Daisey, you laid it out so beautifully but I can’t help feel that you punted on your conclusion. Are we not too far from the other TC piece I read this AM on Atheists appropriating the technique of religion in order to receive it’s deliverable goods apart from metaphysical assertions of “fact”?

We must get our hands dirty with both facts and narrative yet we are necessarily (and happily so) masters of neither. We are witnesses of, heirs and participants in this world with truths to large for our short little arms.

The experiential payload is in the narrative and but it’s hollow without the concreteness of the fact, as Paul presses in 1 Cor 15.

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Also found, Was Calvin a Calvinist? by Richard Muller.