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Originally Posted by TimV  Quote: |
In the coming days when the American Empire and the EUSSR began to attack Christianity overtly, this stuff by Wright will provide good ammo.
| Wright is so oily he makes an eel feel like sandpaper in comparison. He can't keep from the "edge" in the sense of double meanings. He'll take a story like Christ asking for a coin and saying "who's image is this" and then interpret "Give unto Caesar that which is Caesar" by more than half implying Christ was calling for revolution. He'll find a place in the Maccabees where the idiom "pay them back in their own coin" is used like the current English idiomatic expression and claim that's what Christ meant by "Give unto Caesar" in a lecture he gave that I read. And in another place he'll just throw the idea out but imply that He probably didn't mean it totally that way like here: Matthew for Everyone - Google Book Search
"Subvert the Empire" is a central theme of Wright. He'll complains that the rain forests are being destroyed for the needs of the Empire Quote: |
And the empire just goes and destroys another bit of the rain forest, because it needs it for whatever particular economic/political project it’s got.
| Response: The Seattle Pacific University Magazine
and then drink some tea grown on former rain forest land, and whether he sees it as inconsistant or not I have no idea. If the guy would just come out and say what he means people would be much less suspicious of him. |
The coin notwithstanding, his original point (subversion of empire) is quite provacative. I am all for subverting Empires, be they European or future American. Sure, he goes leftist on issues he should (Doug Wilson has given good responses to this) but he at least takes the challenge seriously. He rightly sees that the Gospel is political and not individualistic (in other words, he attacks the Enlightenment).