Comments on: Living Gently in a Violent World http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevinwax/2008/12/23/book-review-living-gently-in-a-violent-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-review-living-gently-in-a-violent-world Kingdom People - Living on Earth as Citizens of Heaven Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mick http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevinwax/2008/12/23/book-review-living-gently-in-a-violent-world/#comment-3479 Mick Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:06:46 +0000 http://trevinwax.wordpress.com/?p=2364#comment-3479 I respect both of these men and believe they are brothers in Christ. But you do bring out a corrective that needs to be heard with many of those who generally view Christ in the snippets you reference above. Dietich Bonhoeffer, who had a very strong incarnational and social justice theology, also equally as strong in his writing that our meeting and greeting one another was as grateful sinners who welcome and embrace each other as sinners beneath the cross of Christ. I respect both of these men and believe they are brothers in Christ. But you do bring out a corrective that needs to be heard with many of those who generally view Christ in the snippets you reference above. Dietich Bonhoeffer, who had a very strong incarnational and social justice theology, also equally as strong in his writing that our meeting and greeting one another was as grateful sinners who welcome and embrace each other as sinners beneath the cross of Christ.

]]> By: Anna http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevinwax/2008/12/23/book-review-living-gently-in-a-violent-world/#comment-3478 Anna Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:08:44 +0000 http://trevinwax.wordpress.com/?p=2364#comment-3478 Dear Trevin I am amazed by the Spirit of Truth revealing God's word to us and confirming His power in His word . We recognize lies and how amazing that truly is becomes evident when we read books that do not point to Jesus and His cross and God's grace !!! I am humbled again and again when I listen to people who are not born again and people who do not got to the word of God for counsel and wisdom ! My family is still blind and dead ....seperated from God and when we read books like the one you mentioned our heart either break or we have righteous anger and I hope that God will use us to point people to HIM ! JESUS is alive in us ! Wow ! Messiah our King is on His throne and we get to adore Him this CHRISTmas ! Dear Trevin
I am amazed by the Spirit of Truth revealing God’s word to us and confirming His power in His word . We recognize lies and how amazing that truly is becomes evident when we read books that do not point to Jesus and His cross and God’s grace !!!
I am humbled again and again when I listen to people who are not born again and people who do not got to the word of God for counsel and wisdom ! My family is still blind and dead ….seperated from God and when we read books like the one you mentioned our heart either break or we have righteous anger and I hope that God will use us to point people to HIM ! JESUS is alive in us ! Wow ! Messiah our King is on His throne and we get to adore Him this CHRISTmas !

]]> By: Trevin Wax http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevinwax/2008/12/23/book-review-living-gently-in-a-violent-world/#comment-3477 Trevin Wax Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:34:22 +0000 http://trevinwax.wordpress.com/?p=2364#comment-3477 Thanks, Liam. This was a frustrating book because in so many respects it articulates a clear, consistent Christian vision of life. But the theological affirmations then deny the distinctiveness of its witness. Yet I very much appreciate the pro-life (at all stages) stance of its authors. Thanks, Liam.

This was a frustrating book because in so many respects it articulates a clear, consistent Christian vision of life. But the theological affirmations then deny the distinctiveness of its witness. Yet I very much appreciate the pro-life (at all stages) stance of its authors.

]]> By: Liam Byrnes http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevinwax/2008/12/23/book-review-living-gently-in-a-violent-world/#comment-3480 Liam Byrnes Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:01:14 +0000 http://trevinwax.wordpress.com/?p=2364#comment-3480 Trevin, Thanks for your review. I very much appreciate your reviews and as you, had high hopes for this book as I have been stirred by Hauerwas in the past and his stories of Jean Vanier. I am grateful for your honest review on a book that would have probably been easy to slide with than to contest. Trevin, Thanks for your review. I very much appreciate your reviews and as you, had high hopes for this book as I have been stirred by Hauerwas in the past and his stories of Jean Vanier. I am grateful for your honest review on a book that would have probably been easy to slide with than to contest.

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