By Robert M. Price
Pastor Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven existence has been either a commercially profitable most sensible vendor and a generally influential ebook within the Christian group. As a rejoinder to the fundamentalist assumptions of Warren’s publication, Robert fee, a biblical pupil, a member of the Jesus Seminar, and a former liberal Baptist pastor, deals this witty, considerate, and particular critique. Following the concise forty-chapter constitution of Warren’s publication, Price’s point-counterpoint technique emphasizes the significance of cause in realizing life’s realities instead of Warren’s devotional point of view.
Price, who was a born-again Christian in his adolescence, is in a special place to provide an appreciation of the knowledge that Warren stocks whereas even as not easy a lot of his details. specifically, cost takes factor with Warren’s use of diverse scriptural quotations, demonstrating what number of them have little to do with the issues Warren is attempting to make. a huge part of the booklet indicates that the preferred evangelical idea of "a own courting with Jesus Christ" is totally with none scriptural basis.
Besides feedback, expense additionally offers many persuasive arguments for using cause as a device for constructing ethical adulthood and an clever, lifelike viewpoint on life’s highs and lows. finally, the reason-driven existence bargains a more fit, replacement method of knowledge and motivation, says expense, than the simplistic solutions and feel-good emotionalism on the middle of Warren’s prescription for all times.
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He cannot have created us to love because he was lovestarved. No, Christian theology says he created simply to share the wonder of his love with a wider audience. Hindu theology puts it slightly differently: God created the universe as an act of play. Either way, theologians understood Camus's point: if God were to create at all, it must be a gratuitous creative act. It must be for art's sake. I will not take for granted that there is a God, but I prefer coherent God concepts to incoherent ones, theologies that make some sense to those that are merely blind assertions of superstition and mythology.
You have to create it! I like what Albert Camus said about art and why it must be gratuitous, why it must serve no purpose, neither to educate nor to propagandize: the artistic creation is a gesture of freedom, and toward freedom. It serves no purpose, obeys no command, does not labor to convey a message. It does not promote agendas. This is why, for example, we look askance at the old Socialist Realism of the USSR. That stuff was little more than sculpted political slogans. It was not art for art's sake.