Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Islamification of American Evangelicalism

Keith Drury wrote an interesting post a while back entitled: Islamification of American Evangelicalism.

He muses about 6 things we might see if Christians were take pointers from Islam:
1) Elevation of the Father over the other members of the Trinity
2) The glory of God is all that matters.
3) Elevation of males and subordination of women
4) Destiny
5) Nationalizing religious values
6) Holy war

He doesn't mention or even allude to Calvinism in the post, but I definitely see points 1-4 as applicable to the Calvinist system.

Drury is a professor/pastor at Indiana Wesleyan University. If you haven't checked out his site, give it a look. There's lots of good stuff there. He is opinionated, yet also has a knack for addressing serious topics in a disarming manner. (note: use IE on his site, firefox doesn't seem to render pages correctly)

6 comments:

SLW said...

Interesting that you made the Calvin connection-- the same thing popped into my mind as I was reading the points. Calvinism and and Islam, strange bedfellows, hmmm.

Kyle said...

I would add: Determinism

Kyle said...

If you are interested in seeing me tango with some 5-pointers, take a look:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11738269&postID=3964142526068105584&page=1

Kyle said...

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?
blogID=11738269&postID=3964142526
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Kevin Jackson said...

Nicely done Kyle. I love how you go on the offense.

Kyle said...

Pizza man,

I have found that when you put Calvinists on the defense, suddenly they get really quiet (or launch ad hominems!)

I really don't hate Calvinists, I hope people don't get the wrong impression. But I do hate Calvinism.