In stating in summary fashion the Christian conception of the Kingdom of God we are not pretending that we can see perfectly what this means, nor are we saying that we can arrive at a formal principle which can act as a rule by which
all Christian value judgments can be simply made.
Not exact matches
In any event, it was all fairly conventional, merrily venomous talk - radio ranting, and I would probably have forgotten it a moment afterward if, at the end, the woman speaker had not opined that this «Occupy business» was all a part of the decay of the «traditional
Christian values that built this nation» — a
judgment to which the other two assented vigorously.
Since the
judgment stands, and is no doubt explicitly represented in the thoughts of many of us as it is implicitly represented in the
value standards of the great dominant majority of Americans, of American
Christians and of American intellectuals, we must ask by what right, with what rightness can we honor Jonathan Edwards today?
Bachmann should not call her a
christian or claimed to have any
christian's
values, heh, what do I know, I'm just a Christ loving guy, and for the record I'm not passing
judgment I'm just saying I'm ashamed of her actions.
This would not be true if we went only so far as the «objective» historian can go and stopped with a recognition of the distinctiveness of the
Christian community and of the historical ground of that distinctiveness in Christ, without any
judgment of
value or truth.
The
Christian's decision about these two models of trade will hinge largely on
judgments of the
value and importance of maximum global economic growth.