This has been on my mind a lot. I think it’s interesting that people are going to Eastern Orthodoxy and Bethel for basically the same reason: because they want church to feel more special. We have to do a better job of teaching people the power of traditional corporate worship.
Nov 25, 2023·edited Nov 25, 2023Liked by J.M. Robinson
Your vision of a Protestant Rivendell reminds me of Ransom's proposal at the end of Out of the Silent Planet: "What we need for the moment is not so much a body of beliefs as a body of people familiarized with certain ideas. If we could even effect in one percent of our readers a change-over from the conception of Space to the conception of Heaven, we should have made a beginning" (154). My only question is whether this body of people should be understood primarily as an organization (along the lines of Canon Press or Theopolis Institute) or as an organism (a more informal, loose association of like-minded thinkers that transcends and cuts across institutional boundaries).
This has been on my mind a lot. I think it’s interesting that people are going to Eastern Orthodoxy and Bethel for basically the same reason: because they want church to feel more special. We have to do a better job of teaching people the power of traditional corporate worship.
Your vision of a Protestant Rivendell reminds me of Ransom's proposal at the end of Out of the Silent Planet: "What we need for the moment is not so much a body of beliefs as a body of people familiarized with certain ideas. If we could even effect in one percent of our readers a change-over from the conception of Space to the conception of Heaven, we should have made a beginning" (154). My only question is whether this body of people should be understood primarily as an organization (along the lines of Canon Press or Theopolis Institute) or as an organism (a more informal, loose association of like-minded thinkers that transcends and cuts across institutional boundaries).