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On my shelf at home I have a copy of:
Has anyone read it?
A New Heaven and a New Earth by Richard Middleton
Has anyone read it?
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So his position is unbiblical? Is there anything good in it?I've read his essay in Four Views on Heaven. Michael Allen does a good job responding to him.
Probably.On my shelf at home I have a copy of:
A New Heaven and a New Earth by Richard Middleton
Has anyone read it?
So his position is unbiblical? Is there anything good in it?
Thank you!A better read might be Grounded in Heaven by Michael Allen (as Jacob alluded to). It is the only exposure I've had to Middleton, but from the citations within where Allen responds to Middleton, I'd rather put my time elsewhere. As he notes, there is a tendency in some modern Kuyperian thought to displace the heavenly with the earthly. There is a connection I saw when reading it between that form of Kuyperianism and the infiltration of progressive (political and ethical) thought into Reformed circles, but it's not something I could pin down with precision at the moment.
A better read might be Grounded in Heaven by Michael Allen (as Jacob alluded to). It is the only exposure I've had to Middleton, but from the citations within where Allen responds to Middleton, I'd rather put my time elsewhere. As he notes, there is a tendency in some modern Kuyperian thought to displace the heavenly with the earthly. There is a connection I saw when reading it between that form of Kuyperianism and the infiltration of progressive (political and ethical) thought into Reformed circles, but it's not something I could pin down with precision at the moment.
I've noticed the same thing. It's a curious pitfall of insisting that Christ is Lord of everything and then getting your categories for everything from a non-Christian source, or assuming that lordship is undifferentiated, or both.
For instance, if Christ is lord of the mind in an undifferentiated way, then Christ is Lord of any academic field. And then we've subtly snuck the most absurdly illegitimate of pseudo-intellectual disciplines under the aegis of Christ's name. It's important to understand that Christ is Lord of some things in order to destroy them (such as lies).