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Engaging the Culture - Book Review
Written by Douglas Wilson   
Saturday, 11 April 2009 09:59

Just finished a fantastic book on preaching called Why Johnny Can't Preach. We have to add it to our Greyfriars' list. It is just superb. Well, mostly superb -- he has a few pages on "culture war" that are an odd mixture of astounding insight and barking madness. But that should not be surprising -- just as T. David Gordon maintains in this book that electronically massaged mush-for-brains Americans can't preach, so also I maintain that in the last two hundred and twenty years, only seventeen Americans, approximately, have thought in a straight line on the relationship of the City of God to this American Republic. I do not include myself in that seventeen, incidentally, but on my good days, I admire them and say hey on the street to them, giving that little head nod that says I am cool with them.



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David Paul Regier  Sunday, April 12, 2009 12:07 am
Give us names, Doug.
Jon Beck  Monday, April 13, 2009 2:16 am
Mead? his father was an episcopalian minister, anyway his last couple books have been superb. good writer
Tim Prussic  Monday, April 13, 2009 7:41 am
WE WANT NAMES. WE WANT NAMES. WE WANT NAMES.
John Rabe  Monday, April 13, 2009 8:02 am
I'd really like to see someone do an in-depth critique of the "two kingdoms" model propounded by the Modern Reformation guys. I really enjoyed Horton's "Christless Christianity" a few months ago, but it was marred by the same problems.
Jane Dunsworth  Tuesday, April 14, 2009 1:15 am
Well, FWIW, I've heard T. David Gordon preach on many occasions, and he knows how. So at least he's got cred on the main point.
oldfatslow  Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:32 am
Psalm 74:9


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oldfatslow  Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:35 am
The old prayer book version

is better and oddly, it's 74:10:

"We see not our tokens; there

is not one prophet more; no,

not one is there among us, that

understandeth any more."





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