The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

Day Off Week 5 2021

 


I forgot to include this update so I have backdated to where it should be. The main thing on Tuesday February 2 was reading this new book by Carl Trueman that people have been talking about. it's a 400 page book and I made quite  dentin it and have subsequently finished it. It is well written (except that Trueman thinks LGBQT+ is an acronym, where as it is an initialism) and gives a philosophical framework to help us understand what we are up against when we are are confronted by modern thinking. There is a lot to get through just to get that far but Trueman does it well, never  being boring or recondite. The reading for just this one book must be massive. We should be thankful to God for such a helpful handbook. Just today I saw in my newspaper that down in Brighton they are advising midwives to refer to chestfeeding rather than breastfeeding and human milk rather than breastmilk. This issue an others raised in this book are going to be with us for some time to come.

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