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Defining the Future: Response 1

Rick Warren and Jim Wallis are to the first decade of the twenty-first century what James Dobson and John Howard Yoder were to the final decades of the twentieth. Building on the success of his The Purpose Driven® Church (1995), Warren's The Purpose Driven® Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (2001) became the self-help book for evangelical Christians. As the book flap promised, "Knowing God's purpose for creating you will reduce your stress, focus your energy, simply your…
Judy Tanis Parr
May 1, 2010
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Out of This World: Viewing Life Sub Specie Aeternitatis

"When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after," wrote Blaise Pascal, "I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there." (Pensées, 205)  The seventeenth-century mathematician and philosopher expressed a point of view shared by the Psalmist (Psalm 8:3-9), though without the Psalmist's confidence in the Creator's providence. The vision of life under the aspect of eternity, sub specie aeternitatis, is one reflected on by poets, saints, philosophers, and…
Judy Tanis Parr
March 16, 2004