{"id":1741,"date":"2012-04-02T16:05:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2012-04-02T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:05:22","slug":"let_us_affirm_out_faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1741","title":{"rendered":"Let us affirm our faith…"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those who have ears to hear!<\/em> The following quote comes by way of Kendra Creasy Dean in her book, “Almost Christan: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church”<\/em> (2010), p. 70. Dean was one of the researchers for the “National Study of Youth and Religion.”<\/p>\n

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“Creeds are articulated beliefs. The theologian William Placher defends the importance of creeds by citing Lionel Trilling: <\/p>\n

‘It is probably true that when the dogmatic principle in religion is slighted, religion goes along for awhile on generalized emotion and ethical intention — morality touched by emotion – [but] then it loses the force of Its impulse and even the essence of Its Being…<\/p>\n

‘Even if I have a warm personal relationship with Jesus, I also need an account of what’s so special about Jesus to understand why my relationship with him is so important. If I think about dedicating my life to following him, I need an idea about why he’s worth following. Without such accounts and ideas, Christian feeling and Christian behavior start to fade to generalized warm fuzziness and social conventions.'”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Find the book on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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