[Gunton Research Discussion Group] New comment on PhDs and Masters.

[Christian against Theocracy]

Christian against Theocracy has left a new comment on your post "PhDs and Masters":

I am writing a review for the monthly paper 'Evangelicals Now' on a book recently published by Rutherford House entitled 'Tolerance and Truth,' comprising papers delivered at the Edinburgh dogmatics conference in 1999(!). The opening paper is by Colin Gunton, entitled 'Revelation: do Christians know something no one else knows?' He argues that our 'knowledge' of God is incarnational rather than propositional, and the notion of being saved by correct knowledge is the Gnostic error. At the end there is a very short 'uncomfortable conclusion' which at first reading seems to me not to fit with or follow from the rest of the piece. In this conclusion Gunton says; 'Modern individualism is offended that individuals should submit themselves to the dogmas of an institution, with the possible - and highly significant - exception of the state' and continues with an attack on 'political correctness' concluding that 'Jesus was not a tolerant man' and therefore the church will pay a price in the 'repressive postmodern world.'
Given that the paper is an old one, that the papers clearly do seem to have been revised during and since the conference, I wonder if any of you Gunton scholars can identify the original paper and whether it included this conclusion? Does this sound like authentic Gunton to you?

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Posted by Christian against Theocracy to Gunton Research Discussion Group at 11.11.07