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[Nick Olson]

Over at CaPC, I did an "elsewhere" link to Jeffrey's Comment review.

We started receiving some traffic this morning from Tim Challies's blog, and, this afternoon, the piece received this comment from a fellow:

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But there is an obvious reason it didn’t catch on with evangelicals. It doesn’t reflect an understanding of what the Gospel is. For an evangelical it is depressing that these men give their lives without offering Life.

To which I said, in far more words, "huh?"

Conversation ensuing, and I don't think it's going to resolve well.

Edited by Nicholas, 07 March 2012 - 01:32 PM.

[SDG]

Nicholas, on 07 March 2012 - 01:31 PM, said:

We started receiving some traffic this morning from Tim Challies's blog, and, this afternoon, the piece received this comment from a fellow:

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But there is an obvious reason it didn’t catch on with evangelicals. It doesn’t reflect an understanding of what the Gospel is. For an evangelical it is depressing that these men give their lives without offering Life.

To which I said, in far more words, "huh?"

Conversation ensuing, and I don't think it's going to resolve well.

I addressed this issue here, although my definition of "the Gospel" as "God sent His Son Jesus to be born, to die and rise again to save us" is probably insufficient for this fellow, given his prejudicial, erroneous ideas about Romish "works salvation."

[Overstreet]

Nicholas: Your excerpt from my review is actually from the early, uncorrected version. An error in the last paragraph of your excerpt led to a lot of misunderstandings. If you could possibly update your excerpt to reflect the revised, corrected version of that paragraph, I would be grateful, and it might prevent some confusion among your readers.

Otherwise, thank you for linking to the article!

Edited by Overstreet, 07 March 2012 - 01:55 PM.

[Nick Olson]

Oh, yeah, I'll pass the edited version along to my editor to fix the piece.

Sorry about that!

[Nick Olson]

I may link to it, SDG, though I think you're right that it may not do any good for this fellow to see a review from the National Catholic Register.

...which is sad. I'm as frustrated as you are by the attitude reflected in his comments.

***Taken care of, Jeffrey.

Edited by Nicholas, 07 March 2012 - 02:11 PM.

[BethR]

E-mail interview with Trappist monks adds some insight to this film, as well as to Into Great Silence

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[On] one level ... silence is in our lives to create an ambience of recollection so I'll remember and honor God's presence. On another level, silence reminds me that the misuse of words, the abuse of language can also be the sinful abuse of people; silence for us means not talking, more than not making noise… On yet another level, silence means listening. We follow the Rule of St. Benedict and the first word of that Rule is "Listen." That's the great ethical element of silence: to check my words and listen to another point of view. I'll never have any real peace should my sense of well-being depend on soundless peace. When I can learn the patience of receiving, in an unthreatened way, what I'd rather not hear, then I can have a real measure of peace in any situation.

Edited by BethR, 12 June 2012 - 02:01 PM.