Monday, February 26, 2007
Inventing Holy Days is a good thing
I'm sure you all read Revd Dr Peter Leithart's blog, but just in case, here he is very briefly making the Biblical case for holy days and adding extra ones without a special command of God. If you don't you're probably a gnostic who thinks nothing much of church history and forgets that God is winning the victory day to day, though you might not know it! Or something like that.
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What new days would you recommend, Marc?
Leithart says he thinks the medieval RC church over did it.
I think one or two a month might be about right: so maybe 12 people and 12 other "events" would be ideal.
Some of these are not new but I might have:
Augustine, Bishop, theologian and pastor, Father
Calvin, pastor and theologoian, Doctor
We'd need to search out someone in between. Its all a blank to me. Was Boniface a good thing?
There could be reagonal variation so David, Patrick, Andrew and I suppose George. Augustine of Canturbury and the celtic saints.
Maybe Thanksgiving should go global as US is so significant and such a blessing to the world
C. S. Lewis, scholar, author, apologist
Maybe Warfield, theologian, polemicist
Perhaps in 100 years time Van Til and in 200 years Doug Wilson?!
Reformation Day
Oak Hill Day
Corpus Christi and Candlemas seem good to me.
Not Christ The King - according to N T Wright in For All The Saints
Must dash.
Got to lead in chapel.
Our good friend the Apostle Paul also commented on this subject. He said: "You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain." (Galatians 4:10-11)
and "Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ." (Colossians 2:16-17)
There's also a bit in Romans 14 of course.
Is Paul among the gnostics condemned by Mr. Leithart? :-D
But the text of Rm 14 is important, wouldn't you say?
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord.
The one who observes the day observes in honour of the Lord.
Nothing about how not observing the day honours the Lord, I note.
Where are Paul (the Christian not Jewish Sabbath keeper)'s sympathies
, I wonder?
We compare his statement that the weak eat only vegetables. I'm pretty certain Paul is into feast days with meat.
Lee: sure, no need to have Jewish feast days. That'd be weird after Christ has come, esp now the OC order has been finally destroyed. But that doesn't address the issue of Christian feast days and a Christian calendar.
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