Posted on 07/14/2024 8:55:25 PM PDT by fishtank
Metaxas's Counterfeit Bonhoeffer: An Evangelical Critique Review of Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile Vs. the Third Reich (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2010)
by Richard Weikart
Eric Metaxas's Bonhoeffer biography has won many accolades from evangelicals, not only because Metaxas is an excellent writer, but also because he serves up a Bonhoeffer suited to the evangelical taste. Many evangelicals admire Bonhoeffer and consider him a fellow evangelical. Metaxas's book confirms this image. In an interview with Christianity Today Metaxas even made the astonishing statement that Bonhoeffer was as orthodox theologically as the apostle Paul.
As orthodox as Paul? Metaxas does not seem to know that in his Christology lectures in 1933 Bonhoeffer claimed, "The biblical witness is uncertain with regard to the virgin birth." Bonhoeffer also rejected the notion of the verbal inspiration of scripture, and in a footnote to Cost of Discipleship he warned against viewing statements about Christ's resurrection as ontological statements (i.e., statements about something that happened in real space and time). Bonhoeffer also rejected the entire enterprise of apologetics, which he thought was misguided. [1]
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Metaxas is as well.
I've read some of Metaxas's stuff.
I don't think he's an *excellent* writer and something seems to be a bit off about his stuff, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Yeah. Metaxas seems off.
I'm sick of evangelicals assessing people who, in the talmud and the Encyclopaedia Judaica say THE most hateful things about them.
“ cuckery to israel”?
Yes. I will elaborate soon, I am eating pizza and hate typing with one hand. It might be tomorrow, but I will provide evidence
Ok.
Metaxas is a “post-modern evangelical”.
Closer to the Community Church strain of Calvinism.
Methodist light, I call it.
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