For those who haven’t noticed James Jordan has written two excellent article, The Closing of the Calvinistic Mind and FV, NPP, PCA, AAPC, ETC., regarding the Auburn Avenue controversy within certain presbyterian circles. I for one have seen in this entire controversy some intersting associations. There are some who I have seen come out on the extreme side against infant communion - they basically call it heresy. These same people I have seen elsewhere positively associated with Rushdoony. Haven’t they noticed that Rushdoony promotes paedocommunion in his Institutes of Biblical Law? Why weren’t they calling him a heretic? For those interested see pages 46, 752-53, and 849. Sometimes it does all seem childish.
Monthly Archive for September, 2005
I finished reading The Languages of Pao by Jack Vance this week. It is a very interesting story about a planet whose entire culture is changed by a change in the language. This change in language and culture was meant to make the planet more aggressive and able to stand up to its enemies instead of always immediately submitting. This concept interests me because I have thought for some time that their is a stronger relationship between language, culture, and overall attitude of the individual than we normally realize. I don’t know how to prove this but it seems to me that the language of a culture will cause the individuals of a culture to look at the world in a certain way.
