Theological Interlude

 Katherine Stewart, a reporter who covers the religious right,has an essay in the NYT to which I commend your attention. If you can ' t access it because of the paywall,Paul Campos excerpts and discusses it here. Stewart explains what Josh Hawley ' s project really is. Why did he try to get Congress to overturn the results of the November election?Yesterday, a comment on my Sunday Bible post, I quoted from Matthew 25, and I noted that most Christians do not actually believe what it clearly, literally says: that salvation is dependent on good deeds. As Hawley explains:In multiple speeches, an interview and a widely shared article for Christianity Today, Mr. Hawley has explained that the blame for society ’s ills traces all the way back to Pelagius — a British-born monk who lived 17 centuries ago. In a 2019 commencement address at The King ’s College, a small conservative Christian college devoted to “a biblical worldview,” Mr. Hawley denounced Pelagius for teaching that human beings have the freedom to choose how they live their lives and that grace comes to those who do good things, as opposed to those who believe the right doctrines.It may be surprising that Christians reject what the Gospel says are the words of Jesus, but they do. It has been a classic debate among Christian theologians whether salvation is by faith or by works. (Calvinists say it ' s neither, that God chose who to save at the beginning of ti...
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