tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19364700.post7084555748374969951..comments2023-07-26T04:54:13.903-07:00Comments on Robin's Readings and Reflections: James Jordan on the Lord's SupperTerrell Clemmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17367926808246409525noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19364700.post-39107932808642494832012-09-14T06:46:25.768-07:002012-09-14T06:46:25.768-07:00James Jordan manages to bail a lot of hay from wha...James Jordan manages to bail a lot of hay from what our Lord did not do, or did not say. In so doing, he cuts himself off from any possibility that the Spirit, in the Church and through the Church, has effected various developments, elaborations, and maturation of the Church's worship of her Lord. By Jordan's lights, Solomon's temple and all the changes to its liturgy inspired and instigated by David are illicit. "God didn't say anything about choirs in the Law, dontcha know!"<br /><br />I have many friends and comrades in the faith who enthusiastically claim to be Reformed. Things such as you critique here are what keep me from applying that term to myself, though I am as committed a Protestant as any of them, and share most points of conviction in soteriology that they espouse. Still ... they are haunted, terrified it seems, by the Tetzel's ghost. This generates wtihin them a horror of the notion that God would accomplish His ends through means that involve human actions. This further eviscerates any possibility of a sacrament in the classical Christian (and Biblical!) sense. Instead, they flee Tetzel's ghost into the arms of the Gnostics, with whom they confess that salvation is all a point of view.Fr. Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05583524465037937508noreply@blogger.com