“In Christ Alone,” the January issue of Credo Magazine, is now here! The January issue argues for the exclusivity of the gospel, especially in light of the movement known as inclusivism. This issue will seek to answer questions like: Can those who have never heard the gospel of Christ be saved? Will everyone be saved in the end or will some spend an eternity in hell? Must someone have explicit faith in Christ to be saved? Contributors include David Wells, Robert Peterson, Michael Horton, Gerald Bray, Todd Miles, Todd Borger, Ardel Caneday, Nathan Finn, Trevin Wax, Michael Reeves, and many others.
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(And I think you mean “whet”, not “wet”.)
In this edition of Credo, Nathan A. Finn offers a good overview of Rob Bell’s Love Wins controversy and offers helpful prescriptions in light of it. However, I do have a minor quibble with his fourth prescription, “The better part of wisdom suggests it’s best to read a book before offering comments.” Finn’s advice is judicious, of course, and we do well to be reminded to remain “above reproach when it comes to critiquing others.” However, this bolsters the myth that the reviewers hadn’t read Love Wins.
In his article, Finn voices his agreement with professors Roger Olson and Scot McKnight that opponents jumped the gun and drew conclusions without having read Bell’s book. The accusation is powerful because it casts the reviewers as knee-jerk reactionaries and heresy-hunters who are just out to topple a popular pastor with whom they disagree. However, it is unfortunate that Olson and McKnight bought and perpetuated that line since many of those thoughtful and critical reviewers actually had read the book. I can say this with a good deal of insider information since I am a former staff-member at Mars Hill (I resigned in the summer). That accusation (e.g. “they are critiquing a book they haven’t read”) in reality prematurely influened people’s opinions about the critical reviews. There were dozens of people I knew who refused to read the critical reviews (either the articles or book-length treatments) because they were under the impression that the reviewers hadn’t read the book. They were fans of Bell’s and therefore were not interested in reading a “hit-piece” by someone who didn’t read it. They, too, believed the canard that critics were pre-judging Bell’s material, and they were consequently pre-judging the reviewers. In other words, those like Olson and McKnight who threw out such an accusation did to the critical reviews what they accuse the reviewers of doing to Bell’s book.
Again, Finn’s advice mentioned above is sensible. Nevertheless, we should not propagate the myth that the commentators hadn’t read the book when indeed they had.
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