King’s College wird (etwas) katholischer
Das King’s College in New York, ein Arbeitszweig des Missionswerkes Campus für Christus, hat einen neuen Präsidenten berufen. Fünfter Präsident ist der Katholik Dinesh D’Souza.
Carl Trueman schreibt dazu:
Clearly, if the school can now be headed by a Roman Catholic, the Christian worldview of The King’s College presumably sees issues of authority, the Bible, the interpretation of the Bible, the sacraments, justification, and the church (among numerous other doctrines) as negotiable, as areas where there can be significant disagreement and which are, by inference, only tangential to a Christian view of the world. This is not to denigrate either Protestant or Catholic views in these areas, but merely to point out the fact that there are huge differences here which yet are not seen as impinging on the worldview being taught. One is left to assume that this »Christian« aspect of the worldview consists, theologically, in little more than agreement on the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Filioque, and not much else. ›Generic and minimalist‹ seem scarcely adequate as a description at this point.
As I have argued before, if these issues really are negotiable, then we should all return to Rome. Not to do so is an act of schism, as disagreement over them drove the Reformation in the first place and gave Protestantism its reason—its only reason—to exist. Francis Beckwith realised this and, with honesty and grace, returned to the church of his childhood. And when a college which plays on its Protestant, evangelical identity appoints a Roman Catholic as president, the theologically vague coalition that is evangelicalism is once again exposed in all of its basic theological incoherence and indifference.
Ich kann Trueman sehr gut verstehen und befürchte, dass es in den von ihm angeführten Punkten zu Verschiebungen kommt. Allerdings gilt auch: Wo sind die intellektuellen Evangelikalen, die in den Fragen der Ethik und der Kulturkritik etwas zu sagen haben und etwas sagen? D’Souza oder Peter Kreeft (auch am King’s College) haben sich immer wieder eingemischt, wenn es um Fragen der Moraltheologie ging. Viele Protestanten schweigen. Dieser Trend lässt die Katholische Kirche für etliche Intellektuelle attraktiver erscheinen.
Hier mehr: www.reformation21.org.
Nachtrag vom 25.08.2010: Siehe auch qqden Beitrag von CT: www.christianitytoday.com.