My post Christian patriotism is up at ThinkChristian. It looks at the religious/patriotic writings of Chambers and Lewis in wartime. I stumbled on this scary picture while looking researching the post.
06.10.2009
Oswald Chambers, CS Lewis and the Patriot Bible
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Caption Competition? How about “One nation, under God, coming between the Son and his great work of redemption?”
Or is that going against the artist’s intentions?
David, Please know I’m not trying to “hijack” your post here or there. Can I mention a couple of things without it looking like I’m pointing fingers or sounding like I’m blowing a shrill whistle?
First, what a great post you write: “I come from the USA where Christianity’s influence is waning” is a powerful statement, followed by your opener: “A good teacher knows where he wants to take his students but begins where they are. A teacher who can’t speak the language of his students won’t be able to teach them his.” Which makes me wonder about words, and “Christianity’s” words. What’s gone wrong with words, unless Christianity is transforming (necessarily, positively) even in America? What if we Americans, Christians, were to listen to sisters and brothers from other lands and cultures where our “patriotism” seems to be as influential, as imposing on them, as Christianity once was here?
The other thing, just a corrective perhaps (please don’t take this as a feminist hijacking): Oswald Chambers did not write My Utmost for His Highest. Rather, the pages are transcribed excerpts from sermons he preached to his fellow soldiers. They are transcribed by one Ms. Gertrude Hobbs, who became Mrs. “Biddy” Oswald Chambers. Yes, Oswald’s wife. The story is here http://www.oswaldchambers.co.uk/Oswald_and_Biddy_Chambers.html (and in a fuller, wonderful biography by David McCasland called, Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God: The Life Story of the Author of My Utmost for His Highest, which could have been as easily subtitled “…the Authoress of…)
a contest!
how about:
‘if asked, i will not run. if elected i will not serve.”
or:
“these contacts are killing me.”
That’s not a completely accurate depiction of Jesus. Jesus would wear a nice business suit and a tie.
PS: Kudos on picking a map showing that in the future New Brunswick and Sonora (as well as an super-sized Florida) will belong to the US — Manifest Destiny!
i think it’s especially clever how the folds in the fabric match the appalachan and rocky mountain ranges.
Notice how his eyes follow you when you move. A miracle!
JK, Biddy is indeed a fascinating person. And it is to her that we owe the Christian Classic. Oswald, it seems to me, was very much an impromptu speaker. My question is how much text did he actually preach from? If he only used the verses that Biddy shows for each passage than we can confidently say that Oswald was a terrible exegete.
Do you notice that the eye on the right-hand side of the picture is subtly winking? (Alternatively, Jesus has droopy eyelids.)
“Aryan Jesus, fresh from a successful run in Germany, comes to the USA.”
Never mind horror films. That picture turns my stomach big time.
Elton John singing, “My baby’s got blue eyes…”
Theophrastus, at least he has started his makeover with the dyed hair and blue contact lenses.
David, Good question. What else do we have to ask?
http://speakeristic.blogspot.com/2009/06/oswald-was-terrible-exegete.html
I enjoyed your last post and I’m heading over to check this one out.
Glad you liked it. And for that you’ve been tagged in another blogger meme (which if you enjoy less probably puts you in good company):
http://speakeristic.blogspot.com/2009/06/books-on-book.html
Fiddle sticks. This is a meme free zone.
Figured. Hey wait a minute – somebody’s zoned out:
http://lingamish.com/2008/12/50-word-mini-saga-meme/
Go figure