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Re: Over-The-Rhine Digest V3 #51
>From: Gilhamilton at aol_com
>Liz queried:
><< You ended this email with
> "under the mercy"
> Kevin
>
> Have you ever read the book Under the Mercy by
> Sheldon VanAuken? A "sequel" to his book A Severe
> Mercy. If so, what did you think?
> In JesusCristo,
> Liz Kovarik >>
>
>I have ASM but haven't read it yet.It is on my *to read* list.Didn't know
>about UtM. I don't remember where I picked up the phrase. Perhaps
>Schaeffer?
Hi, Kevin.
Francis Schaeffer has been a great influence on my ideas. It
is fun to see his name on the list. I saw his television series
_How Should We Then Live?_ on PBS before I was fully a Christian.
I was most influenced by his saying that in the course of history
if people do not have an absolute reference point, God, then they
drift in relativism. After a while in a world without God there
is very little reason to be nice to each other or to do a good days
work. Many of the great scientific thinkers who broke away from
the church in past centuries became very sad.
I do not read enough to recognize the other names that you
mentioned. I will make a point of looking them up.
Also, thanks for the review. Thanks also to Oncleboo for his
review of the same concert. It is like a postcard from an exotic
land to hear tales of heroes in faraway lands.
--Rick C
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