Clark, List: I think that your comments here hit the nail on the head.
Thanks, Jon On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Clark Goble <[email protected]> wrote: > The first paragraph tells us that Peirce's approach to Scripture was that > of "modern Biblical criticism," and he expected "the liberal parties" to > triumph accordingly. This is not surprising; I also discovered that he > wrote in R 851 (1911) that "the reader will find me a scientific man to the > core; and the early Christians did not exhibit a more thorough abhorrence > for the impurities of the paganism of their childhood, than I entertain for > utterances I used to hear from the pulpit about the 'plenary inspiration' > of the Bible, etc." He apparently had a particular beef with "the > Calvinistic theology," which as a Lutheran I tend to share. > > The key insight from the second paragraph is that Peirce considered "the > doctrine of love and of the Sermon on the Mount" to be "the fundamental > proposition of christian philosophy." In other words, consistent with some > of his other relevant writings, he focused entirely on the *teachings *of > Jesus, rather than matters pertaining to his divinity, death, and > resurrection. From my Lutheran perspective, that is an obvious confusion > of Law (what we do and fail to do) and Gospel (what God has done for us); > our love for God and other people is the *result *of our salvation, > rather than its cause or its content. There is considerable historical > truth in Peirce's comments about the origin of creeds, but unfortunately he > seems to want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. > > Given Peirce’s emphasis on a type of empiricism rather than trusting > accounts one couldn’t confirm this is hardly surprising. While tied to > Christianity his seems a religion more determined by what he can test. > (Hardly surprising given the work his pragmatic maxim does) Clearly he > still has a lot of tradition in his thought so this process isn’t complete. > > To Calvinism given the place of tychism in his thought it’s not surprising > he rejects it and sees it as so inherently problematic. > > Those were quite interesting quotes though that I’d not seen before. >
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