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4 responses to “Brian McLaren on the Kingdom of God”

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   madetopraisehim

   2007-08-18

   Your Kingdom come

   Jesus didn’t teach us to pray: Our father in heaven, hallowed be your name, may we go to heaven after we die, from this place to heaven where your will is done
   HT: Matt Stone

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   John

   2007-08-18

   I wonder if there is any room for the Goddess, Shakti, or the Queen of Heaven in Mclaren’s “kingdom”.
   Maybe her function is relegated only to kinder, kuche, kirche while the boys get on with the real work of conquering the world or rather re-“creating” the world in their own masculine image.
   Kinde, kuche, kirche are of course important.

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   John

   2007-08-18

   Me again.
   The archetypal story of Humpty Dumpty offers an always timely warning about/against the delusions of those who either speak about the “kingdom” of God or somehow pretend that they are involved in some grand project to usher in such a happening.
   Being a “fallen” person, or one who is identified with a fragment of the whole, a piece of broken shell lying on the ground, Mclaren and his many friends (hubristically)
   imagine that they can put Humpty back together again.
   All the kings horses and all the kings men cannot put Humpty back together again — never ever.
   Historically, havent we had enough grand schemes or so called “awakenings” and their (always) failure, to understand the sheer delusion of such thinking and projects.

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   kay

   2007-08-24

   Thanks for posting this Matt. Brian is amazing. His views about what the kingdom of god is give me real hope. 🙂

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