We recently spent a weekend in San Francisco. You should've heard the comments. "Oh, you're going THERE. What a pit" "It's the most beautiful city in the world." And just about everything in between. Evangelicals especially seem to be pretty conflicted about the city, placing it somewhere between Sodom and Hell on the moral continuum. I found the city tolerable in the main, much like any other city, and occasionally brilliant.
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Affective Theology A friend recently asked me to define Affective Theology, and I felt a little like the Supreme Court Justice who reportedly said, in repsonse to a request to define indecency, the he couldn't, but he knew it when he saw it. I hand off the task to a man of God, much wiser and more articulate than myself, Richard Sibbes, who comments in the following on a number of key categories of Christian spiritual formation from an affective prespective: "But how or by what means doth Christ give his Spirit to us? This Spirit that is so necessary for us, it is given by the ministry of the gospel, which is the ministry of the Spirit. 'Received ye the Holy Ghost by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith preached?' Gal. iii. 2. When the love of God in Christ, and the benefits by Christ, are laid open in the preaching of the gospel to us, God gives his holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. Now God in Christ would save us by a trimphant and abundant love and m...