In response to this recent “Jagged Word” blogpost.…
Me, the terse response
Um, no. "But the depth of Christ’s victory goes far beyond the worries of a consumerist driven society or the sorrows of human toil. His gift is an F-You to the Law that would forbid your entry into paradise." https://t.co/fZbIdOW6OJ
— Nathan Rinne (@NathanRinne) September 27, 2018
Not Pastor Christopher Jackson (or me, btw), with the humorous response:
For the grand finale… Pastor Christopher Jackson, with the very thoughtful, patient, and pastoral response…
No. pic.twitter.com/q9NR7EoWbA
— Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) September 27, 2018
Okay, I'm going to unpack why @PaulKoch75 and @thejaggedword are off base on this. (Although, I'm surprised I need to say this.)
— Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) September 27, 2018
I suppose I could quote Scripture: "Let no unwholesome speech come out of your mouth," but this article already indicates what the response would be to this. It's Law after-all, and this article tells us what the author thinks Jesus says to the Law. (He doesn't, btw.)
— Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) September 27, 2018
So, let's go at this from another angle. Sexual intimacy is a most precious, beautiful gift fron God. Through it, man participates in God's ongoing act of creation. The Scriptures use it as an icon of divine-human love, of the relation btw Christ & His Church
— Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) September 27, 2018
So, the transgression in using the f-bomb, in a sense, is double. First, it is treating as ugly and hateful something intended by God to be tender and beautiful. Second, it is using language in a way that is not in accord with its dignity, as reflecting God's wisdom and glory.
— Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) September 27, 2018
And then, finally, putting the f-bomb in the mouth of Jesus, implying that He himself would buy into this worldly, ugly vision of sexuality – this is incomprehensibly vile.
— Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) September 27, 2018
So, a few final observations. A few years ago I riffed off of a Gilbert Meilaender article that noted that the dialectical approach to Lutheran theology inevitably "leads to a kind of antinomianism and a church life that mimics secular society." https://t.co/ScoltUr6wl
— Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) September 27, 2018
Is this not precisely what we see in this article? It has become fashionable, even perceived to be virtuous, to spew profanity within secular culture. And now we see Lutheran pastors aping this.
— Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) September 27, 2018
Second, at the recent talk given by Klenig that I mentioned (I'll post some audio from this soon,) he indicated that the way forward wrt the Christian response to the prevailing sexual culture is to show the beauty and dignity of the Christian sexual ethic.
— Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) September 27, 2018
This article moves us in the wrong direction entirely. And, more deeply, the dialectical theological vision undermines our ability as Christians to do this whatsoever, as it denies any connection between goodness in the created order and the goodness of God.
— Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) September 27, 2018
Anyways, if you're a contributor to Jagged Word, I encourage you to get off that platform. And, I encourage @1517 to pull funding and partnership. This is the second time such blasphemy has come from that blog. The time has come.
— Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) September 27, 2018
— Christopher Jackson (@revcjackson) September 27, 2018
Give the 5-minute clip with Dr. John Kleinig a listen (you don’t need to sign up for a drop-box account). Interestingly, he even mentions Jordan Peterson.
It is a very good “fourth response” to this highly problematic way of doing theology.
FIN
theology like a child 
Todd Wilken
October 1, 2018 at 5:20 pm
I second Pr. Jackson’s conclusion. 1517 has some great theologians associated with it. The jagged crowd are not among them.