{"id":1507,"date":"2011-08-02T14:48:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T21:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2011-08-02T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T21:49:43","slug":"%e2%80%9cby-your-own-bootstraps%e2%80%9d-pc-pietism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBy your own bootstraps:\u201d PC Pietism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cOne of the best things about this rich devotional resource is the way Muller has utilized resources from <strong>Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Native American<\/strong> spirituality to evoke the pungent aroma of Sabbath.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A sanitized version of the above book, titled \u201cSabbath:\u00a0Being, having, and doing enough,\u201d is featured in <em>The Lutheran<\/em>, July 2011. <a href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Writing for a Lutheran audience, Muller uses <strong>only<\/strong> Biblical references. Wink, wink.<\/p>\n<p>He is careful not to let \u201cchurch folk\u201d catch on that he is serving up PC Pietism:\u00a0the \u201caroma\u201d but not the reality of the gospel of Jesus Christ and him crucified.<\/p>\n<p>His PC Pietism is a bunch of \u201cshoulds\u201d \u2013 all law, of course. You should listen, you should light a candle, you should be still, you should be quiet, you should center yourself, and \u2013 you should buy his books.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201caroma\u201d disguises a \u201csyncretistic\u201d spirituality;\u00a0Muller, a therapist, minister, community advocate, consultant, public speaker, and author, long ago moved away from the meat and bones of the gospel of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>The real spiritual status of the Christian is defined by what Christ has done, outside of us, in spite of us \u2013 not by our efforts and feelings.\u00a0Therefore we have true certainty and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>But some would lead us astray\u2026(2 Peter 2:1-2).<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"8\"><br \/><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat reviewing <em>Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest <\/em>by Wayne Muller (New York; Bantam, 1999). Review available at www.spiritualityandpractice.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> Pages 20-24, plus study guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne of the best things about this rich devotional resource is the way Muller has utilized resources from Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Native American spirituality to evoke the pungent aroma of Sabbath.\u201d[1] A sanitized version of the above book, titled \u201cSabbath:\u00a0Being, having, and doing enough,\u201d is featured in The Lutheran, July 2011. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}