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'Great Pumpkin' spirituality

From Fred Clark's latest post on the novel Left Behind:

What really matters to [authors LaHaye and Jenkins] is whether or not Buck "truly believes" -- whether or not he is, like Rayford, passionately sincere and sincerely passionate. My Calvinist brother calls this "Great Pumpkin" spirituality -- the idea that our sincerity, rather than God's grace, is the decisive factor. I'm very much not a Calvinist, but I agree that such Great Pumpkin spirituality makes no sense. Jesus' parables are filled with characters begging for forgiveness for the most selfish and venal reasons imaginable, yet that never matters in those stories.

Posted by Stan Taylor on June 2, 2008 10:03 AM | Permalink

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