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Prodigal Gospel,Prodigal Faith-session3挥霍的福音挥霍的信仰–第三讲

主讲:林慈信牧师_校对:刘加立、陈弟兄、Cherry姐妹_文字:余波弟兄

At this point,we will selectively read from Paul M.Elliott’s series,six part series,下面我们会选择性地来解读Paul M.Elliott的一系列的6篇的文章。The first article in the series is entitled Tim Keller:dangerously influential,第一篇文章是提摩太·勒:危险的具有影响力

Who is Timothy Keller谁是提摩太·凯勒?Born in 1950,Timothy J. Keller is Senior Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City. 提摩太·凯勒出生于1950年,他是纽约市的救赎主长老会的主任牧师。After undergraduate studies at Bucknell University,他在宾州的Bucknell大学读完他的本科,Keller earned a Master of Divinity degree from Gordon-Conwell Seminary in 1975. 凯勒在Gordon神学院,Gordon-Conwell神学院1975年获得道学硕士。

In 1981 he completed studies for a Doctor of Ministry degree at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. 1981年他在威敏斯特神学院(就是指费城的威敏斯特)完成了他的教牧学博士。(下面请读者注意,下面这句话我不完全认同,the following statement is not something that I completely identify with,可是也不是完全错误,then it’s not completely false either.)Westminster was then,and is now,a hotbed of neo-liberal theology.威敏斯特当时和现在是一个新自由派神学的温床。

Its trademarks are the deconstruction of the inspiration of Scripture,威敏斯特神学院的特点是把圣经的默示解构,and the doctrine of justification by faith alone.唯独借着信心称义也是解构掉了。(Again I am not sure I can completely identify the statement,but I realize that there are problems with my Alma Mater,是的,我的母校威敏斯特有很多的问题,但是我不能够完全认同这句话。)Keller continues to teach at Westminster as an adjunct professor of practical theology.凯勒继续地在威敏斯特做实践神学的客座教授。

In the late 1970s Keller was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). 1970年代末凯勒被按立,是一位美国,属于改革宗的,美国长老会PCA的牧师。In 1989,PCA leaders asked Keller to start a congregation in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.1989年PCA的领袖们请凯勒在纽约市的曼哈顿开始一个会众。

Under Keller’s leadership,Redeemer Presbyterian Church has since grown to approximately 5,000 members.在凯勒的领导之下,救赎主长老会增长到目前的差不多5,000会员。Keller is a best-selling author and popular speaker. 凯勒著有一些最畅销的书,也是备受欢迎的讲者。He has written at least eight books,他著作了至少8本书,and appeared in several video series,也拍了好几套的录像系列,and has contributed to several other books and video productions.也参与其他的录像的制作,也在其他书里面贡献了他的文章。His own works include,他自己所写的书包括The Reason for God,The Prodigal God,and Generous Justice这几本的书。

下一段next section,Keller’s Associations,凯勒的联络网。

Keller’s work has spawned the “Redeemer Network” of churches (officially known as Redeemer City to City),凯勒的开拓教会的事工就延伸到一个叫做救赎主的教会联络网,正名是Redeemer city to city,promoting Keller’s theology and philosophy.这个联络网就是要推介推广凯勒的神学和哲学。According to its website,the Redeemer Network includes over 150 churches.根据这个联络网的网站,救赎主联络网包括了超过150间的教会。As of this writing (November 2011),直到我写这篇文章,(就是2011年11月为止,)there were 56 in metropolitan New York City,这个联络网在纽约市的教会有56间,26 in other North American cities,在北美洲,就是美国跟加拿大其他的城市有26间,12 in South America,在南美洲有12间,52 in Europe,在欧洲有52间,and 10 in Asia.亚洲有10间。

Redeemer Network churches dominate the PCA’s Metro New York Presbytery.救赎主联络网的教会差不多是占有了PCA的纽约大都会的区会的大多数,或者是最有影响力的教会。Keller is a frequent contributor to the website of the BioLogos Foundation,凯勒常常把文章贴在BioLogos基金会的网站,which promotes belief in theistic evolution in churches,in Christian academia,and in the Christian homeschool movement.这个BioLogos的网站是在教会、基督教学校和家庭教育的运动中推广神导进化论的,就是上帝领导进化的进化论的。

According to his biography on the BioLogos website,根据在BioLogos网站的凯勒的生平介绍,Keller duplicitously “prefers to be ‘noncommittal’ on the theories of origins in his writing,so as not to alienate those who prefer one view of creation over another.”凯勒宁愿在宇宙的起源方面,在他的著作上面没有定论,这样就不会得罪创造论的一种观点或者另外一种观点的持有者。

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In 2009,Keller was one of the original signers of the ecumenical Manhattan Declaration,the latest effort to bring nominal Evangelicals and Roman Catholics together in the promotion of a common but undefined “gospel” under the banner of social justice and cultural reclamation. 2009年,凯勒签署了一个跨信仰的曼哈顿宣言,这个是最近一次的把挂名的福音派人士和罗马天主教人士连接起来,推动一个共同的、但是没有定义的所谓福音;他的旗帜是社会公益和重新地占有或者领取文化,就是文化的更新。

The signers of the Manhattan Declaration seek to have what the Bible tells us are the results of the Gospel,without the Gospel,曼哈顿宣言的签署者希望看到福音的果子,但是是没有福音而要看到福音的果子,- true moral improvement without the prerequisite of eternal life by the regeneration of the Holy Spirit.就是说,没有圣灵重生一个人,没有永生而能够道德上的提升。

Keller is also a key mover in the Gospel Coalition,凯勒也是福音联盟的一个重要的推动者,an ecumenical organization whose leadership and membership are not even agreed among themselves on the definition of the Gospel.这个是一个跨宗教的一个的组织,他们的领袖们跟成员也不能够同意究竟福音的定义是什么。Any church is free to list itself as a coalition member.任何教会都可以称自己是这个福音联盟的成员教会的。

The Coalition’s  directory web page says,这个联盟的网页的directory那页说,”Find a gospel-centered church near you.”“请你在你的附近找一间以福音为中心的教会。” But the same page includes the disclaimer that “we are not able to fully vet” the churches listed.但是同一页又说,“我们没有办法完全地去确认”这里所列出的教会。Even a cursory exploration of the churches listed shows that many of them have no grasp of the one true Gospel.略略地看一看这个单子上的教会,就很清楚地说明,很多这些的教会并没有掌握到纯正的唯独的福音。

Instead they substitute variations on the “social gospel”,取代之的是各种不同品牌的“社会福音”,that ensnared thousands of churches during the 20th century,也就是让20世纪成千的教会堕入这个陷阱的“社会福音”,and dominates the Purpose-Driven and Emergent Church movements today.同一个社会福音也垄断了这个标杆教会的运动和目前最新浮现的教会运动,Purpose-Driven and Emergent Church。

第一篇文章的最后第三段first articlethird and final sectionWhy Keller is Dangerous为什么凯勒是危险的

Tim Keller is one of today’s most influential religious leaders,and one of the most dangerous.提摩太·凯勒是今天最有影响力的宗教领袖之一,也是最危险的一位。Many who are familiar with Keller’s embrace of theistic evolution think this is the extent of the danger.很多认识到凯勒是相信神导进化论的人士,他们以为凯勒的危险就是在进化论这方面。But there is much more about Keller’s ministry that should alarm Bible believers.但是凯勒的事工还有很多方面,是相信圣经的信徒们需要警惕的。

At the heart of Keller’s dangerous influence is a false gospel.在凯勒的危险的影响力的核心,是一个错误的或者假福音。As we shall see,Keller’s hetero-gospel encapsulates his un-Biblical views of God,the authority of His Word,the origin and present state of His creation,the nature of man,the definition of sin,the purpose of the cross-work of Christ,and the mission of His church.我们下面的文章会指出,凯勒的“另一个福音”就包含了很多的不符合圣经的观点,就是神论、上帝的话语的权威、上帝所创造宇宙的起源、上帝创造了宇宙目前的状态、人的本性、罪的定义、基督在十字架上的大工的目的和教会的使命。

In this,Keller is essentially no different from 20th-century modernists,在这些事情上凯勒与20世纪的自由派没有什么两样,like Harry Emerson Fosdick and Norman Vincent Peale,就好像Fosdick跟Peale这些的20世纪的现代主义者,or present-day postmodernists like Rick Warren and Brian MacLaren.也是跟今天的后现代派的教会领袖Rick Warren和Brian MacLaren没有什么两样。Yet Keller has a wide following,just as these men have had,然而凯勒有很多的追随者,就好像刚才所说这四位的领袖一样,- including many who consider themselves to be conservative Evangelicals.凯勒的追随者包括很多认为自己是保守派的福音派人士。How can that be?怎么可能呢?The answer is twofold.答案是两方面的。

First第一方面,Some in Keller’s large following simply assume that he is orthodox because he is a leading figure in a purportedly conservative Protestant denomination.很多跟随凯勒的人很单纯地假设,凯勒是信仰正统的,因为他是在一个自称为保守的基督教宗派里面的一位领袖,就是PCA。When faced with the reality of Keller’s true beliefs,many of these people recoil in righteous horror.但是很多这些的人,当他们要面对到凯勒真正的信仰的时候,他们会发出公义的恐怖的回应。

第二方面为什么second reasonOn the other hand,I have found that many of Keller’s advocates know that his theology is essentially heterodox.另外一方面,我发觉很多推动凯勒的思想的人,知道他的神学本质上是不正统的,是离经背道的。They simply choose to place that inconvenient fact on the altar of pragmatism.简单地,他们选择了在功利主义的祭坛上,把这个很不方便的事实献上。They claim that the theology of men like Keller is a side issue,他们宣称,凯勒这种人的信仰是一个旁边的、一个次要的一点,and that confronting it would interfere with being “missional”.假如你面对指责他的错误的思想,你就拦阻了宣教的使命啊!

But their view of the church’s mission is,like Tim Keller’s,un-Biblical:但是,和凯勒一样,他们对教会使命的观点是不符合圣经的:They seek growth,他们所追寻的是增长,- in both numbers and influence,教会人数的增长、影响力的增长,- through compromise of the essentials of Biblical Christianity.怎么使人数跟影响力增长呢?就透过把圣经基督教的本质的要点妥协掉。

The second article of the series is entitled Tim Keller’s Gutless “Gospel”第二篇文章的题目是:提摩太·凯勒的毫无勇气的所谓的福音。

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