Gordon Interview of Wolfe – V

“I just had a pickup. When my Dad died he handed me the title and gave me the truck. I sold it this week (hearty laughter by Gordon). It’s not my Dad, you know. I really didn’t feel any emotional tie to that. Maybe I’m just not a sentimentalist. That could be the issue.”
Rev. Chris Gordon
Interview w/ Dr. Wolfe

If Gordon’s Dad had bought the truck after Chris had left the home so that Chris had no kind of memories attached to that truck and his Father I could begin to understand this. However, if this truck of Gordon’s Father was a truck that Chris with his father went fishing or hunting or mudding or camping together then I would find this attitude on the edge of being “not right in the head.”

The truck abstracted from memories of his father would be comparatively easy to sell but the truck as filled with memories of activities together as Father and Son would find most normal people heart sick at having to sell the truck. Sentimentalism has nothing to do with it since the degree of sentimentalism rises and falls with what a person believes. A Gnostic, because of their Gnosticism would not blink over selling a memory filled pick up truck of one’s Father because of what they believe concerning the material realm being evil. A non-Gnostic might have troubles indeed.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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