- Crazy for God
"Crazy for God" is an expression that has been used in the American religious community, sometimes in a favorable and sometimes in an unfavorable way.
Sun Myung Moon , the founder of theUnification Church , said, "We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy forGod ." This was recorded in the book "The Way of God's Will", which is popular among church members. [ [http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/WofGW/wogw1-03.htm "The Way of God's Will" Chapter 3. Leaders] ] In 1979Christopher Edwards , who spent six months in the church, used the expression "Crazy for God" as the title of a book he wrote about his experiences. [ [http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/oct1979/v36-3-booknotes20.htm Crazy for God] ]In 1992, the magazine
Hinduism Today titled an article about the Hindu mysticValli , "Tamil Songstress 'Crazy for God'". [ [http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/1992/05/1992-05-04.shtml Tamil Songstress "Crazy for God"] ] In 2006,New York Times art criticHolland Cotter wrote aboutIndia n andTibet an Tantric ascetics andyogi s, "They were purposefully crazy: crazy for God, truth, reality, enlightenment, salvation. For them, craziness wasn't a curse; it was a choice, an achievement." [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/arts/design/10rubi.html?ex=1297227600&en=453cc675a4306481&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Art Review | 'Holy Madness' They Chose to Go Crazy for Enlightenment] ]In 2006,
Will McGinniss , a member of the Christian bandAudio Adrenaline , toldBeliefnet.com , "We have never been afraid of being loud and bold and crazy for God." [ [http://www.beliefnet.com/story/199/story_19913.html Adios, Audio Adrenaline] ] While in 2007, theEurope anChristian organization Christian Revolution referred to their evangelical activities, which included dancing on public streets, as being crazy for God. [ [http://www.jesusrevolution.com/jra/?pid=News&id=66 News: Crazy for God, Lüneburg - Germany - April 2007] ]In October 2007, author
Frank Schaeffer titled his autobiography: "Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back". The book told of his upbringing as the son of a prominent evangelical minister and his later conversion to theEastern Orthodox Church . [ [http://www.powells.com/ink/schaeffer.html Ink Q & A Frank Schaeffer] ]In November 2007,
Stephen Prothero , the chairman ofBoston University 's Department of Religion and the author of "American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon", wrote in theHarvard Divinity Bulletin , "I am crazy for people who are crazy for God: people nearly as inscrutable to me as divinity, who leave wives and children to become forest-dwellingmonk s inThailand , who wander naked across the belly ofIndia in search of self-realization, who speak in tongues and take up serpents inAppalachia because theBible says they can." [ [http://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/bulletin/articles/prothero.htm BELIEF UNBRACKETED A Case for the Religion Scholar to Reveal More of Where He or She Is Coming From] ]References
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