The Jack Miller Archive

Jack Miller Made Three Leaps (According to Paul Miller)

September 5, 2015
Family
Philadelphia, PA.

P: But dad do you want to hear the thing on Dad's three leaps? #0:17:4.0#
M: Yes Yes. #0:17:5.1#
P: Okay so the first leap was out of atheism into.. #0:17:9.4# M: Reformed faith.. #0:17:9.4#
P: Reformed you know rich reformed faith that made sense of this universe. And then the second leap was out of a kind of a cold reformed orthodoxy into the orthodoxy of the heart. I would call it the warm puritans. #0:17:27.8#
M: I'm listening and I've got.. #0:17:28.3#
P: And I think it's fair to say this that dad was not a Lutheran but he had pietistic.. I think it's fair to say this he was not a Lutheran but he had pietistic tendencies that were reinforced by the immersion of the course itself on justification by faith. But.. #0:17:49.1#
M: And you earlier you called that Puritan.. #0:17:51.5# P: Yeah. #0:17:51.5#
M: A Puritan stream of pietistic. #0:17:51.5#
P: Yeah. I I am just I'm a little unsure of that but but I one thing I absolutely do know is he had relational tendencies he had the sins that we normally associate with the pietistic strain. #0:18:6.7#
Location: Paul Miller Interview 1