DISQUS

pby · 3 months ago

Today, one century into our history, scorching winds are now sweeping across the global savannahs of intellectual, theological, political, and economic thought. The breezes from these forums, like gusts from gathering storm clouds, are being felt. The winds of godlessness are being churned by prominent atheists and agnostics, whose voices are being heard in the media and whose thoughts form the tableau of best-selling books. The airs of pluralism, with their insistence on the equality of all religious ideas, are hinting at the loss of Christendom's favored status in the West. The Church is faced with decisions to make in the face of what appears to be a gathering storm.

What do you think that these "scorching winds" are that the article's author references?

How does an emergent deal with what this editor calls the "airs of pluralism and their insistence with the equality of all religious ideas"?

Do emergents even consider this part of a gathering storm? How are emergents fighting the gathering storm (which is what the author says that you are doing)?

Doesn't McLaren, Bell, Pagitt and other emergent leaders, in some fashion, really promote "airs of pluralsim"? (Bell and Pagitt at the "Seeds of Compassion" event in Seattle and McLaren with his fictional piece about a pastor's universalist daughter, among other things)

Do emergents agree or disagree with the above-mentioned athiests, agnostics and pluralists when they say that Christendom has lost its favored status in the West?

I think that the author is confused and is submitting a very modern and inaccurate view in regard to who and what the emergents are and what their "engagement of culture" is about. Is it an apologetic against the unbiblical? Is it a polemic against a rotting godless culture?

Are you guys really defenders of the Church that are buffetting the attacks of the scorching winds, airs of pluralism, and the gathering storm via engagement of the culture as this author presents?

richschmidt · 3 months ago

Just a quick note to fix Jason's blog link. It should be this: http://newleafchurch.org/ethansfeet/

jjbroward · 2 months ago

Thanks for posting. I really appreciate the editor's boldness in taking on the conservative reactivists to support a younger generation. That kind of courage feels rare. (It may not be, but it feels much too uncommon.)