“All who heard Him felt His power,” says the John the Apsotle player in Son of God the movie. What? Felt His power? You won’t hear this saying in the Bible but many postmodern relativists may use these types of phrases in their appeals to feeling the truth rather than knowing the truth and heart knowledge vs. head…
Category: Postmodernity
Fascist Trends of Passion 2014
I cannot unpack all of the complexities of ideological fascism in this blog post and how it has revived under the name of postmodernism in our day and popular culture. 2 years in the works at HBP is an upcoming film on Fascism and the Postmodern church. See our full-length interview with Dr. Gene Edward…
The First Emergent Pope
As we know the Emerging Church is postmodern. The postmodern and Emergent view of truth is incompatible with a Christian worldview. Postmodernists have not claimed to be seekers of truth and found it but seekers of truth who question it and cannot attain it through logic or rationality. Postmodernism may be characterized by the rejection of…
Warren Tells Young Leaders not to Listen to Critics
Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren was unable to attend the Hillsong Conference in Australia in person this year. Among those expected to appear are Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter’s House, Joel and Victoria Osteen of Lakewood Church, Craig Groeschel of Lifechurch.tv and Judah Smith of The City Church. Warren shared via Skype with Pastor…
Emergent Deconstruction, Train Tracks to Auschwitz
Postmodern liberalism, which has slithered into the Church with the Emergent movement, shares intellectual roots with fascism. One of the most popular postmodernist tendencies within aesthetics is deconstruction. Deconstruction is a postmodern and Emergent tactic of textual analysis, typically literary critique, that questions presuppositions, ideological underpinnings, hierarchical values and power structures within any given text. Deconstructive…