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…
Category: Brian McLaren
Rob Bell Emerges Out of the Closet . . . and the Wool (Again)
The Emergence Christianity leaders continue to come out of the closet, and out of their sheep costumes, as one after another they end up mirroring Western postmodern culture in support of gay marriage. In Tony Jones article today entitled “Is Rob Bell (Finally) Pro-Gay Marriage?” he gives two current examples of how Bell is now…
Emergent: Helping or Hindering the Kingdom of God
The Gospel According to Jesus Brian McLaren, the prolific writer and Emergent Church guru, recalls being asked what the Gospel is according to Jesus and not having a suficient answer. A “well-known Evangelical theologian” then turned McLaren’s attention to the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. McLaren recalls: My lunch mate was a well-know Evangelical…
Church of Tares: Purpose Driven, Seeker-Sensitive, Church Growth & New World Order
Can the Church borrow the marketing tools of the world and apply them to the Church? What is the history of the Church Growth movement and its false premises? Who is involved in the new evangelicalism and second reformation? Why are these movements embracing contemplative mysticism? How does this movement play into the New World Order?…