The labels Emergent Church, Emerging Church, Emergence Christianity, and New Christianity all imply innovative and progressive understandings of Orthodox Christianity. Like nailing jello to a wall, many have attempted to understand and define the Emergent movement only to be frustrated and confused. At the heart of the Emerging movement is the worldview of postmodernism which…
Category: Postmodernity
A New New Testament: Old Old Heresy
A culminating work of the Jesus Seminar era and of others influenced by it, the New New Testament A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts edited by Hal Taussig presents old old Gnostic heresy. A founding member of the Jesus Seminar, Taussig and 19 American “spiritual leaders” and scholars selected 10 texts to…
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…
Postmodernism, Fascism, and the Church: Dr. Gene Edward Veith
While fascism was militarily defeated in WWII, the ideology of fascism is alive and well in some of the most unsuspected areas of our society. Dr. Gene Edward Veith is Provost and Professor of Literature at Patrick Henry College and author of Modern Fascism: The Threat to the Judeo-Christian Worldview. Dr. Veith explores the fascist…
From What Are We Saved?
There is an important question that “haunts Christianity” which Emergent leader Tony Jones asked his blog community today: What Are We Being Saved From? Often when I ask this question to people who say they are saved, they cannot give me an answer. To most evangelical Christians, their answer would be hell, but there is…