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postmodern evengelism
Monday 24th October 2011 @ 1:24 pm / what I'm learning / 0 comments
David Fitch has written a book well worth the read for anyone involved in ministry during these strange & wonderful times …
His language is thoroughly evangelical, but the thinking he uses his language for is part of the long slow pull of evangelical practice into fresh enlightenments.
Here is a snippet of his thoughts on postmodern evangelicalism …
“We will no longer impart universal truths to individual minds outside the Church. We will live truth together so as to compel the lost to come and see his Lordship in full display in a worship service. ...
Keesmaat & Walsh
Wednesday 23rd March 2011 @ 12:00 am / what I'm learning / 0 comments
I recently read Colossians Remixed (Brian Walsh & Sylvia keesmaat) ... and I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who takes questions of Scripture seriously in a postmodern context ... it's mind bending, heart warming and soul stomping ...
wade through it, it's worth it.
Here is a tiny snippet of their take on one part of postmodernism - highlighting the fragmentation of all embracing narratives ...
"Modernist homogeneity is easily replaced by postmodern fragmentation" ...
... “Postmodernity, then, can be described as a period of cultural disquiet. In the face of the betrayals and failures of ...
Calvinist view of Church?
Thursday 20th May 2010 @ 12:00 am / what I'm learning / 0 comments
This quote is taken from "Who's afraid of Postmodernism" by James Smith. The book is pretty good for seeing postmodernity in ways that do not threaten the Church ... but for me, I found it a little too Calvinist, but hey, you can't have everything.
But Smith's obvious Calvinism was also a challenge to me, because while his thorough academic philosophy as a base root, his flower was the work of the Holy Spirit through faith ... not a style of writing that you come across very often. And so sentences like below struck me - and gave me ...
modernism didn't have to be this way!?
Saturday 15th May 2010 @ 12:00 am / what I'm learning / 0 comments
A couple of months ago I began a Doctorate of Ministry (DMin) through Fuller seminary in USA (California - yippeeee!) ... it is a distance study course & should take four years ... long time. I go to US for one week of intensive study every year - which should be fun.
From time to time I should post some of the interesting things I'm reading - so here is a start ... one of sociologist Stephen Toulmin's theories concerning the rise of radical scientific rationalism in the 17th C ...