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more postmoderm evangelical thought
Wednesday 26th October 2011 @ 2:44 pm

 Some more from David Fitch – granted he writes from a USA perspective, but it can be translated into western religious experience at meaningful levels …

 

The background to the following quote is that Fitch describes modernity as:

“the veneration of modern science, the obsession with controlled factual truth, and the unabashed confidence in objective reason as located in the mind of each individual”

 

 

The crux of matter then is that we live in a moment when:

“… evangelicals are aligned with modernity at a time when the cultural consensus on modernity seems to be ending. … (We)… learned to do church in relation to modernity. During the American revivalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we learned a salvation in Christ that was individual and personal. Amidst the fundamentalist–modernist controversies of the 1920’s we learned to defend truth using modern science and methods of historiography. As a result most evangelicals are modernist to the core. Yet, modernity’s bald confidence in science and progress over nature, it’s uncritical acceptance of Enlightenment individualism as the basis for politics and all of life is imploding. It therefore seems imperative that we evangelicals reassess our relationship to modernity lest we too “go down with the ship.” “


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