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Thanks for being delicate Todd, when you got to the word 'wipe' I expected you to go in another direction. Whew!
I understand in his new book he comes right out and says things like the God pictured in parts of the OT is "hardly worthy of belief, much less worship". Has anyone read A New Kind Of Christianity?
I was actually glad, since even the densest, most ignorant Christians should be able to see him for what he is now.
Tim,
You are far too optimistic about what the average Christian will swallow. There's a good reason that the mainline became what it is today. People are less educated on epistemological and philosophical matters today than they were a hundred years ago. Logic has given way to gleeful irrationality. The Emergent Church is retracing 150 years of theological decline in less than a decade.
When I heard about this Sunday I was actually glad, since even the densest, most ignorant Christians should be able to see him for what he is now. I've heard of one emergent church already here on the Central Coast that has distanced themselves from McLaren over the new book.
Tim Challies has a good post on it:
A New Kind of Christianity :: books, emergent, reviews :: A Reformed, Christian Blog
It wasn’t too long ago that I wrote about Brian McLaren and got in trouble. Reflecting on seeing him speak at a nearby church, I suggested that he appears to love Jesus but hate God. Based on immediate and furious reaction, I quickly retracted that statement. I should not have done so. I believed it then and I believe it now. And if it was true then, how much more true is it upon the release of his latest tome A New Kind of Christianity. In this book we finally see where McLaren’s journey has taken him; it has taken him into outright, rank, unapologetic apostasy. He hates God. Period.
The blog Dont' Stop Believing is doing a review of the questions that McLaren asks in the new book.
Pretty shocking stuff.
It's hard to come up with a comment that fits McLaren's point of view, except that his perspective is sheer blasphemy. How in the world he thinks he is qualified to judge the God of Scripture in this way is beyond me. His remakrs reflect raw hubris of the ugliest and most wicked kind, and I fear for his eternal soul if this truly reflects how he views God.
Postscript: some have asked why my reviews of A New Kind of Christianity have been critical. Isn’t there something positive to say about it? That’s a bit like asking, “Otherwise, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?”
Whenever I've seen him mentioned places, it lists him as an "activist and author" and not a preacher.
they may have just omitted "preacher" for political correctness.
they may have just omitted "preacher" for political correctness.
And here I was hoping they omitted it for outright correctness...
I understand in his new book he comes right out and says things like the God pictured in parts of the OT is "hardly worthy of belief, much less worship". Has anyone read A New Kind Of Christianity?
I understand in his new book he comes right out and says things like the God pictured in parts of the OT is "hardly worthy of belief, much less worship". Has anyone read A New Kind Of Christianity?
I understand in his new book he comes right out and says things like the God pictured in parts of the OT is "hardly worthy of belief, much less worship". Has anyone read A New Kind Of Christianity?
Can anyone answer Tim V's question? I would love to see where this quote (in context) comes from if it is true.
No doubt about that Lawrence. I don't have a cat so I was definitely thinking in another direction.
No doubt about that Lawrence. I don't have a cat so I was definitely thinking in another direction.
Bob, I agree. I was thinking Todd was going to say something like wipe his window. That's how my mind operates. Pure as the wind driven snow.
My school's online student blackboard will occasionally have a C.S. Lewis quote about education, but inevitably they will mark the quote, "C.S. Lewis, Irish scholar and writer." Um...how about theologian? Perhaps if you're seeing McLaren mentioned in non-Christian sources, they may have just omitted "preacher" for political correctness.