Gforce9
Puritan Board Junior
In another thread, our good chaplain from Freezerburn, Alaska made the following observation:
With this in mind, what effects will post-modernism have on the church in this and the next generation in the following areas:
*Preaching
*Church government
*the Confessions
*Other areas
Our children, even if home schooled, are probably assaulted, subtly or not so subtly, by post-modern ideas regularly. I have found things coming out of my own mouth (and I'm 42) that are embarrassingly post-modern. I have heard from the pulpit "No creed but Christ".
I think broad evangelicalism has, by and large, lost the battle with post-modernism.....maybe some never even put up a fight. Even solid, Reformed denominations may have subtly (even unknowingly) embraced elements of it.
It is all post modernism's fault.
With the rise of post modernity, people have severed their epistemological connections with authority systems that infringe upon their autonomy. Systems that are very much oriented around dogmatic assertions and careful reasoning are particularly odious to the post-modern mind. So they are abandoned for less cognitively demanding systems.
With this in mind, what effects will post-modernism have on the church in this and the next generation in the following areas:
*Preaching
*Church government
*the Confessions
*Other areas
Our children, even if home schooled, are probably assaulted, subtly or not so subtly, by post-modern ideas regularly. I have found things coming out of my own mouth (and I'm 42) that are embarrassingly post-modern. I have heard from the pulpit "No creed but Christ".
I think broad evangelicalism has, by and large, lost the battle with post-modernism.....maybe some never even put up a fight. Even solid, Reformed denominations may have subtly (even unknowingly) embraced elements of it.