Church Voices

I just completely ignore emergents and thier churches now. I used to pay attention. Until I realized that emergents were either not interested in conforming to scripture or were really nothing new (and most fall into the second category). For a prime example of the first go here.

Earlier I posted a bit from William Lane Craig about how postmodernism is just the re-packaging of modernism. I’ve had doubts about that assessment. But this quote from McLaren has pretty much pushed me completely over into the Craig camp.

Perhaps we need a five-year moratorium on making pronouncements [about homosexuality]. In the meantime, we’ll practice prayerful Christian dialogue, listening respectfully, disagreeing agreeably. When decisions need to be made, they’ll be admittedly provisional. We’ll keep our ears attuned to scholars in biblical studies, theology, ethics, psychology, genetics, sociology, and related fields.

Ah, so in order to know the proper response to homosexuality we should be consulting fields of study that were the direct result of modernism. You may agree or disagree with this methodology, but you can’t call it anything but modernism. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.