Steve Harbinger writes "[it] was a pleasure to read
this account of emergence by a conservative evangelical who is obviously secure in his own beliefs. His description of emergence is charitable, despite his disagreement. I also found it interesting that he compares the attitude of emerging christianity towards conservative evangelicalism as analogous to evangelicalism's attitude towards fundamentalism, when the evangelicals broke from fundamentalism in the 1940s and 50s."
The post he is referring to:
Lately, I have encountered among many Christians a desire to rename and re-identify themselves. This desire usually manifests itself as attempting to forge a new way between so-called, conservative Evangelicalism and Liberalism. The contexts for these terms is both theological and political. These proposals can be seen in the writings of Jim Wallis in politics or Stan Grenz or Brian McLaren in theology. Indeed, much of the so-called emergent movement can be conceived of in this fashion.
Not only are they critical of specific positions within both Evangelicalism and Liberalism, but also of the entire framework. They see both groups (conservative and liberal) as being stuck in the modern mindset of being able to have a corner on truth and therefore excluding others from that claim. They are quick to point out that modernity is dead and so we need to move beyond the problems which plagued it....
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Bob Hyatt writes in Next Wave:
In May 1995, Christopher Reeve was taking part in a cross-country equestrian event when a fall caused his skull to literally become separated from his spinal cord. He was totally paralyzed. Of that moment he later said, "It dawned on me I was going to be a huge burden to everybody, that I had ruined my life and everybody else's. Not fair to anybody. The best thing to do would be to slip away." When his wife, Dana, came into his room he looked at her and mouthed the words, "Maybe we should let me go."
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