Emergents and Calvinists: "Never the Twain Shall Meet"?
Al Hsu writes, “What’s interesting to me about Collin [Hansen]’s book (Young, Restless, Reformed) is that despite the fact that the new Calvinists and emergent folks might seem poles apart in many ways, they do share a common concern — that contemporary evangelicalism is not what it ought to be. Both critique evangelical Christianity for being shallow, ahistorical, more focused on pragmatic issues than authentic spirituality and transformation. Both communities are calling the church to recover its heritage, the depth and breadth of Christian theology and worship, with a keen eye to missional ministry in this postmodern world, to the glory of God.
”... for all the differences, I think folks on all sides can charitably affirm that everybody wants Christianity to be more faithful, more vibrant, more missional than it currently is …
”... are these different tribes and subcultures just doing different things in different corners of the church, and never the twain shall meet (except to denounce each other every once in a while), or are there opportunities for fruitful collaboration between the two, for the benefit of evangelical Christianity overall? ...
“I have to think that there are others like me that would like to see more fruitful collaboration and dialogue on all sides.”
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Very interesting, we need some more public dialogue. I would like to see a public dialogue on Mogulus.com or UStream.tv, well advertised by all partners of emergent and whoever, a loving discussion reconciling differences.
Thanks for this beautiful powerpoint and also pointing us to where the reworked one has been put up.
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i posted a follow-up response to this post:
http://peculiarpastorscott.blogspot.com/2008/04/if-theres-question-about-whether.html
thanks!