As usual, Martin E. Marty knows what’s going on. Apparently, Brian McLaren has begun promoting some sort of “Evolutionary Christianity,” which has something to do with both biological evolution and the historical evolution of Christianity. As Marty notes, first of all, joining these two issues is a horrible category mistake. Secondly, McLaren’s shocking revelations regarding [...]
Recently, Brett McCracken’s book Hipster Christianity criticized younger Emergent types for paying too much attention to style and for trying to fit in with cultural trends. To be sure, he has a point. In a scathing review, though, James K. A. Smith points out McCracken more or less assumes that everyone is as much of [...]
[As I note at the end of this post, it is very speculative, and I am mostly just interested to see what others have to contribute either in the poll or in comments.] Since their origins in the Protestant Reformation, evangelicals have focused on the importance of the Gospel above almost anything else. If neo-evangelicalism [...]
Recently, Brett McCracken has offered an insightful Wall Street Journal opinion piece (found via First Thoughts). After laying out the dire situation that evangelicalism faces among its younger generation (“70% of young Protestant adults between 18-22 stop attending church regularly”), he rightly ridicules the tendency to try to seem cool or use shock tactics such [...]
In a recent interview by Scot McKnight (via Robert E. Sagers), Brian McLaren says probably hundreds of things with which I disagree. In particular, though, at about 7:00 in the interview he talks about rejecting the Greco-Roman history of Christianity in favor of liberation and queer theologies. Although there are dozens of holes that one [...]
