This is a 2002 book by the pastor of a large Presbyterian church in San Antonio and former professor at Fuller Seminary. It is a defense of the blended worship module with a strong kinship to the convergence movement. The sub-title is: “Singing a new song in the postmodern church.” Redman always quotes Robert Webber […]
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The Truth War
This new book by MacArthur does a great service to conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists alike, regardless of your various points of disagreement with its author. MacArthur uses the book of Jude as his text and speaks out on the apostasy within the churches today. He defines and warns of postmodernism and its latest representative, emerging […]
Exploring the Worship Spectrum: 6 views
This is one of the Zondervan “Counterpoints” books (2004). The editors take the latest forms of evangelical worship and have six different proponents defend each one and the others give a critique. The are: Formal-liturgical worship by Paul Zahl, an Episcopal rector; Traditional hymn-based worship by Harold Best, retired music professor from Wheaton College; Contemporary […]
Neoevangelicalism
I decided to go back and read this 1978 book thinking it would be an interesting parallel between what happened within evangelicalism in the 50s to the 70s and what is happening today within fundamentalism. It was indeed very interesting. Many of the same reasons that caused the neoevangelicals to leave evangelicalism are being repeated […]
Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Ch...
The sub-title is, “Understanding a Movement and Its Implications.” It was refreshing to read a scholar like Carson hold the “Emerging Church” writers’ feet to the fire. Carson takes the popular writers such as Brian McLaren, Robert Webber and Mike Yaconelli to task for their “nasty stereotypical” writing and for “condescendingly dismissing” older writers who […]
Guess What Has Not Changed?
Perhaps the most difficult problem in dealing with a postmodern culture is defining our terms. I doubt that a generation has ever been so flexible with language as this one. One hundred years ago W.H. Griffith Thomas, combating German Rationalism, said, “We cannot in any degree be sure of the thought unless we can be […]
Preaching Christ Today
While with missionaries in Scotland, I came across this small book by Torrance, who was Christian Dogmatics professor at the University of Edinburgh from 1952 until 1978, and a member of the Church of Scotland General Assembly. The book is a defense of the Incarnation of Christ in the light of today’s science. Torrance believes […]
Religious Postmodern Talking Points
In the last few years we have been inundated with information from within political circles that has been crafted by certain individuals but is intended to be heard by the general public. Sometimes this is a “trial balloon” of information, floated in public conversation to evaluate its effect. Often it is a specific piece of […]
Truth or Consequences
The subtitle is: the promise & perils of postmodernism. I have enjoyed and learned from Erickson’s writings on postmodernism. This is probably his most detailed and philosophical work on the subject. It is not a place to begin working on the subject of postmodernism but it certainly is profitable reading for those who have already […]
Why Did I Write It?
In January and February I wrote a two-part article titled, “Generic Church: The New Formalism.” In it I listed a number of reasons why I am not an advocate of the “contemporary” or “progressive” church movement. I received as many positive responses to that article as I have ever received for an article. I am […]