Theology
Mar 28, 2005 Print This Post
//MOOD: Arg //ITUNES: “Dragula” – Rob Zombie
Sorry about the Arg. The wireless is not working at Riv, so I am grounded to a wire. It makes me Arg a bit.
Anyhoo, I was doing my morning blogread and I stumbled on an interesting conversation. It centers around the question “Are the Primary Evangelical Critics of the Emerging Church Conversation Calvinists?”
Here are links to the conversation: Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3
This got me thinking about a tangent. One thing I have noticed in the “emerging church” movement is that they tend to be very “reformed” in their theology. (Which makes it interesting at least that the primary critics are perceived as Calvinist.)
Particularily, there is an over-riding emphasis in emergent writings on the Kingdom being here and now in either a spiritual or subversive form. Many emergent writers seem to be either amillenial or postmillenial in their approach to the Kingdom. Many also seem to discount any involvement Israel may have in the future.
It’s interesting that many emergent thinkers/writers try to avoid labels, and so they say “I am not reformed or dispensational or **insert label here**” and yet their theology shows they do subscribe to an established theological tradition.
Now, I also hate the concept of labels. With that said, we all have particular bents in various areas. And when we evaluate those bents, we have to kinda adopt a label. That’s just the nature of the beast. Here are a few labels that I think I would subscribe to, if I was forced to say where I am coming from theologically:
Pre-Millenial, Dispensational
At the same time, I seek to engage a postmodern culture. Now, can those three things co-exist? I have looked around for any prominent or even hidden writers / thinkers that adopt a combination even close to this. Do they exist? Am I alone? Has anyone else noticed this?
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