The PuritanBoard - View Single Post - Russell Moore: McLaren "Serpent Sensitive"

DMcFadden · #10 (**permalink**) 04-20-2008, 11:29 PM

Come on, guys!

I've been doing some reading. And if you just skip all of this Protestant scholasticism and theological hairsplitting, if you learn how to see the Bible as relational rather than doctrinal, if you can relish paradox and ambiguity as your friends, if you can get beyond boxing God in this tiny little world of confessional "legalism," then you too can be . . .

Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-Hopeful, Emergent, AND Unfinished.

Having read Mr. McLaren's book, I would agree that he is unfinished . . . and WRONG! This is what you get when you take a B.A. and M.A., learning all of the techniques of post-modernist deconstructionist literary criticism, and try to apply them to the Bible and church history! Did Bill Hybels REALLY invite him to speak at Willow Creek? Yikes!