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Tired of endless uncertainties and doctrinal repaintings
From Why We're Not Emergent, a book that I reviewed yesterday:
I'm convinced there are just as many of us - Christian and not - in our postmodern world who are tired of endless uncertainties and doctrinal repaintings. We are tired of indecision and inconsistency reheated and served to us as paradox and mystery. Some of us long for teaching that has authority, ethics rooted in dogma, and something unique in this world of banal diversity. We long for Jesus - not a shapeless, formless, goodhearted ethical teacher Jesus, but the Jesus of the New Testament, the Jesus of the church, the Jesus of faith, the Jesus of two millennia of Christian witness with all of its unchanging and edgy doctrinal propositions.
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Thanks for the review. I am going to definitely check out their critique. As someone who is moving into a time of in-depth biblical study and church planting (possibly) I think I can understand the desire for some certainties, or at least I'm sure I will understand more-so soon. At the same time though, my life is so short. What does it matter if I find solid ground ever? My 50 or so years of uncertainty is a drop in the bucket, and maybe an inability to find solid ground for a sustained 50 years is necessary so that the next generation will have a more beautiful picture of the kingdom of god to build from. I don't know. I don't see it as a weakness. Not right now anyway.