Saturday, May 2, 2015

Post-Liberalism Simply

I have on many occasions sought to explain to Christians what they describe to me when they have visited a post-liberal Church. Most Christians, I think, will have heard of liberal Christianity. That, however, is now fairly much passé. It is post-liberalism which is in vogue, worldwide, and it may be stronger than liberalism ever was. I have described it in more theological terms on this blog -- but to put it simply, it means absorption into the Church. That stands in contrast to the typically sudden conviction of sin by the Holy Spirit, and the experience of being born again. So because it is about absorption, post-liberalism will often emphasise community, family, relationship, and so on. This is just one aspect of post-liberal theology, and one cannot say it is not in the Bible. However, see the Biblical emphasis of 1 John 1:3.

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