This series of blogs on Generous (evangelical) Orthodoxy is important as I try to grapple with the challenge McLaren has given to fashion a generous orthodoxy. Tomorrow I will look at how anything “orthodox” must be “creedal,” but just how we grapple with “creedal” is so important. Then I will take on three or four more themes about what a generous orthodoxy can look like that will enable us to offer a genuine fourth way. Read more
The community focus of generous orthodoxy begins with a vibrant non-Puritanism. Puritanism was the attempt by some to “purify” the Anglican Church of unbelievers and the unorthodox and questioning and struggling, and has been one of the many movements in the history of the Church that has sought to raise the standard for who could be and who could not be “in the church.” I happen to read a handful of Puritans, but on this there is a tendency (which... Read more
Is there a possibility for a Fourth Way for the Emerging Church? A way that lives in the story of the entire Church, including the Eastern Orthodox tradition and the Western Roman Catholic tradition, as well as the Protestant tradition, one that both lets this be our story and yet that gives us freedom to take that story into a new story for a new day? I think so. Orthodoxy It will begin with a Kingdom mission and next it... Read more
Brian McLaren, over at Emergent’s website, is telling his story. There is no such thing as a theology that is not at the same time an autobiography, so it is nice to see this story. Read more
A good book for understanding a Kingdom perspective on “gospel,” is R.J. Sider, Good News and Good Works: A Theology for the Whole Gospel (Baker, 1993). Followed by Churches that Make a Difference. Read more
A good book for understanding a Kingdom perspective on “gospel,” is R.J. Sider, Good News and Good Works: A Theology for the Whole Gospel (Baker, 1993). Followed by Churches that Make a Difference. Read more
The place to begin in mapping a generous orthodoxy is the Kingdom of God as the vision Jesus gave to us for God’s redemptive work on this earth. As I said before, this map of mine is preciptiated by Brian McLaren’s Generous Orthodoxy, and I guess the subtitle for this little effort is “Why I am Kingdom-al.” But it does no good to the Christian story unless that Kingdom is understood in both terms of Orthodoxy and Generosity. Orthodoxy Now... Read more
The place to begin in mapping a generous orthodoxy is the Kingdom of God as the vision Jesus gave to us for God’s redemptive work on this earth. As I said before, this map of mine is preciptiated by Brian McLaren’s Generous Orthodoxy, and I guess the subtitle for this little effort is “Why I am Kingdom-al.” But it does no good to the Christian story unless that Kingdom is understood in both terms of Orthodoxy and Generosity. Orthodoxy Now... Read more
In my previous blog, I suggested that the Emerging Movement is essentially an evangelical or (post) evangelical movement. My next series of blogs will make clear that it is the term “generous” that gives the Emerging Movement the opportunity to be a genuine fourth option. Read more
In my previous blog, I suggested that the Emerging Movement is essentially an evangelical or (post) evangelical movement. My next series of blogs will make clear that it is the term “generous” that gives the Emerging Movement the opportunity to be a genuine fourth option. Read more
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