Grits, Theology, Mission, and Life


Emerging into the Fog
September 10, 2007, 7:11 pm
Filed under: Theology

I have been ask recently by several people about the emergent church movement.  If you are unfamiliar with that is, it is a movement within churches where people are asking questions about how we should change “how we do” church and sometimes even how we should change our theology because we now live in a post-modern, post-christian America. 

If these ideas or this movement is new to you I would highly encourage you to read through the article written by Mark Driscoll on the movement.  It is a great primer to what the movement is, how it started, who is a part, some of the dangers, and what are some of the differences of people within this very wide movement. 

I will give bonus points to anyone that can identify the person pictured above and how he relates to post-modernism. 


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Comment by dga September 11, 2007 @ 7:26 am

In a city full of engineers, scientists & mathematicians surely cartesian coordinates will ring a bell. A smart, modern man - attributed as being the “the first modern thinker” - surely his contribution is that he preceded post-modernism. :-)

Comment by Z-man September 11, 2007 @ 11:51 am

You guys are correct! Rene Descartes is consider by most to be the father of modernism. It is his philosophy that post-modernism is reacting to, fighting against, or amplifying depending on who you read.

BTW: I believe that Christ-followers should be neither modern nor post-modern but that is for a different time and post!

Comment by wulffenstein September 11, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

Wow … speaking of post modern, hard to believe that this dude was French. Something about a blind acorn finding some BBQ?
I guess we otta be in the ‘pre-pre-modern’ philosophy, aka the early church :-)

Comment by vanogram September 11, 2007 @ 10:30 pm

Hey there Andy -

I’ve started splatting up some thoughts on modernism, postmodernism, and how they both relate to Christianity up on my blog at

http://www.golfsierra.org/blog

Curious to know what you guys think!

- garrett

Comment by Garrett January 2, 2008 @ 1:59 pm

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