What am I warning you about? DA Carson's book has come out, I have heard the bell, and the announcer dude saying "let's get ready to RRRRUUUUMMMMBBBBLLLLEEEE!!!" *music starts to fade in* "Are y'all ready for this......"
Well, I can say for one I am! I am ready for this. I have put sand bags around my lil' hole, I have my 'ard 'at and safety vest on and I'm ready for the proverbial $&!* to hit the fan! I just read an excerpt from the book:
In separate chapters McLaren explains (to use the subtitle of the book) ?Why I am a missional + evangelical + post/protestant + liberal/conservative + mystical/poetic + biblical + charismatic/contemplative + fundamentalist/calvinist + anabaptist/anglican + methodist + catholic + green + incarnational + depressed-yet-hopeful + emergent + unfinished Christian. I have read these chapters with considerable care, and I must try to explain a little of why this is an attractive + manipulative + funny + sad + informed + ignorant + winsome + outrageous + penetrating + resoundingly false + stimulating + silly book. And I have used each of these words with more precision than McLaren has used with his. (p. 162)
*KABOOM* And the Emergent soldiers gathered around, said "Amen" and now the blog bombs have started firing away.
Here is the deal and I mean this as nicely as possible, HONEST, I have seen some "EC" people say some similar things, if not worse about their "Modern" friends and I as I sit in my bunker I wonder, how many of us in the trenches are just going to get caught in the cross fire and how many of us will pay the cost? I think a lot of us will. So hunker down everyone, I thinks its going to be a long an bumpy ride.
And by the way, our copy will be in Monday. I may start a new blog of sorts for Blake and I to document our thoughts.
3 comments:
Yeah, I see an entrenching going on here. I don't know how much Carson is going to accomplish in reaching out to EC types to make sure they're thinking biblically through their mission. And conversely, how much EC types are going to encourage Carson et al to think missionally through their biblical theology.
yeah, although I'm sure some of the stuff he said was well meaning how much is it going to posturing? or vamping like our dear Angelus? ;)
I don't think it's right to attribute posturing to D.A. Carson. And when our Angelus vamps, he is out for the kill to establish his own primacy. But I think D.A. Carson, rather, is all about "the pain and the pleasure", as Angel explained to Cordelia.
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