Within the Emerging Church, many are calling all Christians to an epistemic humility. For many of them, epistemic humility arises out of their postmodern epistemology which contends that absolute knowledge about God is impossible to obtain given the limitations of humanity. Since humanity is limited in their ability to gain certainty about eternal matters, they often argue that Christians should hold their theologies more loosely. This does not mean that Christians have to abdicate their curren...
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Is Brian McLaren a New Ager?
In Unmasking the New Age, Douglass Groothuis offers six distinctives that are common among New Age proponents: All is One, All is God, Humanity is God, a Change in Consciousness, All Religions are One, and Cosmic Evolutionary Optimism (18-31). New Agers resoundingly agree that all is one, i.e. all is “interrelated, interdependent, and interpenetrating” (18). In Naked Spirituality, McLaren argues, “Put beauty, diversity, complexity, and harmonious interdependence togethe...
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Best Commentaries for a Pastor’s Library
THE OLD TESTAMENTNote: You can find the following commentaries listed by Tremper Longman III’s Old Testament Commentary Survey and D. A. Carson’s New Testament Commentary Survey. Those listed here are the ones which they list as most desirable for the pastor seeking to build a commentary library. It is recommended that pastors buy these commentaries instead of simply buying a commentary set since some volumes in a given set will not be as good as others.GENESISHamilton, Victor P....
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