Re: Call me a fideist

 On 5/26/05, Terry M. Gray <grayt@lamar.colostate.edu> wrote:
>
> That being said, I still have my reservations about the
> appropriateness of the creature deciding whether or not the Creator
> is true or which version of him is true. The method of a posteriori
> confirmation of presuppositions due to their "success" in the way we
> (and everyone) actually lives is also a method of rational
> confirmation--it's not an irrational or a totally circular approach.
> [As an aside, much of my approach fits nicely into post-modernist
> ways of thinking. However, I reject the the general notion of
> incommensurability. Worldviews can be tested by how well they
> actually work.]
>
> Terry, how does your approach fit in or not fit in with McLaren and the
Emerging Church Movement, err, conversation? :-) My take is that the
struggle they are having to contextualize the Gospel into a post-modern
culture is good but they downplay propositional truth too much. Mohler's
criticism of them on the other hand makes too much of propositional truth to
the point that the life-confirming aspects of Christianity are lost. A
synthesis between the modern and post-modern contextualizations of
Evangelical Christianity should be able to preserve the strengths of both.
Received on Fri May 27 11:23:40 2005