Wednesday, January 16

Mild Critique of McClaren's Book

CT has a mildly critical, but thoughtful review of Brian McClaren's book, Everything Must Change. While the reviewer gives McClaren the benefit of the doubt more than I would, he does bring some perceptive critique to McClaren's thinking, most importantly calling out the fact that McClaren is blatantly ahistorical. In other words, it's a nice way of saying that McClaren is naieve about the real problems we face and the real solutions to those problems, as well as the depth of Christian thought and discussion that has occurred on these issues for 2000 years.

Maybe the emergent church isn't all that new and revolutionary after all.

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