In a recent Sydney Anglican article True Confessions of the Emerging Church the Sydney Anglican authors compare the Emerging Church to the Da Vinci code describing both as a "protest against biblical orthodoxy". Having met quite a lot of painfully orthodox Emerging Church type people I don't think anything could be further than the truth.
The Da Vinci Code and the Emerging Church have both come out of an environment where people have very little trust of authorities. The Da Vinci Code only works because readers have the ability to look over the flimsy historicity of the book because they have an overwhelming greater belief that the church is just the kind of organisation to hide things from believers in order to monopolise their faith. Similarly, Emerging Church types find it hard to blindly trust the authority of traditional orthodoxy, or traditional churches and their structures and perhaps have a belief that maybe we can connect to God ourselves and don't need a third party to help us do that.
It looks to me like Sydney Anglicans might be keen for people to (reformation style) have a Bible of their own to read, just as long as they are the ones to tell us all what it means. It looks like the Sydney Evangelical movement are still a long way from taking the great leap forward from modernity to post-modernity.
The Da Vinci Code and the Emerging Church have both come out of an environment where people have very little trust of authorities. The Da Vinci Code only works because readers have the ability to look over the flimsy historicity of the book because they have an overwhelming greater belief that the church is just the kind of organisation to hide things from believers in order to monopolise their faith. Similarly, Emerging Church types find it hard to blindly trust the authority of traditional orthodoxy, or traditional churches and their structures and perhaps have a belief that maybe we can connect to God ourselves and don't need a third party to help us do that.
It looks to me like Sydney Anglicans might be keen for people to (reformation style) have a Bible of their own to read, just as long as they are the ones to tell us all what it means. It looks like the Sydney Evangelical movement are still a long way from taking the great leap forward from modernity to post-modernity.
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Yeah of course they won't make the transition to postmodernity, because to them, postmodernism is indeed the devil, and an evil to be avoided at all costs, unlike the modernity they live in which fits seamlessly with Christianity...
This is hilarious ! : http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s1655730.htm
How embarrasing for Madelaine - at least she confessed.
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