Posts Tagged ‘Emergent’

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by George Elerick & Roy Petersen, writing at Conclave Padah is the Hebrew idea behind redemption. It alluded to an obligation one was under. It was also a self-imposed restriction, something that someone knowingly walked into. Someone who was fully aware of what they were ‘tying’ themselves to. It wasn’t accidental. Redemption then is being [...]

post by David Henson writing for Unorthodoxology Traipsing around the progressive Christian and emerging church blogospheres, I’ve noticed a remarkable affection for self-effacing heresy, something I from time-to-time indulge in as well. Such as in the naming of this blog. Of course, it strikes me that in the history of heresy, the truly heretical typically [...]

by James Townsend writing for The Human Condition I reject the virgin birth, sinless life, divinity, and physical resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. And that’s just a short list of the traditional Christian doctrines that I don’t buy into.There are a lot of open-minded, gracious people out there who consider themselves Christians who are not [...]

by Jason Derr Mainline Death With any luck the mainline church will be dead shortly. As a person who came to faith in the Non-denominational evangelical church and continued in faith in the Mainline Protestant/Liberal Theological tradition this is not an easy thing for me to say. But the truth is that across the board [...]

This is the 3rd installment in the series: A Creed of Negatives Creed of Negatives: Jesus by James Townsend 3. I don’t believe that Jesus was God, or uniquely a son of God. I don’t believe Jesus is God. I don’t believe in the Trinity. I believe in one God, about Whom we can’t be certain of [...]

Part 2 in the series: A Creed of Negatives Creed of Negatives: God Still Speaks by James Townsend 2. I don’t really think that God actively communicates with us all that much. This is one of the most ambiguous of my Creed of Negatives.  It’s also one of the hardest for me to articulate. What [...]