Comments on: Telling Stories

By: Mike Bull

Mike Bull — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:59:22 +0000

There is always a remnant! I guess he means the future of the west, which still seems to be the source of theological advances – but for how long?

By: Matthew Moffitt

Matthew Moffitt — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:36:16 +0000

I think the death of Western Christianity is a little bit exaggerated. Anyway, the future has already “been laid”, with the phenomenal church growth in what Chis Wright calls the majority world – the Global South.

By: Mike Bull

Mike Bull — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:53:57 +0000

Good point. In that wonderful book by Doug Jones and Doug Wilson, “Angels in the Architecture”, one of the essays suggests that modernism began when the Roman church really began to dominate politically. So I guess that means modernism invented its own foundation.

Jordan doesn’t think we should wait for the evangelicals, either. He thinks the end of Western Christianity is nigh, so we should be laying foundations for the future right now, and that this is one of the most exciting times to be alive.

By: Matthew Moffitt

Matthew Moffitt — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:47:03 +0000

Is the foundation of modernism evolution? Or is the other way round – the foundation of evolution modernism?

Evolution is clearly an idea of its time. Modernity is all about progress, so in one sense it’s hardly surprising that science came up with a doctrine that’s about progress.

My other thought is that if we wait for evangelicals to get themselves in order (and I would happily call myself an Evangelical) then we’ll be waiting until the cows come home…