1.08.2010

Emerging into Darkness

This is why Christians who have researched the emerging church can hardly bear to walk through our "Christian" book stores anymore, and only do so when absolutely necessary...
The Emergent Church's Retreat into Pre-Reformation Darkness

by Paul M. Elliott
www.trinityfoundation.org

In recent years, the Emergent Church movement has become a headline-grabbing favorite of the religious media establishment. Emergent leaders' books and videos line the shelves of religious bookstores. Press coverage of their activities and pronouncements is overwhelmingly favorable. The movement has received national exposure in a two-hour PBS television special and on ABC's Nightline. Emergents' influence has spread like wildfire in colleges, seminaries, and churches - mainline liberal, Roman Catholic, and Evangelical alike.

Emergent Church1 leaders and their supporters promote the movement as "the way forward" for the church. It is, they claim, a "new Reformation" with its own "95 theses" and its own new Luther pointing the way. But the Emergents' "way forward" is in fact a headlong, headstrong retreat into pre-Reformation spiritual and intellectual darkness....
Read the rest HERE @ www.virtueonline.org.

[HT: Christian Research Network]

1 comments:

BONNIE said...

Thank you so much for posting the link to the article mentioned here. I wish everybody I know could read this. I think I'll have to add this one to my facebook wall.

Blessings, Bonnie