Two Sides of the Same Coin?
David at The Great Giveaway makes some cogent observations about evangelical fundamentalism and protestant liberalism – that, far from being opposites, they are actually very similar. The problem is that both work within the Modernist worldview. Their “opposites” are only opposite within that framework – they are concerned with the same limited set of questions and use many of the same assumptions (including the primacy of the individual). As a result, neither can deal effectively with criticisms from outside that framework, nor criticisms of the framework itself. This means that moving beyond this axis of thought involves more than sythesising these two positions (as some seem to be doing). We need to be genuinely imaginative and to generate new models that answer the new questions.
(_Thanks to Maggi for the link._)
pax et bonum
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