Our teacher has started a new study - The Emerging Church Movement.
Last Friday he helped us to get familiar with the terms.
Here are my notes!
*The emerging Church movement is a response to Post-Modernism.
*Modernism was when people had complete faith in technology & science as the ultimate answer to everything. There was a general rejection of authority with a continual push for progress.
*Post-modernism has been growing since WW1. The general definition is that
post-modernism is indefinable, but there are 4 beliefs involved:
1. suspicion of (scientific) reason
2. rejection of individualism - embrace community
3. celebration of differences
4. lost confidence in progress
and there are 2 essential elements:
1. moral relativism - anything is morally right it if works for you
2. societal tolerance
("Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything!" G. K. Chesterton)
*globalism - everything's one, get rid of boundaries
*pluralism - the belief that all religions have the same root so none are superior, all gods are the same or take you to the same one
*secularism - religious considerations should be excluded
*urbanism - city dwellers increasing
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