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Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.

~ Peter Rollins

Peter Rollins Doubts Emergent Church Inspirational Life

What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.

~ Peter Rollins

Peter Rollins Doubts Emergent Church Inspirational Life

This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction

~ Peter Rollins

Peter Rollins Doubts Emergent Church Inspirational Life

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

~ Peter Rollins

Peter Rollins Doubts Emergent Church Inspirational Life

If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical of evangelical (and especially American) Christianity's modernity and its appropriation of Enlightenment notions of the autonomous self. Indeed, many otherwise orthodox Christians, who recoil at the notion of theological liberalism, have unwittingly adopted notions of freedom and autonomy that are liberal to the core. Averse to hierarchies and control, contemporary evangelicalism thrives on autonomy: the autonomy of the nondenominational church, at a macrocosmic level, and the autonomy of the individual Christian, at the microcosmic level. And it does not seem to me that the emerging church has changed much on this score; indeed, some elements of emergent spirituality are intensifications of this affirmation of autonomy and a laissez-faire attitude with respect to institutions.

~ James K.a. Smith

James K.a. Smith Christianity Churches Doctrine Emergent Church Foucault Institutions Nondenominational Theology

As they seek authenticity, Emerging Evangelicals seek freedom - from loneliness, convention, unwanted authority, dominant paradigms, the prevailing social climate, and impersonal bureaucracies. Ironically, in this sense, their preferred narrative and their desired subjectivity are just as modern as what they seek to distance themselves from: the conservative Christian subculture, including its born-again narrative of awakening and transformation.

~ James S. Bielo

James S. Bielo Authenticity Christian Subculture Conversion Emergent Christianity Emergent Church
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