James K.A. Smith Quote
Those evangelicals who have been raised and shaped by forms of Christianity that are roughly fundamentalist will either: a. become taken with the modern moral order and thus sort of replay the excarnational development of modernity, just now a few centuries later, sort of catching up with the wider culture; so under the guise of the emerging church or progressive evangelicalism, we’ll be set on a path to something like Protestant liberalism, a new deism; or b. recognize the disenchantment and excarnation of evangelical Protestantism, and also reject the Christianized subtraction stories of liberal Christianity, and feel the pull of more incarnational spiritualities, and thus move toward more Catholic expressions of faith — and these expressions of faith will actually exert more pull on those who have doubts about their closed take on the immanent frame.
Those evangelicals who have been raised and shaped by forms of Christianity that are roughly fundamentalist will either: a. become taken with the modern moral order and thus sort of replay the excarnational development of modernity, just now a few centuries later, sort of catching up with the wider culture; so under the guise of the emerging church or progressive evangelicalism, we’ll be set on a path to something like Protestant liberalism, a new deism; or b. recognize the disenchantment and excarnation of evangelical Protestantism, and also reject the Christianized subtraction stories of liberal Christianity, and feel the pull of more incarnational spiritualities, and thus move toward more Catholic expressions of faith — and these expressions of faith will actually exert more pull on those who have doubts about their closed take on the immanent frame.
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