David Fitch excels in raising issues that need to be thought about, and has done so again with When Liturgy Goes Bad: Constantinian Liturgy in a Post-Constantinian World.
I am certainly someone who has been attracted to liturgy because of the emotionalism inherent within a non-liturgical free church tradition, where spontaneity bears a burden larger than I […]
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Christianity Today’s most recent issue is obviously meant to serve as a counterpoint to the (in)famous cover of Time Magazine from April 8, 1966. (Read its cover article, Toward a Hidden God.) This allusion to Time’s iconic cover is only skin-deep, however, as CT’s cover story from the July 2008 issue (written by the Don […]
This should be the final post in this series, after having introduced the topic, praised some of its impulse, criticized notions of perfection in the early church and a disregard for history. Now, on to my final bit of criticism, and hopefully a word about how to go forward.
I only addressed one part of the ahistoricism […]
My last post in this series criticized the assumption that the early church was somehow perfect and we should therefore attempt to be just like them. This post will criticize the other assumption in the myth of primitive perfection, that this is something which we could even do if we wanted to.
The problem with this assumption […]
Now that I’ve praised part of the impulse lying behind the myth of primitive perfection (that we can be a “New Testament” church), it’s time to address some criticisms of this paradigm.
The first major criticism of this paradigm is that it assumes that the NT church was somehow perfect. It was not. It requires a good […]
In my last post, I outlined the typical evangelical narrative regarding their status as a “New Testament” church. These blessed and wise souls have somehow managed to transcend the past 2000 years or so and have landed themselves right back amongst the book of Acts! If you sense that I have some heavy critique of […]
