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By Jeremy | February 7, 2005
Topics: authors, brian mclaren, emerging church, evangelical, leadership, media | 4 Comments »
February 7th, 2005 at 11:44 pm
I agree with you on this one. I got his most recent book for Christmas and got into it, but then my grad class started and its all I can do to keep up there. I’m looking forward to a break so I can get back into the book. Very good stuff!
February 18th, 2005 at 8:37 pm
J, I haven’t read McLaren yet but I hear on one hand he’s good at bridging the gap between the gospel and the postmodern culture, and on the other that he’s too apologetic about the stumbling-block nature of the gospel and too soft on substitutionary atonement. Walking the line of faithfulness and relevance can be a razor’s edge I suppose. It’s best to fall on the faithfulness side if you gotta fall somewhere, but it seems the emerging church types often go the other way.
Also, Time magazine seems as qualified to publish a list on Christanity as I am to post one on NASCAR.
February 18th, 2005 at 9:16 pm
Hmm … it would be fun to read one of his books together and exchange feedback online. Interested?
Time was careful in how it posed its list, calling it “most influential.” That’s an ambiguous phrase that they clearly defined on their terms.
February 24th, 2005 at 6:30 pm
Matt and I are going to read A Different Kind of Christian together. Anyone want to join us in an online, pseudo book club experience?