The emerging and emergent movements seek to be “postmodern”. In fact, to the degree that they begin with human autonomy, with versions of rationalism (e.g., in their denial of the atonement), in subjectivism (e.g., in their hermeneutic and quest for the immediate encounter with God), they are not postmodern as much as they are, as Mike Horton likes to say, “most modern”. To be truly postmodern would be to embrace the historic Reformed faith. It would be to become anti-modern, to repudiate the assertion of the sovereignty of human choice or of human experience or of human rationality in favor of the the sovereignty of the mysterious Triune God, of the two Adams, of unconditional grace, faith, and the church instituted by Christ himself.
Read the full article by R. Scott Clark on The Heidelblog.
2021-06-28