Thursday, June 05, 2008

Session 10 - Norman Geisler



  • The methods change, but the message should not.

    • Conviction Without Compromise - book



  • "In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; in all things, charity."

    • The problem is - nobody knows what the essentials are anymore



  • Post-Protestant

  • Post-Orthodox

  • Post-Denom.

  • Post-Doctrinal

  • Post-Individualism

    • ...and much more I couldn't write down quickly enough.



  • www.emergentvillage.com

  • "It aims at something else, and shoots itself."

  • Anti-absolutism

  • Anti-exclusivism

    • This is a major problem with MacLaren & Pagitt & others



  • Law of non-contradiction (A cannot be not-A)

  • Anti-foundationalism

    • Stanley Grenz - Beyond Foundationalism

    • "He got Descart before de horse..."

    • "Opposites (A is non-A) can both be true..."

      • The inverse cannot be true - think about it...





  • Anti-rational

    • Fideism

    • "...ever learning and not able to come to the truth..."

    • "If I have to believe it because it's absurd, I wouldn't believe it."



  • Anti-objectivism

    • All meaning is culturally relative

    • Skepticism ought to be skeptical of skepticism



  • Anti-realism

  • Anti-infalliblism

  • Anti-propositionalism

    • The Faith is more than doctrine, but never less than doctrine

    • Ideas are important - doctrine is important!



  • Post-orthodoxy

    • Unity over orthodoxy

    • Cannot surrender essentials

    • Cannot "sacrifice the right to be right"



  • Anti-condemnationalism

    • UNIVERSALISM

    • More & more ECMmers are coming out of the universalist closet - that's true.

    • There is a hell because God is loving - and man is free (sorry, Dr. White. :mrgreen: )



  • Anti-inerrantism

    • All other essential doctrines devolve directly from an inerrant Text

    • Everybody's making truth claims

    • Augustine's Dictum



  • Well, he seems to dig Driscoll, so I'll listen more...

  • MJ@internationallegacy.org for the PowerPoint

    • Get This!!!



  • ECM very much tends to be not only theologically liberal, but also politically


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