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