The New Christians Vs. Vintage Jesus - A Review

Chad Hall reviews the latest books by Tony Jones and Mark Driscoll. His closing paragraphs:

And what does Driscoll have that emergents could use? As crazy as this might sound, I think he is humble. Not in the politically correct sense of humility where nobody is ever wrong or bad or judged, but in the City of God sense that you know your place in the order of things. In my opinion, Driscoll seems to get that Christianity is the rock against which humans are broken, the fire that purifies us, the sieve through which our lives are sifted and sorted and made good. By taking a deconstructing stance toward Christianity, theology, and life, emergents seem to be getting this backward: they can’t help but to break, burn, and sift the faith.

Drunk on an overindulgence of their own intelligence and high on the hoopla of being on the exploratory edge, emergents seem headed off the road of what passes as sensible and sound Christianity. Can the Christian faith withstand the deconstructive doubts and curiosities of emergents? Of course it can. That’s not the point. The point is that emergents may not be able to survive their chosen path.

In Vintage Jesus, I caught brief reminders of why and how our faith remakes us into God’s likeness. In The New Christians, I learned just how much the emergent movement needs to take this reminder to heart.

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The New Christians

Vintage Jesus