Articles for tag: Modernity

August 3, 2017

Now More Than Ever: Embracing the DNA that Created a Movement

By Rubel Shelly Did you ever agree to something””only to regret it later? As I begin writing this piece, that feeling hovers over me. I will not characterize the Stone-Campbell Movement as others would. (Some have already been offended that I call it the Stone-Campbell Movement rather than the Restoration Movement; it is a movement of ideas and ideals, not particular historical characters, they say. Others were offended that I dared call it a “movement” at all; it is theological rediscovery and return, not a human program.) See? I told you I didn”t feel good about this. I”m in trouble

January 25, 2017

Christian Standard

Mission & Evangelism

Our Compelling Story

By Jim Tune Sociologists tell us societies are not held together by rules and laws, and that order cannot be enforced by swords or guns alone. People must find their motivation and meaning in powerful ideas””beliefs that justify their institutions and ideals. Writer Percy Bysshe Shelley once said, “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” I think he was trying to say that, through their vivid imagery and memorable rhythms, poets have the power to shape how people think. In 1703 Andrew Fletcher wrote, “Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its

February 4, 2015

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Christian Living

For Such a Time

By Jim Tune “I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?” laments Frodo, after discovering the power of the mysterious inheritance that has come into his possession. In response, Gandalf offers a sober appraisal: “Such questions cannot be answered. You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.” In challenging Queen Esther to act on behalf of the Jews, Mordecai offers similar counsel. He

January 25, 2009

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Apologetics & Worldview

Is It Time to Move Beyond Truth? (Part 2)

Â By Robert C. Kurka Read part one Â In the previous article, we observed that a new wave of “post-conservative” theology has made its mark in both the academy and the church. In large part, this nonfoundationalist approach was given shape by the 2001 bookÂ Beyond Foundationalism, coauthored by Stanley Grenz and John Franke. This defining work contributed a number of helpful insights to those committed to making an impact upon the postmodern world, not the least being a necessary caution that a previous generation”s preoccupation with “proving the Christian faith” may actually betray an unintended concession to a non-Christian

January 18, 2009

Christian Standard

Apologetics & Worldview

Is It Time to Move Beyond Truth? (Part 1)

by Robert C. Kurka Logic . . . reason . . . rationality . . . truth.Â While such terms were fairly common””and desirable””depictions of biblical faith in the literature of 19th- and 20th-century Christians (especially restorationists), they are increasingly being abandoned by theological writers during this new millennium. In fact, in today”s religious climate, if a conservative theologian ventures to talk about “absolute truth,” chances are he may be ridiculed by the evangelical academy, or at least those “younger evangelicals” (to use the late Robert Webber”s designation) who deride such language as the antiquated baggage of a bygone modernism.1