I did too, Michelle, to try to make sense out of the option! Then I went, "Wait a minute here?" Anyways, my dialup is sending my post toward Jesus Creed. Should be there in an hour or so, hahaha.
about 6 minutes later
It posted.
Btw, if any of y'all might ever wanna blog-post be forewarned: most don't have an edit feature! I've gotten used to that here and, now, I can't fix a minor boo-boo on Jesus Creed...which is one of the best blogs around!
Anyways, now I have to post the "progressives" since I became one overnight,
Scot McKnight wrote:The progressive is not always progressive. Those who score 66 or more can be seen as leaning toward the progressive side, but the difference between at 66 and 92 is dramatic. Still, the progressive tends to see the Bible as historically shaped and culturally conditioned, and yet most still consider it the Word of God for today. Following a progressive hermeneutic, for the Word to speak in our day, one must interpret what the Bible said in its day and discern its pattern for revelation in order to apply it to our world. The strength, as with the moderate but even more so, is the challenge to examine what the Bible said in its day, and this means the progressives tend to be historians. But the problems for the progressives are predictable: Will the Bible's so-called "plain meaning" be given its due and authoritative force to challenge our world? Or will the Bible be swallowed by a quest to find modern analogies that sometimes minimize what the text clearly says?
Wherever you land on this scale, it is my hope we all will engage the seriousness of how we read the Bible—and don't read the Bible.
Scot McKnight is professor of religious studies at North Park University in Chicago and the author of the upcoming book, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible (Zondervan, 2008).
I have a panel discussion about "emergent" someplace Scot was in on. He mentions seeing a parakeet in his backyard, who had gotten outside somehow. Other birds, I think sparrows, were initially frightened of it. But soon, they saw he wasn't going to harm them and they came closer, being intrigued. Not real long after that, the sparrows began to "imitate" what the parakeet did and would go wherever he flew off to. They wanted to be like him.
I can't recall the exact moral of the story. But it had something to do with how "emergent" Christians appear like this parakeet to more traditional Christians. They're initially scared of the stuff emergents ask but eventually find that they ask the same things themselves...or something like that.
Scot talks about the blue parakeet here.
Emergent Village
Podcast, AAR Panel
btw, AAR = American Academy of Religion
McKnight is the first speaker I think.
Very interesting panel going from the postmodern & pretty liberal end of things and around to the ideas of the "linearly-thinking modernist" Scot McKnight, as he describes himself (I like that).
