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right questions, but wrong answers


The risk to become mired in arbitrariness and non-binding

The Emerging Church wants to express "post-modern community" within the "post-modern age". Not only DA Carson but other critics of this movement complain to her that it is simply a protest movement, which is partially correct diagnoses, but not the right - the Bible - Answers to the diseases of the Christian churches and communities offer.

Roger Behrens, senior lecturer at the University of Hamburg summarizes, in a small Paperback of the origins and development of postmodernism together. His final word is a critique of postmodernism. Behrens concludes:

"The criticism of postmodernism is:. You ask the right questions, refers to threatening problems of modernity, but their responses remain false and reduced their solutions what it is capable of post-modernism, is much less than their more subtle jargon promises Overall, postmodernism caught in the traps they wanted to put the modern age:.. She is at risk of getting entangled in its arbitrariness and non-committal in their own diagnosis of the surfaces and the simulation " (Roger Behrens, Postmodernism , Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 2008, p. 90.)

Behrens clear understanding of the postmodern mind may be transmitted every right to the postmodern emerging church. They, too, "asks the right questions," it is diagnosed in some of the weaknesses of evangelicalism, but their "wrong answers stay and reduced their solutions." The Emerging Church is particularly vulnerable to arbitrary and without any obligation to be, because in their view, there is no absolute truth and latest standards.

Perhaps the reason for the (un) spiritual state of the Emerging Church just due to the fact that it has opened the post-modern spirit, and was coined by him.


I urge you, brothers, presented by the mercies of God, your bodies a living, holy and pleasing to God victims, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to [postmodern] of this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, consider that you may prove what the will of God is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:1-2