PisteuticsEvangelical; Trends; New thinking in the reformational dialogue with evangelicalism in transition

This noo refWrite blog, Christians and Fellow Heretics, is lightheartedly titled to underscore the incompleteness of my own way of being a Chrsitian engaged in constantly sorting thru thawts about our primary label 'Christians.'  Seeking what others have been labelling as in need of change -- reformation -- and what must stay the same in our communal conceptualizing on matters of faith.   l expect in the occasional blog-entries here, to be

            - positional

            - interested in the sociology of doctrine and morals

            - aware of the proposers of change in evangelical thawt and life today, 

            - aware of what  trends are launching, cresting, receding to their previous water-levels

            - importance of the rubric 'be not the first …, nor the last ….'

From time to time, we will have recourse to  Alexander Pope's verse from which the rubric comes --

            

            Be not the first by whom the new is tried, 

            nor the last by which the old is cast aside.

And we will use it to help us further the consideration of philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd's  historiological analysis is appropriated regarding faith-ideas and conceptions, faith institutions, and new theological trends in regard to specific doctrines.

Briefly put, we will try to keep the approach of Dooyeweerd to conceptions of  conservatory, reactionary, and progressive moments in history.   While being concerned to further the sense of norm-seeking advance of doctrinal understanding, we hope at times to take up the cudgels against the Four Horsemen of fundamentalist hermeneutics.  Contrastively, we shall be somewhat label-able as, at once,

positioned  in opposition to biblicism, moralism, legalism, and historicism.  We are simultaneously stanced in the positive positions of  anti-biblisticism, anti-moralism, anti-legalism and anti-historicism.  On the latter, we haven't forgotten the teaching of Dooyeweerd in his book In the Twilight of Western Thought where he issues severe warnings about historicism particularly.

[Before I forget,  I have to say that I haven't even read Derrida's philosophical work, Positions; I don't even know whether its's been translated yet, and I'll probably never find occasion to read it in the future, regretfully.]

I want to wr+t, make writtles, mayk writtlz, at the intersection of Jesus Creed, and half a dozen other blogs that Steve keeps bringing to the reformaitional community's attention, a collection of blogs that I shall call Steve'sSelectBunch, blogs the entries of which appear lots in in the link-ups of paper.li vehicles, The steve bishop Daily and The reformational Daily.  Steve's combo of  an accidental blog, All of Life Redeemed archive of Dutch scholarship translated to this langwij of Inglish that we are now wr+ting and reading with Owlbirdbet ("langwij" as against against 'langyoo-ej', yes?) semiotic flourishes in a basically  text-and-pix viz (graphics) environment.  Color play as semantic play by way of a semiotic suggestive ambiguator -- namely, in Christians and Fellow Heretics'  Owlbirdbet Crossover spelling.

oh, yes, when you get a chance, dear reader, click up and read Scot McKnight's 'Jesus and orthodox faith for today' [Aug31,2k10] Jesus Creed.   I think this is a good way to orient toward Steve'sSelectBunch.  Your next stop for reading about the trends in evangelical pisteutics as presented by the blogs we will mention,  coud be 'Evolutionary Creation 4' [Dec9,2k10].

-- Owlb