Comments on: knowledge and experience - aside 3 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/09/27/knowledge-and-experience-aside-3/ digging deep, stretching up, reaching out Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:17:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mak http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/09/27/knowledge-and-experience-aside-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1149 Mak Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:33:40 +0000 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/09/27/knowledge-and-experience-aside-3/#comment-1149 I would agree Rudy that an aversion to dogmatism is a common thread amongst emergents - probably because most of us are post moderns and feel comfortable embracing the tension of having convictions while attempting to maintain an openness to the other and to the possibility of being wrong. We tend not to find it scary whereas moderns find comfort and peace in KNOWING the TRUTH and feel threatened and fearful when those dogmas are questioned. do you go to Mars Hill Rudy? I would agree Rudy that an aversion to dogmatism is a common thread amongst emergents - probably because most of us are post moderns and feel comfortable embracing the tension of having convictions while attempting to maintain an openness to the other and to the possibility of being wrong. We tend not to find it scary whereas moderns find comfort and peace in KNOWING the TRUTH and feel threatened and fearful when those dogmas are questioned.

do you go to Mars Hill Rudy?

]]> By: Rudy Friml http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/09/27/knowledge-and-experience-aside-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1148 Rudy Friml Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:35:39 +0000 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/09/27/knowledge-and-experience-aside-3/#comment-1148 Mak, I did not mean that it you said these were not important...but one gets the impression from some in the EC that these issues are not issues on which a Christian can be dogmatic, giving the impression that perhaps they are not important enough to God. Piety seems to be expressed in a willingness only to claim ignorance... Mak,
I did not mean that it you said these were not important…but one gets the impression from some in the EC that these issues are not issues on which a Christian can be dogmatic, giving the impression that perhaps they are not important enough to God. Piety seems to be expressed in a willingness only to claim ignorance…

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