SHANE WALKER SETS SHANE CLAIBORNE STRAIGHT ON “THE IRRESISTIBLE REVOLUTION”


Apprising Ministries points you to the 9 Marks review referenced below where Shane Walker sets us straight concerning why we should resist The Irresistible Revolution of postliberal Emergent Church  icon Shane Claiborne:

Since Claiborne has accepted the Christian Century crowd’s romanticism of popular leftists revolutionaries, he has missed the true radicals—like that Protestant scholastic who risked his life by sneaking into Catholic controlled Paris to share the true gospel with an arch-heretic; like the Covenanters who were burned at the stake for refusing to worship bits of bread during the masses that Claiborne enjoys attending (325); like Christian police officers and soldiers who have the challenge of simultaneously “loving their enemies” while also loving the people they protect; like Christian business men who provide millions of people with jobs and the dignity of supporting their families through the creation-mandated activity of work, and doing so with honesty and integrity in a fallen world…

In Shane Claiborne’s revolution, flatulence jokes become theological reflection, the crucifixion morphs to a lampoon, and prophetic preaching is reduced to heckling presidential candidates…
(Online source)

You can read the entire review from Shane Walker here.

See also:

SHANE CLAIBORNE AND THE GOSPEL OF GOODNESS

SHANE CLAIBORNE EMERGING CHURCH MYSTIC MUMBO JUMBO

SHANE CLAIBORNE LIED