DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA

Emergents, because they are postmodern, believe in paradox; or more correctly, they recognize the ubiquity of paradox and are not afraid of it. Instead, they see in its operative presence the tension where vitality lives. To make that point, an emergent will quite often offer the most simplistic of proof texts: X squared = 4, and that is a fact. Since it is a fact, what is the value of X? Quite clearly, X = 2 … except, of course, X also quite clearly equals -2. What is one to make of that contradiction, that impossibility, that paradox? (The Great Emergence, 160) 

Phyllis Tickle