DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!

 

Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge”. (1 Timothy 6:20)

Emergence Of Bad Philosophy Mixed With Rotten Theology A Deadly Spiritual Kool-Aid

For those who don’t know mystic philosopher and postmodern [read: postliberal] theologian Peter Rollins is a master ear-tickler now becoming a star in the corrupt constellation of what was basically the Emergent Church. Now however, this ecumenical and alleged next reformation of Christianity is morphing into something they call Emergence Christianity, which is essentially a spiritually warped marriage of a panentheistic emergence theory and a “theology of hope.”

Rollins says they’re “rediscovering the Barthian insight that even the revealed side of God is mysterious.” So Emergence “is thus able to leave aside the need for clarity” (18). As I said before it’s little wonder because snakes prefer to slither around in the shadows. Apprising Ministries also shows you in Emergence Pastor Rob Bell To Have Friend Peter Rollins In Conference that the Elvis of Emergence Rob Bell does refer to Rollins as his friend.

Rollins himself informs us also that he spends much of his time “as a writer, public speaker, lecturer and co-ordinator of the experimental collective Ikon,” which is “iconic, apocalyptic, heretical, emerging, failing” (sounds about right) and:

Inhabiting a space on the outer edges of religious life, we are a Belfast-based collective who offer anarchic experiments in transformance art. Challenging the distinction between theist and atheist, faith and no faith our main gathering employs a cocktail of live music, visual imagery, soundscapes, theatre, ritual and reflection in an attempt to open up the possibility of a theodramatic event. (Online source) 

Adminstrator of the Queermergent group website  and LGBTQ activist Adele Sakler aka Existential Punk, who’s a practicing lesbian “Christ-follower” as well as “co-leader” of the Richmond Emergent Cohort aligned with Emergent Village, tells us of the time she first met her very good friend Peter Rollins:

In 2002 I went to Northern Ireland to do a DTS with YWAM. I met the great Peter Rollins and we developed a great friendship. His teachings and writings on postmodernism and Christianity radically shaped how I viewed my faith. I could no longer hang onto certainty with regards to interpreting scripture. (Online source)

And just why is it Rollins feels we would need to get rid of “certainty with regards” to the Bible? So he can then wow ’em with eternally deleterious double-talk such as:

The desire to get a God’s-eye view of the world is reflected throughout history in theology, mythology and philosophy. In much of the Western intellectual tradition there’s a strong desire to name and capture God in conceptual form. I am trying to explore the ancient idea that God transcends all names.

We can’t reduce God to a theological idea without making an idol out of words. Instead of thinking of God as a noun it is perhaps more useful to think of God as a verb. For God is known through action. (Online source)

Sorry about that Pete; 1) God is known only through Christ, 2) we can know God through Jesus because He also condescended to make Himself known through Holy Scripture, and 3) to revere God’s Word in the Bible is not idolatrous. But make no mistake, Peter Rollins is indeed quickly ascending within the Emerging Church as evidenced by the following praise for his book How (Not) To Speak Of God.

First we have the Empress of Emergence Phyllis Tickle: 

Here in pregnant bud is the rose, the emerging new configuration, of a Christianity that is neither Roman nor Protestant, neither Eastern nor monastic; but rather is the re-formation of all of them. Here, in pregnant bud, is third-millennium Christendom. —Phyllis Tickle

And then in the Foreword we see no less than main Emergence Guru Brian McLaren himself as he gushes:

I am a raving fan of the book you are holding. I loved reading it. I have already begun widely recommending it. In the last two days I have recommended it to three rabbis, and in recent weeks, to many Christian leaders… It helped me understand my own spiritual journey more clearly, and it gave me a sense of context for the work I’m involved in…

In fact, I would say this is one of the two or three most rewarding books of theology I have read in ten years… I am nearly always working through a work of theology, either ancient or contemporary. So when I say this book is among the best I’ve read, I’m saying something significant. And it’s more important still because the author of this book is a young—and I think it’s safe to say up-until-now unknown—emerging theologian.

But as this book makes clear, he deserves to be known and appreciated,… I share Peter’s enthusiasm for what he calls ‘the emergent conversation’. Here he makes one of the most important contributions to date to that conversation… Many will share my enthusiasm about this book and my gratitude to—and for—its author. —Brian McLaren, from the Foreword

 
See also:

PETER ROLLINS AND IKON SINGING “SEEDS OF DOUBT”

PETER ROLLINS AND IKON: GOD IN THE HANDS OF ANGRY SINNERS

FOR EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY OUT GOES THE BIBLE AND IN COMES “QUEER CHRISTIANS”

APPRISING MINISTRIES WITH A PEEK AT THE COMING SOTERIOLOGY OF EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY

EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY REPAINTING THE SOCIAL GOSPEL AND LIBERATION THEOLOGY

NEO-ORTHODOX APPROACH TO THE BIBLE PERFECT FIT FOR EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY 

IF YOU TRULY LOVE “JESUS” THERE ARE NO BOUNDARIES FOR THE “CHRIST-FOLLOWERS”