I went through what I considered a deconstruction in the mid 2000s that allowed me to rebuild my faith. It was a recognition that what I believed didn’t hold up to the world as it was.
That being said - what’s going on now is not Emergent Church era deconstruction. Hauerwas is right I suspect, despite the bluntness. There’s something narc…
I went through what I considered a deconstruction in the mid 2000s that allowed me to rebuild my faith. It was a recognition that what I believed didn’t hold up to the world as it was.
That being said - what’s going on now is not Emergent Church era deconstruction. Hauerwas is right I suspect, despite the bluntness. There’s something narcissistic about this whole project. And for whatever reason, it seems to mostly lead people to leaving Christian community entirely and making politics their God.
I think the pendulum has swung too far. And it has been pushing me more and more towards ancient/traditional faith (my kids going to Dominican Catholic school probably with the assist). There’s something to submitting to that which you may not understand, or to the wisdom and tradition that was built long before you arrived. That seems to be a needed anchor in a world of hyper individualism in which we find ourselves, where there is no telos besides greed/money/market on the right or identity markers on the left.
I went through what I considered a deconstruction in the mid 2000s that allowed me to rebuild my faith. It was a recognition that what I believed didn’t hold up to the world as it was.
That being said - what’s going on now is not Emergent Church era deconstruction. Hauerwas is right I suspect, despite the bluntness. There’s something narcissistic about this whole project. And for whatever reason, it seems to mostly lead people to leaving Christian community entirely and making politics their God.
I think the pendulum has swung too far. And it has been pushing me more and more towards ancient/traditional faith (my kids going to Dominican Catholic school probably with the assist). There’s something to submitting to that which you may not understand, or to the wisdom and tradition that was built long before you arrived. That seems to be a needed anchor in a world of hyper individualism in which we find ourselves, where there is no telos besides greed/money/market on the right or identity markers on the left.
Read James K.A. Smith. His book You Are What You Love addresses just this.