What’s wrong with the old kind of Christianity?
Jazz Theologian: Brian, How does, A New Kind of Christianity, build upon your past works and
what’s wrong with the old kind of Christianity?
McLaren: Several
people have said that NKoCy summarizes my work to date and extends it into new
territory, and I think there’s a lot of truth to that, although it is less
directly engaged with contemporary crises than Everything Must Change, or with
spiritual formation than Finding Our Way Again. Instead of saying what’s wrong
with the old kind of Christianity, I’d simply say that as the Christian faith
matures over the centuries, we are ready for new challenges, new learnings, and
it would be a shame to fail to keep maturing. So older kinds of Christianity
were appropriate to their times and our maturity, but we need to keep growing,
learning, and maturing.
Join the Groove…do you think we need a new kind of Christianity?
