Gobbledygook. MacArthur doesn’t have the faintest idea what he’s talking about. I bet he’s never even read any Barth. Anyone who knows Barth, Niebuhr, Kierkegaard and the last two centuries of historical theology is laughing himself silly as he reads this.
I wouldn’t give this a passing grade if one of my freshmen turned it in as a term paper.
MacArthur has cobbled it together from sound-byte/Cliff’s Notes/internet wallpaper. He stitches a few word-associations together but has not notion of what the words mean (existentialist, postmodern Neo-Orthodox).
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Does Macarthur have a problem with that?
I have a great deal of respect for Macarthur from my protestant days, but he is so wedded to Sola Scriptura (which is, to be sure, a hallmark of evangelicalism) that he throws the baby out with the bathwater. Renovare, for instance, is much more comfortable including Macarthur in the kingdom than Macarthur is including Renovare. His list is an absurd “straw-man” mix that displays an ugly arrogance that has no place in the kinngdom. It has taken many of us who have made the move from fundamentalism/evengelicalism to Eastern Orthodoxy a long time to recognize how spiritually untenable the dogma of Sola Scriptura actually is. In fact, I believe that it has been one of the key factors in the complete fragmentation of western Christianity, with tragic results for modern culture.
Sola Scritura rejects neo orthodoxy, and will never overcome it!
“Whoa to those who call good evil, and evil good”.