A New Kind of Christianity - Brian McLaren [156]
Amos, 210
anticipatory ethic, 200, 201
anxiety, 20–21, 175, 189, 212–214, 229
apathy, 200, 237
argument, 17–18, 81–83
Aristotle, 38, 47, 265n5
Aristotelian thought. See Platonic-Aristotelian dualism
ascent of man, 49–53
astronomy, 15–16, 177
atheists, 19, 235, 288n8
baptism, 140, 150, 151, 183, 186
beliefs, 8, 14–18, 204, 226, 235, 262n2
Bible as community library: encountering God in, 94–97; and the individual, 93–94; revelation through conversation, 89–94; vs. constitution approach, 81–84, 96, 271n7
biblical authority: and divine inspiration, 82, 89, 91–92; “God’s voice,” 94–95; and interpretation techniques, 79–80, 91–92; liberal/ conservative Christians views of, 96; modern troubles associated with,67–70; need for new approach to,70, 76–77, 86; and the oral tradition, 83–84; questions around, 19; sola scriptura, 91–92; writing of the Bible, 80–81. See also Bible as community library; constitutional approach
biblical narrative: attempts to enhance the,35, 44–45; diagrams of the, 33–34,40, 41, 112–113; location of Jesus in,36–37, 41, 45, 115–118; questioning the, 19, 34–35. See also frontwards reading; Greco-Roman tradition; three-dimensional biblical narrative
born-again, 28, 130, 140
Buddhists, 235, 236
Cain and Abel, 51–53, 56, 268n11
capitalism, 39, 122, 231, 232, 255
Catholic Church, 8–10, 16–17, 163,189, 209, 247
Christ, 132, 138–139, 277n4 Christian, 28–29
Christianity: discredited by conservative Christians, 6–7; early church,11–12, 163–164, 225, 238; failure at pluralism, 208–209, 287n2; forward motion in, 11–13, 238–239; future of term, 255–256; prevalence of/ violence in, 12, 207–208, 215; quest growing out of ancient, 227–229; true disciples in, 28–29
church. See modern church; postmodern church
church change-agentry, 247–251, 296n8
church leadership resistance, 244–245, 250
Church on the Other Side, The (McLaren), 8
churchgoer “conversion,” 4–5
circumcision, 149, 198, 204, 223
city dwellers, 51, 52, 56, 230
Cobb, Thomas, 71
colonialism, 9, 209, 213, 231, 237
community library. See Bible as community library
conservative Christians: dangerous political ideology of, 6–7; dualism and, 9, 39, 214; on homosexuality,178; misuse of the Bible, 78–80, 96; moral reasoning in, 249
constitutional approach: and appropriate ways of seeing, 84–85, 271n10; and homosexuality, 177–178; identity of Jesus in, 120, 128; as inadequate, 69, 96; to Job, 89–91, 94; justifying genocide, 108–109; moving away from, 85–86; original intent and, 80–81; pitfalls of the, 75–76, 78–80; and pluralism, 212; in proslavery literature, 71–75; and various interpretive techniques, 79–80, 91–92; vs. community library, 81–84, 96,271n7
conventional eschatology: dispensationalism, 191–193; Greco-Roman narrative and, 193–194, 196, 198; last judgment in, 195, 203–205, 286n33; vs. participatory eschatology, 193–197, 199–201, 203–206
Copernicus, 177
courage to differ, 243
Cox, Harvey, 11–13
crucifixion, 125, 126, 169
culture, 81–82
Danielou, Jean, 238, 239
Darwin, Charles, 68, 178
debate, 17–18, 81–83
deconstruction, 55, 232
Deuteronomy, 90, 93–94, 182–183
devil, 175
disciples, 28–29
dispensationalism, 191–194
divine inspiration, 82, 89, 91–92
dogma, 14–18
dualism, 38–39, 175–176, 237. See also Platonic-Aristotelian dualism; social dualism
early church, 11–12, 163–164, 225,238. See also Romans
ecclesiolae in ecclesia (little churches in the big church), 247
Einstein, Albert, 15, 83
empire builders, 51, 53, 56, 230
environmental crisis, 68, 107, 192, 231–232, 253–255
eschatology: God and, 194, 196, 203–205, 286n25; questions about, 21; regarding the “second coming,” 197–198; and Revelation, 122–126, 286n26. See also conventional eschatology; participatory eschatology
essences, Platonic, 37–38, 176
eternity, 34, 35, 37, 44
ethics, 68–69
Ethiopian eunuch, 181–183, 186
Evangelicals, 10, 11, 187, 189, 247, 282n13
evangelism, 216
Everything Must Change (McLaren),253–254
evil: and the ascent of man, 51; in dualisms, 175, 213, 214, 237; God’s response of faithfulness/mercy to, 52