At this point in our series, we now understand how the Bible came into existence through the miracle of Revelation-Inspiration. We have also dealt with the issue of Ellen White, a modern non-canonical prophet for Seventh-day Adventists. We can now move on to the next phase of study which is to establish how to interpret the Bible (hermeneutics). RE
"If we distance ourselves and our point of view, a culture will always look peculiar to us." — Shahar Fisher We are nearly ready to begin reimagining Adventism. So far, we have seen three very important points that call us to reimagine our evangelistic approach. The first is that the secular mind is immersed in absurdity—an experience most people o
“Fundamentalists live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.” — Amos Oz The state of absurdity (the tension between meaninglessness and meaning) is a very real experience that must be understood and appreciated by Adventists if we wish to develop a meaningful approach to evangelism in the secular spher
Among the trend-setters in society, postmodernism is already dead and in its wake, a new zeitgeist is emerging known as metamodernism. In this article I will take a brief dive into the metamodern ideology and its impending challenge for the mission of the church. In keeping with postmodernism, metamodernism has yet to be adequately defined.
Revisiting Postmodernism: An Old Debate on a New Era is a collection of papers presented at The First Symposium on Postmodern Sensitive Mission held in 2012 at Andrews University (Michigan). The articles, written from a variety of perspectives, offer the reader a good grasp of the intellectual and cultural shift called “postmodernism” (including ba
