Wokeness and Postmodernism and The Church
The “conservative” Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution allowing the use of Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory as tools for theology.
Time is fleeting, so this is going to be a digital dump of essential information. I’m going to scramble this thread a bit from Wokal DistΔnce. If you are a student of these topics (you should be), view the whole thread here. The spice will now flow:
RESOLVED, That critical race theory and intersectionality should only be employed as **analytical tools subordinate to Scripture—not as transcendent ideological frameworks…
RESOLVED, That Southern Baptists will carefully analyze how the information gleaned from these tools are employed to address social dynamics…
RESOLVED, That Southern Baptist churches and institutions repudiate the misuse of insights gained from critical race theory, intersectionality, and any unbiblical ideologies that can emerge from their use when absolutized as a worldview…
https://www.sbc.net/resource-library/resolutions/on-critical-race-theory-and-intersectionality/
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The Wokeness and postmodernism have come for Christianity
The conservative Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution allowing the use of Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory as tools for theology. So how did we get here? Two words:
Emergent Church
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While Mclaren eventually proved to be the leader of the movement, he wasn't the first to bring postmodernism in to the Church. The first one to do that was very likely John Caputo in 1987. With a book on DECONSTRUCTION in Hermeneutics (fancy term for biblical interpretation) pic.twitter.com/cyKTmRhedY
9/ That @RaviZacharias clip from is from 2007 when the deconstruction was the sort that attacks meaning and questions truth. But the Emergent church switched their focus from Meaning to Power. Martin Van Steenwyk explains the shift he helped facilitate in this interview from 2009 pic.twitter.com/h0ka4zTtDP
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5/ In 1996 Christian Theologian Stanley Grenz saw all this tried sounding the alarm with his book "A Primer on Postmodernism," in which he predicts the coming of postmodernism and says Christians need to be ready for it. (turns out he was right, and 20 years ahead of his time) pic.twitter.com/2GQJGmTJwi
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So as you can see, the Emergent Church of the late 90's and early 2000's has it's fingerprints all over the Social Justice Christianity that we see today. This is no surprise those are both fruit of the same poisonous tree of postmodernism.
What do we do now?
Fight.
Great interview with Wokal DistΔnce that touches on this topic: