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There was an article in my local paper on Fuller Theological Seminary by associated press writer
Richard Ostling Titled:
"Fuller opens a window on emerging Christianity
( I tried to find it on the net but had no luck)

Here are a few excerpts
***"its clear the older emphasis of soul-winning alone is fading these younger evangelicals intend to combine evangelism and social action".***

***"To reach young adults evangelicals are creating"postmodern" fellowships that shed most traditional forms of organized religions"***


They boast of their 4,900 students from many denominations and their 3500 graduates round the World.

Just imagine, We now have thousands of Little Soren Kierkegaard and Peter Drucker existentialists out there not trying to win souls but teaching them to take a
"Leap of Faith"

[blue-duncan]

"We now have thousands of Little Soren Kierkegaard"

You throw Kierkegaard's name around like you knew what you were talking about. Kierkegaard wrote against the sterile rationalistic Enlightenment thinking that permeated the Danish state church with its Deist theology. His writings put transcendence back into the state theology. His concept of "leap of faith" was meant to move people from thinking you could be born into Christianity. Just because you were baptized as a child did not make you a Christian, there had to be a crises; a distance between one's present state and the "saved" state. That's why he proposed that it was easier for a pagan to be saved than for a "christian". Here is a quote from a review of a biography of Kierkegaard that might peak your curiosity to learn more about his thinking before you use him in a negative sense.

"The larger problem with Kierkegaard’s work was its severity: he offered a stern rebuke and an even sterner challenge to an entire religious establishment. In Denmark, baptism in the state church had become a matter-of-course rite of citizenship. Indeed, for Kierkegaard, “Christendom” had become a mistaken baptizing of nearly everything: Where real Christianity called for a transformation of one’s whole life, Christendom simply “christened” everything—giving it a new name and leaving it otherwise unchanged. “What Christianity wanted was chastity—to do away with the whorehouse. The change is this, that the whorehouse remains exactly what it was in paganism, lewdness in the same proportion, but it has become a ‘Christian’ whorehouse