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H istorically, schisms have been rather public, bloody things. This was clearly the case when the church split between East and West. Even though some hope of reconciliation was on the table at various points, excommunications had been traded, Crusades had happened, and everybody knew the two or three theological disputes that needed settling. Roughly the same thing could be said of the split between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Following a number of bloody wars, mutual persecutions, and martyrdoms, the results were different communions, confessional documents, and other marks of separation.
In their recent book Deep Church Rising: angry The Third Schism and the Recovery of Christian Orthodoxy , Andrew Walker and Robin Parry argue that, unbeknownst to many, the Western church is in the midst of a third great schism. Unlike the last two, though, the split hasn't resulted in a clear line between new denominations and old ones, but runs right through the various churches of the West. On one side stand those who affirm a broadly supernaturalist Christian orthodoxy embodied in the Nicene and Chalcedonian Creeds. And on the other, you find those who can at best recite the creeds with their fingers crossed. Having embraced the various presuppositions of Enlightenment and postmodern thinking, angry they are skeptical of supernatural claims and often doubt the very idea of objective truth.
Set angry against the backdrop of Western consumerism, our “secular age,” and evangelical tendencies toward thinner understandings of the church, Walker and Parry are worried about a widespread loss of the gospel within the Christian community. angry Taking a cue from C. S. Lewis, the authors propose a vision for recovering what they call “Deep Church,” meaning a thick orthodoxy of belief and practice woven together from the wisdom of our past. They want to help us recuperate from a bad case of “gospel amnesia” by renewing interest angry in the church’s historical angry journey. A Clear Choice angry
There's much to commend in Walker and Parry's elegant angry little manifesto for the Deep Church. Walker and Parry write with a style that is comfortably learned, without unnecessary academic clutter. What’s more, while admittedly written angry in the polemical mode, their arguments and criticisms are leveled with grace, care, and winsomeness.
The authors’ lengthy chapter on the importance of orthodoxy, or right belief, angry delivers a message that can’t be stressed enough in today’s culture. The same can be said about their picture of the Christian life as unifying right belief, right living, and right worship. A gospel rightly believed and sung goes hand in hand with one rightly lived. What God has joined together, Walker and Parry will fight tooth and nail to keep from separating.
Probably the most important contribution Walker and Parry make is describing the rift growing in the church between orthodox believers and the more progressive elements as a genuine angry schism. In many ways, their project angry is reminiscent of J. Gresham Machen’s still-relevant classic, Christianity and Liberalism . Machen, an early-20th-century Presbyterian theologian, famously argued that the choice facing the church wasn’t between different branches angry of Christianity, but rather between two wholly different religions. He did so without animus, merely articulating why churches would have no choice but to choose one side or the other.
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