http://toddhdow.org/2007/11/12/tension-in-tolerence-a-review-of-brian-mclarens-a-generous-orthodoxy-part-i/ Thoughts, opinions and various writings Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:09:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://toddhdow.org/2007/11/12/tension-in-tolerence-a-review-of-brian-mclarens-a-generous-orthodoxy-part-i/#comment-1738 Going to Hell with Brian Mclaren Sun, 04 May 2008 22:10:39 +0000 http://toddhdow.org/2007/11/12/tension-in-tolerence-a-review-of-brian-mclarens-a-generous-orthodoxy-part-i/#comment-1738 I think it is by building from an ambiguous foundation that Mclaren finds his doctrine. Perhaps his book might be taken as an anti-doctrinal statement. Not against as in it's a terrible thing but against as in against putting himself in a box. He doesn't want to label himself as conservative or liberal (theologically) and thus puts himself beyond the reach of both labels in to "post" perhaps modernism, liberalism, conservatism or simply "post" that. Wanting to not let labels keep him from learning all there is to learn about spirituality and identity in this world and beyond it. I think it is by building from an ambiguous foundation that Mclaren finds his doctrine. Perhaps his book might be taken as an anti-doctrinal statement. Not against as in it’s a terrible thing but against as in against putting himself in a box. He doesn’t want to label himself as conservative or liberal (theologically) and thus puts himself beyond the reach of both labels in to “post” perhaps modernism, liberalism, conservatism or simply “post” that. Wanting to not let labels keep him from learning all there is to learn about spirituality and identity in this world and beyond it.

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