{"id":77,"date":"2004-12-05T17:47:39","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T01:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2004-12-05T17:47:39","modified_gmt":"2004-12-06T01:47:39","slug":"emerging-missiology-or-epistemology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2004\/12\/05\/emerging-missiology-or-epistemology\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging &#8212; Missiology or Epistemology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been spending some time lately hanging out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theooze.com\">The Ooze<\/a>, which has been fun and fascinating.  There seem to be two related by different strands in the &#8220;Emergent&#8221; movement.  One is missiological:  an effort to relate to the &#8220;heart language&#8221; of post-modern people.  The other epistemological:  an effort to reenvision theology in light of post-foundationalist epistemology.<\/p>\n<p>The latter trend is the most interesting, but also the most dangerous.  Christianity has always adapted to shifts in epistemology:  from &#8220;authority&#8221; based, to &#8220;rationality&#8221; based, and now to post-foundationalism.  The difficult trick is to treat epistemology as simply a tool for understanding truth, rather than an ideological fortress.  This is true not only of &#8220;modernists&#8221; who cling to the notion that reason provides a universal foundation for truth claims, but also to post-foundationalists who reject anything &#8220;modernists&#8221; say because of their foundationalism.  It&#8217;s fascinating to see this process in development at sites like The Ooze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been spending some time lately hanging out at The Ooze, which has been fun and fascinating. There seem to be two related by different strands in the &#8220;Emergent&#8221; movement. One is missiological: an effort to relate to the &#8220;heart language&#8221; of post-modern people. The other epistemological: an effort to reenvision theology in light of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-1f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}