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Post-MODERNISM and REPENTANCE: The impossible mix -- rolan Monje , ILC 2009, denver co

Post-MODERNISM and REPENTANCE: The impossible mix -- rolan Monje , ILC 2009, denver co. Part 2 of “Post-modernism and Sound Doctrine”. Christianity under siege. Pre-modern Age. Modern Age. Post-modern Age. Rationalism breeding skepticism Relativism breeding situationism.

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Post-MODERNISM and REPENTANCE: The impossible mix -- rolan Monje , ILC 2009, denver co

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  1. Post-MODERNISM and REPENTANCE: The impossible mix-- rolanMonje, ILC 2009, denver co Part 2 of “Post-modernism and Sound Doctrine”

  2. Christianity under siege Pre-modern Age Modern Age Post-modern Age Rationalism breeding skepticism Relativism breeding situationism

  3. The seismic shift

  4. Repentance – a biblical expectation • Integral part of Christianity • Weighty theme in both testaments • For the disciple: • Repentance looks back to covenant theology in the Old Testament • Repentance to be saved (Acts 2; Acts 3) • Repentance to stay saved (Acts 19; Eph 4) Brought into question by post-modern thinking

  5. Let’s take a look at some modern and post-modern thinkers and compare their thoughts with Scripture

  6. Bakhtin vs. Peter • Bakhtin takes from Wellhausen (Documentary Hypothesis) • Bakhtin: Bible stories are dialogic, inviting the reader to participate and interpret • For Bakhtin, “[The Bible is…] the infinite and unfinalized dialogue in which no meaning dies”

  7. Peter writes • 2 Pet 3.16 There are some things in [Paul’s letters] that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures. You therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned, beware that you are not carried away with the error of the lawless and lose your own stability.

  8. Corrupted claim: There are infinite acceptable interpretations of the Bible and all applications are equally valid. • Timeless truth: Not all biblical interpretations are acceptable; there are biblical expectations that are non-negotiable

  9. Jean-Luc Marion vs. James • For Marion, to love another = to love one’s own idea of another (experience of “chance cause”) • Jean-Luc Marion (Prolegomena to Charity, 2002): I must, then, name this love my love…like an unseen mirror, the image of myself. Love, loved for itself, inevitably ends as self-love, in the phenomenological figure of self-idolatry.

  10. Ja 2.8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right.

  11. Corrupted claim: We cannot love purely since loving another person inevitably means idolatrous self-love. • Timeless truth: Loving your neighbor in and of itself is right.

  12. Derrida vs. Isaiah • Derrida reeks of new age mysticism where self is associated with divinity and concepts of responsibility/duty to God are condemned. • Derrida (The Gift of Death, 1990): One such a structure of conscience exists…then what I call God exists, (there is) what I call God in me… I call myself God. God is in me, he is the absolute “me” or “self”…And he is made manifest…when there appears the desire and power to render absolutely invisible and to constitute within oneself a witness of that invisibility.

  13. Is 37.16 O LORD Almighty, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. • Is 43.10 You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.

  14. Corrupted claim: Self-consciousness is “God” (absolute authority); we witness to the invisible consciousness. • Timeless truth: We are responsible to a sovereign God through a personal relationship.

  15. Descartes vs. Ezekiel • Descartes (modernist) takes from humanist perspectives • Descartes (Meditations, 1641): I find that I am intermediate between God and nothingness…there is nothing in me to account for my being deceived or led into error…I understand that I can err without God’s having given me a special ability to do so. Rather, I fall into error because my God-given ability to judge the truth is not infinite.

  16. Ezekiel writes • Ez 18.4 For every living soul belongs to me, the father as well as the son—both alike belong to me. The soul who sins is the one who will die. • Ez 18.17,30 He withholds his hand from sin and takes no usury or excessive interest. He keeps my laws and follows my decrees. He will not die for his father’s sin; he will surely live…Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall.

  17. Corrupted claim: We cannot ultimately be responsible for our faults because God made us limited. • Timeless truth: We are responsible for the choices that we make; sin becomes full-blown when we allow it to.

  18. Conclusions • The Bible is reliable and veritable. • Each person is responsible for his/her own actions, including acts of the sinful nature. • God is merciful and eagerly desires repentance from his people.

  19. As we keep free from the clutches of post-modernism, let’s embrace the joy of repentance!

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