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Certainty, a Place to Stand: Critique of the Emergent Church of Postevangelicals is unavailable, but you can change that!

Certainty: A Place to Stand is a critique of the Emergent Church movement—a movement that began in the late twentieth century and has moved across the world in the past decade. The views of the Emergent Church are postmodern, stressing individualism, experience-based faith, and a lack of absolutes in matters of doctrine. While there are a number of praiseworthy effects that have arisen from this...

prove to be enormously intolerant and dogmatic. Political correctness is the new absolute. This political correctness is intolerant of intolerance, not of substantive ideas. This form of open-mindedness does not identify with open discourse but with the conclusions of skepticism. It wants to own its own premises while denying other ideas the right of certainty. It reinstates certainty by denying it! Yet the media loves to depict evangelicals as “intolerant.” Postconservatives committed essentially
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