It looks at two specific dams shaping the churches today—the modern and the postmodern. Table 2 Modernity Is about Erasing Origins Postmodernity Is about Borrowing Origins Reduces mystery to history, chance, or preference. Reduces mystery to spiritual options and experiences. Replaces memory with: Progress Future Next Frontier Replaces memory with nostalgia, borrowing bits and pieces from every kind of tradition to assemble its own brief experience in the present moment. Recasts mission as self-actualization.
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