Thursday, March 04, 2010

Scot McKnight Reviews Brian McLaren's Latest Book

Review: Brian McLaren's A New Kind of Christianity
by Scot McKnight

Scot McKnight concludes that Brian McLaren's "new kind of Christainity" is nothing other than old liberalism. He is right. Scot concludes his review,

Alas, A New Kind of Christianity shows us that Brian, though he is now thinking more systemically, has fallen for an old school of thought. I read this book carefully, and I found nothing new. It may be new for Brian, but it's a rehash of ideas that grew into fruition with Adolf von Harnack and now find iterations in folks like Harvey Cox and Marcus Borg. For me, Brian's new kind of Christianity is quite old. And the problem is that it's not old enough.

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