Apr
02
2010
Everyday Ministry and "A New Kind of Christianity"
Bob Kellemen, the founder and CEO of RPM Ministries, recently completed a two-week long, thirteen part blog series reviewing Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity. He works his way through all ten of McLaren’s questions, with a specific focus on matters related to pastoral and practical theology. Here’s how Kellemen describes his approach to reviewing McLaren’s work:
I’m passionate about pastoral theology and practical theology. I think they’re missing ingredients in these conversations. We rightly approach these issues from the “academic” theology perspectives of systematic theology, biblical theology, and exegetical theology. But we often omit the “spiritual” theology perspectives of how a book like A New Kind of Christianity impacts real life and everyday ministry. When we fail to respond to Brian from a practical theology perspective, we further enhance the false caricature and the extreme stereotype that “the old kind of Christianity” is all about academic theology and not also equally about practical theology.
You can find the links to all thirteen posts by clicking here or you can read the entire series in Word format here. Kellemen has also provided a helpful compilation of other responses to McLaren’s book.