Learning from Evangelicals

By Tripp Fuller • Feb 26th, 2009 • Category: engaging

As part of the Transforming Theology project Dr. Clayton discusses three things that progressive Christians can learn from evangelicals.  All three he lists are good, but I can think of a few more.  Can you?  It may be because I like to think of myself as a progressive evangelical, emerging left, free-church sacramentalist who flirts with agnosticism on wednesdays.

Tripp Fuller is married to an awesome lady Alecia and has a handsome little baby boy named Elgin Thomas (aka E.T.) and Pebbles, the Schnoodle. He and Alecia are both graduates of Campbell University (where they met), the Divinity School of Wake Forest University and ordained ministers. He is working on his PhD in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University. A few other things he digs are books, cigars, pipes, Shaq, guitar, pirates, fishing, the Counting Crows, and good conversations about Religion and Politics. The podcast is the most time consuming hobby he has ever had besides reading and blogging through Wolfhart Pannenberg's 3 volume systematic theology. Follow Tripp on Twitter | Tripp on Facebook
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  1. Existential Punk on February 26th, 2009 at 7:59 pm:

    i agree with him that liberals can learn from Evangelicals to have more passion but i disagree with not worrying about offending other or different faiths/beliefs. Maybe the forms Christianity have taken in this country NEED to die. We are on our way, like Europe 15 to 20 years ago, to becoming a post-Christendom society. People do not see a need for religion or Jesus in their lives. Changing up our services, adding candles, projectors, sofas and coffee are NOT gonna make an impact. That is only putting a bandaid on a never-healing sore. A radical paradigm shift needs to take place in our thinking, how we view scripture, theology and doctrines. One of the few people i know who gets this and is doing it in theory and praxis is Pete Rollins from Northern Ireland.

    i am so burnt out on Evangelicals right now i am unable to see anything to learn from them at this point in my journey. So sorry but that is where i am at.

    Thanks for posting this.

    Warmest Regards,

    EP

  2. Tripp Fuller on February 26th, 2009 at 10:12 pm:

    I totally understand. I have never been to Ikon, but I have enjoyed all of Pete’s books and I know Philip does too. Glad you came by. I enjoy your blogging.

  3. Existential Punk on February 26th, 2009 at 10:16 pm:

    Thanks, Tripp and i enjoy yours as well! Keep up the great work you both are doing!

    Pax,

    EP

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