Here is the second part to PBS’s special on the Emerging Church movement. It was another fair piece, focusing this time on the “grandfather” of the emerging church conversation, Brian McLaren.
There is one part, though, I would be interested in comments. Toward the end of the piece, there is section on the idea of truth and what is knowable with certainty:
KIM LAWTON (To Pastor McLaren): Are there truths related to the faith out there that we can know, that we can be certain about?
Pastor MCLAREN: First of all, when we talk about faith, the word “faith” and the word “certainty,” we’ve got a whole lot of problems there. What do we mean by “certainty”? If I could substitute the word “confidence,” I’d say, yes, I think there are things we can be confident about, and those are the things we have to really work with.
Prof. CARSON: Human beings can know things, not with the certainty that belongs only to God, but with all kinds of degrees of certainty on which you base your life. The kinds of knowledge that are appropriate to human beings.
Any comments?
