Well, without further ado, let's dive on into this.
Shane Claiborne is the founder of a New Monastic community called the Potter Street Community (formerly The Simple Way). He is often compared to Mother Theresa in his outlook on poverty and war. Blah, blah, blah.
As we will soon see, Claiborne is a self-proclaimed postmodernist and a radical who hearkens back to "ancient ways", "ancient whispers reminding us that another world is possible." He is an Emergent, which is to say that he rejects the clear and apparent meaning of the Scriptures in favor of a more "universal", more "tolerant" message.
Jim Wallis is a famous socialist leader, and a chief of the liberal christian sect. He too might be called Emergent, in that he exchanges the truth of Jesus' Kingdom in Heaven ("My kingdom is not of this world" - John 18:36) for an earthly, communist kingdom. He is also one of Obama's spiritual advisors (shocker).
This is an incomplete article on the authors of this book, based on some preliminary research. I hope to one day revisit this topic, but for the moment let's press on.
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