Pastor’s MeetingPop Theology

June 1, 2011Setting the Stage for MinistryAlan Shelby

AD 67-313

“Conversion” AD 313

PERGAMOS RELIGION The Doctrine of Balaam

Celibate priesthood and nuns (vestal virgins) 300 AD Prayers for the dead 300 AD Cross (Chaldean tau) the symbol of Christianity 300 AD Priests paid by the state 312 AD Worship of saints and angels 375 AD Performing the mass begins 394 AD Mary worshipped as Queen of Heaven (Jer 7,44) 431 AD Vesture worn by priests 520 AD Extreme unction as a sacrament 526 AD Purgatory invented by Pope Gregory from Origen 593 AD Prayers offered to Mary 600 AD

Result: A Satanic Millennium, 476-1453 A.D.

SYNCRETISM

The attempt to reconcile contrary beliefs, often while melding practices of various schools of thought, and thereby assert an underlying unity.

Modern Example

Contextualization

Scripture Contextualization

Cultural Contextualization

MODERN EXAMPLE

Modern Example

“Salvation” – that’s individualistic“Romans Road” – that’s enlightenment data“Bible a handbook” – that’s modernityPrinciples vs stories“Sound doctrine” – that’s knowledge about God

Undercard Fights

MacArthurvs Driscoll

MacArthurvs Driscoll

Pauline Theology

1976—Krister Stendahl“The Apostle Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West”

1977—E.P. Sanders

Paul and Palestinian Judaism

1982—James D.G. Dunn

“The New Perspective on Paul and the Law”

NPP—New Perspective on Paul

Bishop N.T. Wright

1992—The New Testament and the People of God

Gospel

“Righteousness of God”

Judgment

Justification

Wrongs of NT Wright

Diminishing Paul

Sanders—rejects the historical JesusDunn—accepts higher criticismWright—justifies Anglicanism

Rights of NT Wright

Modern Example

Modern Example

Modern Example