{"id":3,"date":"2010-03-09T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2010\/03\/interview-with-brian-mclaren-p1.html"},"modified":"2010-03-09T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T02:00:00","slug":"interview-with-brian-mclaren-p1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2010\/03\/interview-with-brian-mclaren-p1.html","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Brian McLaren (p1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a><\/span>What’s wrong with the old kind of Christianity?<\/b><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Recently, I interviewed Brian McLaren about his new book, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming The Faith<\/a>.  McLaren is author of over a dozen books and among Time magazine “25 Most influential Evangelicals” (2005).  The interview covers a number of pertinent subjects for faith in the 21st century, for the next week here at Jazz Theologian we’ll consider one item each day. <\/p>\n
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Jazz Theologian<\/b><\/i>:  Brian, How does, A New Kind of Christianity<\/span>, build upon your past works and
\nwhat’s wrong with the old kind of Christianity?<\/i><\/p>\n

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McLaren<\/b>:  <\/span>Several
\npeople have said that NKoCy summarizes my work to date and extends it into new
\nterritory, and I think there’s a lot of truth to that, although it is less
\ndirectly engaged with contemporary crises than Everything Must Change, or with
\nspiritual formation than Finding Our Way Again. Instead of saying what’s wrong
\nwith the old kind of Christianity, I’d simply say that as the Christian faith
\nmatures over the centuries, we are ready for new challenges, new learnings, and
\nit would be a shame to fail to keep maturing. So older kinds of Christianity
\nwere appropriate to their times and our maturity, but we need to keep growing,
\nlearning, and maturing.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Join the Groove…do you think we need a new kind of Christianity?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

(This interview also appears at UrbanFaith.com<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n

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