Kester Brewin

Tag: Stages of Faith

  • On Meaning [2]

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    It’s been a knackering week, so this is going to be even more lacking ‘meaning’ than it’s going to anyway, but here we go with part two. In response to the previous post ‘on meaning’, Nic wrote: [I want to react against] some sort of pre-ordained meaning, rules of engagement or ‘isness’- a divine database…

  • Grizzly Man | Searching for Salvation

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    Just been to see Grizzly Man. It’s fantastic. For those who haven’t heard about it, it’s a documentary cut by Werner Herzog, using footage shot by Timothy Treadwell on his summers living among Grizzly Bears in Alaska. It wouldn’t spoil the film for you to know that in his 13th summer there, he and his…

  • Neophilia [5] Subvert the Fantasy Church

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    Links: Neophilia [1]  |  Neophilia [2]  |  Neophilia [3]  |  Neophilia [4] Anyone been finding blogging more difficult than it used to be? Lost the novelty a bit, and now what seemed so easy and freeing is more of a chore at times? Lots of people I’ve read seem to have done recently… Welcome to…

  • Neophilia [4] | Unmask the Fantasy Self

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    Links: Neophilia [1] |  Neophilia [2] |  Neophilia [3] Over the last few posts I’ve been proposing that the Emerging Church needs to be aware of the dangers of ‘Neophilia’ – being in love with newness for newness’ sake. Neophilia is a revolutionary mode. It tries to effect quick change, but fails to settle on…

  • Neophilia [3] | Christian Fantasy Cycles and Stages of Faith

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    In the last post I tried to argue, using Booker’s excellent book ‘The Neophiliacs – Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties‘ that we must avoid sensationalism. That we must avoid the projected image, the sensational, which in the age of screens and billboards is a difficult thing to do. Booker warns that…

  • Neophilia [2] | Emerging Church and the Cult of Sensation | Keep it Real

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    ‘In this our time, the minds of men are so diverse, that some think it a great matter of conscience to depart from a piece of their old customs; and again, on the other side, some be so new-fangled, that they would innovate all things, and so despise the old, that nothing can like them…