here we are
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/pc_article.php?id=7151
Here is review from a magazine we should all read. (that's biting sarcasm for the uninitiated)
Two observations. While I would probably agree with assessment of evangelicalism offered in the work reviewed, I find it somewhat amusing that the reviewer is so "You peggeed them, man". What he seems to miss is that Relevant is as smarmily evangelical as any Billy Grahamite with a "Honk if you love W" bumper sticker.
Merely being a bit less legalistic and using slang with a bit more fluidity does not free a magazine from the snares of Christian wannabe-ism.
The author seems to understand this as a parody of Christian sub-culture. By all appearances, this is what mainstream Christianity has become. Relevant would itself be a sub-culture to evangelicalism in that case.
Here is review from a magazine we should all read. (that's biting sarcasm for the uninitiated)
Two observations. While I would probably agree with assessment of evangelicalism offered in the work reviewed, I find it somewhat amusing that the reviewer is so "You peggeed them, man". What he seems to miss is that Relevant is as smarmily evangelical as any Billy Grahamite with a "Honk if you love W" bumper sticker.
Merely being a bit less legalistic and using slang with a bit more fluidity does not free a magazine from the snares of Christian wannabe-ism.
The author seems to understand this as a parody of Christian sub-culture. By all appearances, this is what mainstream Christianity has become. Relevant would itself be a sub-culture to evangelicalism in that case.
posted by Brother Makarias | 7:13 AM
1 Comments:
Search for Relevant on First Things and see what Fr. Neuhaus had to say.
He was none to kind. With all respect to our friends who enjoy it, I find the magazine terribly pedantic.
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