Inerrancy and the Spiritual Formation of Younger Evangelicals. Carlos R. Bovell

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id="ulink_87f174d8-dded-51f2-ae11-75baedc43cb8">7 “Modernity” in this instance refers to the intellectual and industrial effects of the Enlightenment. For example, how is an African woman who believed that a witchdoctor’s curse had been cast on her that prevented her from becoming pregnant to respond when it dawns on her that a relatively routine technological procedure allowed her to conceive soon after it was performed? Or how is a Christian parent to respond when she realizes that pills and not prayer are what is keeping her child from extreme emotional episodes?

      Recognition One

      Evangelical Worldview Philosophy Is “Corrupting” Our Youths

      Salient features of worldview philosophy (at least as employed by its most influential proponents) typically include: an insistence upon coherence, strategic approaches to effect the nullification of the plurality of “non-Christian” worldviews, and a concomitant validation of the elusive and much coveted “Christian” worldview. In this chapter, I suggest that evangelicals have set their youth up for a serious fall by over-welcoming worldview philosophy into their circles. Though worldview philosophy may prove serviceable to younger evangelicals in eliciting a much needed, critical self-awareness, the worldview mentality should be disseminated more discriminately—making clear to youth groups and college fellowships, for example, that worldview philosophy is a historically and culturally convenient tool that may prove helpful in developing, with varying success, a greater sense of critical


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