Skip to main content
SHARPER IRON
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” (Proverbs 27:17)
  • About
    • About Sharper Iron
    • Doctrinal Statement
    • Contact
    • Search
  • Forum
    • Forum Home
    • Comment Guidelines
    • Search
  • Account
    • Log in
    • Register

Wait, You’re Not Deconstructing?

By Filings on Mon, 02/14/22
Bible, Theology & Philosophy
Deconstruction
Systematic Theology
Thomas Aquinas
0

“I felt, for a time, unmoored. Like many seminary students, I had been praying for years to a God who I had pictured as being just like me, only larger….What happened during those early years of my academic study of theology was a kind of deconstruction. More properly, it was a correction.” - C.Today

0
0

Discussion

User image
JD Miller

NewThis sounds like a

Wed, 02/16/22

This sounds like a conversation I had a few days ago. I used the term “deconversion” since I was referring to someone who had left the faith. I was told I should be using the term “deconstruction” since that was the term that many were using. I explained that “deconstruction” could simple be reformation and that although some deconstruction stories did lead to deconversion others could lead to a more Biblical view of theology.

0
0

Related . . .

Topics: Religious Trends, Nones, Deconstruction, American Culture
  • Religious Change in America: They Buried the Lead
  • Ten Reasons Christians Are Deconstructing Their Faith
  • What Is Deconstruction?
  • 7 Books on Deconstruction
  • Review of Walking Through Deconstruction: How to Be a Companion in a Crisis of Faith

Pagination

  • Page 1
  • Next page

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

(ESV, Proverbs 15:2)

Footer

  • About
  • Contact
  • Search
  • Forum

Since 2005

Image
2005 SI Logo Image