{"id":4031,"date":"2006-10-12T04:32:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T08:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2026-07-11T13:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:22:38","slug":"emerging-from-the-emerging-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/emerging-from-the-emerging-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging from the Emerging Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>by <\/strong><\/strong>Kjos Ministries\u00a0<\/strong>
\nby Richard Nathan<\/p>\n

I’m going through a worldview shake up.<\/p>\n

A great image, a great icon that I have cherished, is being torn down before my eyes–the image of C. S. Lewis as the premier modern, intellectual Christian. I don’t think C. S. Lewis created this image, but the difference between how he appears to many Christians and what he actually was, taught, wrote, and spoke about is very great \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and seldom mentioned.<\/p>\n

Consider the fact that during his argument about education in his little book The Abolition of Man<\/em>, Lewis defines the ground of all truth as the Tao, the Chinese concept of impersonal truth. This effectively makes Christianity a subset and the God of creation a subset of the Tao. If you find this hard to believe, look at pages 27 to 29 in Macmillan’s 1978 paperback edition. How can the “greatest Christian apologist of the 20th century”–as he is often called–write things like this? Here’s a quote from part of this section:
\n“This conception (A view of the reality of truth) in all its forms, Platonic, Aristotelian, Stoic, Christian, and Oriental alike, I shall henceforth referred to for brevity simply as ‘the Tao.'”<\/p>\n

You might be asking yourself as I’\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m asking myself: How can this be? How can it be that evangelical scholars and leaders look to various famous modern philosophers and writers and accept and propagate their teachings when they so obviously conflict with what the Bible teaches?<\/p>\n

I’ve gotten a clue while studying the history of Christianity about what may be going on today, for this same process has happened before. In fact, it occurred several times in different periods since the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s. It has been both disturbing and enlightening to discover how much various philosophies from the unbelieving world have been accepted within the Church. This process still continues, and I call it …Click here to read more.<\/a><\/p>\n

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