The New Age of Deconstruction: Responding to a Relevant Post
Today, Relevant Magazine posted an article titled, “ The Age of Deconstruction and Future of the Church ”. In this post the writer attempts to defend and/or justify the notion of destruction. Immediately the writer tries to portray deconstruction as the remedy for “Christians…falling right and left.” He defines it as, “the practice of revisiting and rethinking long held beliefs, specifically in the Christian faith.” Like many progressive terms, definitions are often hard to come by or misleading. To the writer’s credit, he does at least offer a definition. Unfortunately, it’s a remarkably vague definition. As we’ll see, the examples of deconstruction seem to be much more than that. Elsewhere in the electronic pages of Relevant Magazine, deconstruction is also defined as, “An academic term for the systematic pulling apart of the belief system you were raised in.” So already, one media source has provided two different takes on what deconstructionism is. One downplays it a...
