Far Too Heavy... Apologies

So this year I have been thinking a bit about such things as postmodernity (and whatever it means) and the emergent church (and whatever they're on/off about). So today in Christian Theology my prof gave an interesting summary of what the term postmodernity entailed. She said it was a plea for help. It was a plea for help from a world who is despairing because everything that they put their confidence in is failing them. Reason and the capacity to think, science and experimental development, philosophy and psychology, the arts and all the other faculties of study... none of these has provided answers without developing more problems and questions. There is Nihlism in our society, a despair that beautifully contrasts with the hope that Jesus Christ has extended to us all.
I think when we try to come at God in our usual arrogant way of study, we fool ourselves to think that we can fathom God's infinity. We surround ourselves with theologies and then we cling to them as though they were the final say on who God was. One thing that I've started to appreciate is the anabaptist philosophy on theology. It is a focus less on clinging to a theology so tightly as to take drastic measures to protect it, but in making sure that any theology they believe is something that can be lived out and makes sense when practiced in a community. We have learned a lot about who God is and His character through his historical interaction with us, his people. I think that we can know certain things about God. I think we also really like to imagine that we know God enough to put limits on his capacities.
There is a real danger in creating a generation that believes what they're told, when they're told it without question. It's a danger that the German people succumbed to in the 1930's. I think that it is important to challenge and compare whatever it is that we are being taught or handed, with a critical mind seeking after truth. I think this involves a lifetime of reading, thinking and conversing with the wise people in our lives.
Oh and something else that came up in one of my classes:
You know the verse saying that as followers of Christ we need to, "Be in the world, but not of the world". I found it kind of interesting that this "verse" never actually appears in scripture. It's someone's paraphrase of what Jesus was praying to his Father in the garden. Check it out. John 17:6-18.

Peace Out *w/ Kip lisp*