Brian D. Mclaren’s Contextualization of the Gospel

Abstract

Brian McLaren and his writings intrigue me. He reminds me of Dr. Paul Holmer, my adviser during undergraduate days as a philosophy major at the University of Minnesota. A recognized authority on Kierkegaardian and Scandinavian philosophy, Holmer later became Dean of Yale Divinity School. But while at Minnesota his quips alternatively amused and frustrated some of us believer students. We were amused when Holmer playfully accused our resident logical positivist, Herbert Feigl, of attending a church where “he could have his religion and not have it at the same time.” We were frustrated when he made disparaging references to his own upbringing in the Evangelical Mission Covenant Church.