The Post Evangelical Quotes

“The thinker challenges current prejudices. He disturbs the complacent. He obstructs the busy pragmatists. He questions the very foundations of all around him, and in so doing throws doubts upon aims, motives, and purposes which those running affairs have neither time nor patience to investigate. The thinker is a nuisance”
― Dave Tomlinson, The Post-Evangelical: SPCK Classic – with a new Preface

“Basically, there are two kinds of Christianity: the one insists that divine revelation is entirely a past event; the other takes the view that revelation is ongoing – the Spirit continues to say new things. I would argue that the first approach is not only mistaken but also unbiblical. Jesus himself said that there were many things yet to be revealed which he was unable to share, but that the Spirit would lead us into all the truth. A progressive approach to revelation is not only permitted but actually required by Christ’s own vision of the work of the Holy Spirit. In an essay written some years ago,”
― Dave Tomlinson, The Post-Evangelical: SPCK Classic – with a new Preface