20 / 20 vision ?

Notes: The 2000 Denver General Convention of the Episcopal Church called on the church to double in size by 2020. The author considers how to evangelize a "post-modern" society and looks to N.T. Wright and especially his William Porcher DuBose Lectures "The Resurrection of the Messiah" given at Sewanee in October 1997. Quoting Wright he says: "And how long must it be before we learn that our task as Christians is to be in the front row of constructing the post-modern world ? The individual angst of the 1960s has become the corporate and cultural angst of the 1990s. What is the Christian answer to it ? The Christian answer is the love of God, which goes through death and out the other side. What is missing from the postmodern equation is, of course, love."

Subjects: Apologies - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion; Wright, N.T. (Nicholas Thomas), 1948-; Postmodernism - Religious aspects - Christianity; Evangelism - Episcopal Church