He described McLaren’s view of inspiration as “light years to the left” of Harry Emerson Fosdick, a famous liberal Protestant who preached at the historic Riverside Church in New York City and was a central figure in the modernist-fundamentalist controversy in the 1920s and 1930s

Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., contrasted postmodernism with modern liberal theology. He said modernists attempt to make the Bible relevant by “demythologizing” stories of miracles, which in their scientific world view cannot occur.

Postmodernism goes further, he said, viewing modernity itself as just one more account of reality and contending that truth is not an objective reality.

“Postmodernism is more seductive than modernism,” Mohler said April 13 at Together for the Gospel, a biennial conference he and three other preachers started in 2006 to counter popular Christian teaching that they believe adulterates the gospel.

“Most of the people in this room would recognize modern anti-supernaturalism,” Mohler said. “You know liberal theology when it’s labeled liberal theology. But what you have to watch for is liberal theology that isn’t packaged as liberal theology.”

Mohler specifically criticized Brian McLaren’s newest book, A New Kind of Christianity, which he and three Southern Seminary professors previously dissected in an hour-long panel discussion on the campus in Louisville, Ky.

Mohler quoted passages that McLaren, a leader in the “emergent church,” wrote about the morality of God in the Bible.

“But he says in the Bible we find an evolving morality, even of God,” Mohler said.

“He admits that he finds many depictions of God in the Bible to be horrifying to modern morality. He thinks of the Bible ‘moving from less to more mature views of God.’

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