Please read this excerpt from a biography I recently read:

“ 'Perhaps we must abandon the ideas of national or mass churches…It is likely that there lies before us a different epoch in the history of the church, a new epoch in which Christianity will find itself in the situation of the mustard seed, in tiny groups apparently without influence which nevertheless live intensely bearing witness against evil and bringing good into the world. I see a great movement of this type already underway.'

What hope for renewal does [the speaker] see? Not in the revival of an 'ancient and sclerotic system' but in the recognition of the Church as 'something fresh and desirable, something truly grand.'

But only those who have succeeded in 'transcending the experience of modernity' will be able to see this.

[His] vision is of a future when 'modernity' no longer sets the intellectual or spiritual agenda, the framework for conceiving of alternatives (“faith” vs. “reason,” “science” vs. “religion”), but is left behind entirely.

In this sense, [his] vision is a truly radical one: “modernity” and “post-modernity” are no longer concepts on his intellectual screen; “modernity” is already surpassed by the Christian worldview that is emerging out of the depths of the post-conciliar crisis. “We must ever become more aware of the fact that we no longer know what Christianity is…to give an example: how many images within a church no longer mean anything to most people? No one knows any more what they signify. Even concepts which were still familiar a generation ago, like ‘tabernacle,’ have become foreign.”

What is needed in this situation? 'A new curiosity about Christianity, a desire to understand what it really is.' And what is Christianity, really? Not a theology, a collection of ideas, but an event, a fact: the Incarnation and the death of Christ on the cross.

'The essential is not that Christ announced certain ideas – something that he in fact did, of course – but that I become a Christian in the measure to which I believe in this event: God entered the world and acted.' "

Who might be the author of these ideas? Some cutting-edge proponent of postmodern Christianity? Brian McLaren maybe? No, this excerpt is from a book entitled “Let God’s Light Shine Forth” which carries this subtitle: “The Spiritual Vision of Pope Benedict XVI. Yes, the new Pope (formerly Cardinal Ratzinger) is a Christian postmodern! I think this bodes very well for the Catholic Church and I trust that God is using their new leadership to affect lasting positive change.
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