Thesis Outline Revisited

As some of you know, my thesis topic has changed from historical research of Christianity during the time of the Revolution and writing of the Constitution to an evaluation of the present Christian response to postmodernity and an agenda for moving forward. I'm workin' away at it, and at the present, the outline will take the following form:

Part One: Postmodernity and Emergent Church - A basic overview of postmodernism and a look at the "Emerging Church," a group of believers who believe, in one way or another, that Christians must embrace postmodernism.

Part Two: Postmodern Idolatry - Some concerns about "Emergent" based on an argument that postmodernism feeds perfectly into a consumer mentality that results, in essence, in a system of idolatry.

Part Three: Root Problems with Postmodernism - this will be a deeper look at the challenges we face as Christians when it comes to postmodernism and argue for a return to classic ecumenical consensus as a path forward for believers (Oden).

Part Four: The Apostles' Creed Applied - I will put part three into practice by formulating a response to postmodernism using the Apostles' Creed (classic ecumenical creed) as an outline.

The paper will be from a Reformed position, but I will be arguing for a more "generous orthodoxy" than most Reformed believers are willing to allow (though perhaps not quite as generous as McLaren's).

I'm still working some of the bugs out, but I'm hoping to pull this all together finally in the next few weeks.