The religions of the day made no demands on believing, behaving, or belonging. It was a culture of political unrest, a world of numerous religious options, a time of moral confusion and poverty. Why go back? Because the Roman culture in which Christianity first emerged is very similar to the culture of today's world. "The concern of this writing is to go back to the earliest convictions of Christian spirituality. From Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Baker: 1999) … Here, I believe, is a faith for our time, a faith that finds in the ancient Christian tradition a power to speak to the postmodern world." … For here is a faith that, like a tapestry, weaves everything in and out of the main thread-Christ. "My argument has been that evangelicals will do well to affirm a Christianity that has a deep kinship with the faith of the early church. Some leaders will insist on preserving the Christian faith in its modern form others will run headlong into the sweeping changes that accommodate Christianity to postmodern forms and a third group will carefully and cautiously seek to interface historic Christian truths in the dawning of a new era. "We now live in a transitional time in which the modern worldview of the Enlightenment is crumbling and a new worldview is beginning to take shape. Christians in a postmodern world will succeed, not by watering down the faith, but by being a countercultural community that invites people to be shaped by the story of Israel and Jesus. Classical Christianity was not an accommodation to paganism but an alternative practice of life. "Classical Christianity was shaped in a pagan and relativistic society much like our own. Webber, this week's Christian History & Biography newsletter contains excerpts from a few of his books and statements from those who knew him or were influenced by him. Most recently, he organized " A Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future" urging evangelicals "to strengthen their witness through a recovery of the faith articulated by the consensus of the ancient Church and its guardians in the traditions of Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, the Protestant Reformation and the Evangelical awakenings."
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Webber revived evangelicals' interest in the early church through his Ancient-Future book series and his many years of teaching at Wheaton College and, more recently, Northern Seminary. … The challenge for us is to return to the Christian tradition." Last week this well-known theologian and early-church advocate died of pancreatic cancer at age 73.
Robert Webber said, "Evangelicals will do well to affirm a Christianity that has a deep kinship with the faith of the early church.
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