CT v CT again: Driscoll alleges that Christian Theology (which ones?) err by defining spiritual warfare as personal rather than systemic (which means he's never read Caird, Berkhof, Wink or Stringfellow)

There were moments in reading Mark Driscoll’s new e-book where I wondered if he had suddenly taken the side of Greg Boyd (sarcasm alert): 

Christian Theology vs. Critical Theory

© 2021 by Mark Driscoll

ISBN: 978-1-7374103-7-9 (Paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-7374103-8-6 (E-book)

Page 20

 

The point is that unified unbelievers seeking to make Heaven on earth without God are more powerful than divided believers. Jesus said that a house divided cannot stand up but will fall. Knowing this, the Critic behind Critical Theory, the same spirit that was at work in Babel (also known as Babylon), is seeking to divide believers and unify unbelievers to dismantle systems and institutions and redistribute wealth and power to build their version of Heaven on earth without God. Simply stated, this is a counterfeit of God’s Kingdom ruled by King Jesus - our kingdom ruled by us.

 

Unified unbelievers seeking to make Heaven on earth without God are more powerful than divided believers? On the basis of what?  Driscoll went on to make another proposal that struck me as confident but baffling:

 

CT v CT continued: Mark Driscoll calls CRT a harmful religious movement (John McWorther did that in 2015) and says it's Marxist as if no Marxists have been critical of BLM or contemporary anti-racism as an alternative to real leftist policies

Christian Theology vs. Critical Theory

© 2021 by Mark Driscoll

ISBN: 978-1-7374103-7-9 (Paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-7374103-8-6 (E-book)

 

Pages 25-26

Phase 4 – The Cult of Wokeism as Secular Religion & BLM

 

Around the 2010’s the few hundred-year-old term “social justice” was picked up to serve as an overarching category to describe hidden biases and systematic errors across most every academic discipline. The result was that social justice “scholarship” pulled all disciplines under Critical Theory making it the leading counterfeit metanarrative to the gospel of Jesus Christ in the Western world.

 

Underlying Critical Theory is social Marxism. Economic Marxism based upon atheism has so fully proven to promise Heaven but only deliver hell wherever it has been imposed, that it is an unsellable option to most anyone who has enough life to fog a mirror. Examples include the former Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Cuba and elsewhere where the body count, killed by their own government in the name of cultural progress, stacked up to nearly 100 million citizens during the 20th century alone. Cultural Marxism has the same goals as economic Marxism but, rather than kicking in the front door to rob a home, it picks the lock and sneaks in the back door to accomplish the same task of redistributing wealth and power, when it actually only redistributes poverty and powerlessness. All of this is done in the name of justice, which is appealing to the Christian, since you will find that same word in the Bible, albeit with a different meaning. Just like the cults, note that words are used from the Bible and completely redefined so that the meaning is changed. Yes, the father of lies has a thesaurus and PR firm. The subtle shift from economic to cultural Marxism was moving the focus from capitalists and workers to race, class, and gender categories of oppressors, and the oppressed needing violent revolution in the name of justice, and the redistribution of power and wealth. It goes by many names, but you should pay attention when you hear things like “equity” instead of equality, which is something altogether different, “justice” or “social justice”, along with appeals to “inclusion” which has little room for heterosexual Christianity, “diversity” and “tolerance” which are not diverse or tolerant enough to include Bible thumpers, and “culturally responsive teaching” which are codewords for the intolerista.

 

You'd think Mark Driscoll has never heard of John McWhorter ... 

Remember how Mark Driscoll tweeted that you could download his ebook Christian Theology vs Critical Theory for free? Well, now you can buy it at Amazon in Kindle format (UPDATE: one-day-only deal, apparently)

https://twitter.com/PastorMark/status/1458512298910306320

Download "Christian theology VS Critical Theory" for just $1 on Amazon for Kindle TODAY! Party popper ​

​https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?

asin=B09LDD2P51&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_QS7GCJKC9ZVF2RB048V7

11:10 AM · Nov 10, 2021·Sked Social

But this pinned tweet says you can download the book for FREE at realfaith.com/ct

https://twitter.com/PastorMark/status/1445835832837824521

“Christian Theology VS Critical Theory” available for FREE DOWNLOAD HERE: http://realfaith.com/ct

So now you can buy what previously was being offered for free?  Who could say `no' to that deal, eh?  I don't advise anyone actually buy the thing but if someone else reads it perhaps confirm whether Driscoll has added a footnote acknowledging that he used information provided by Stephen Eric Bronner.

https://wenatcheethehatchet.blogspot.com/2021/10/mark-driscolls-christian-theology-vs.html

It's for your own benefit the link in Driscoll's tweet doesn't even seem to work.  I've read Christian Theology vs Critical Theory cover to cover and it's unfortunately an incompetent grab bag of dog whistles and rants that won't give you any idea what critical theory is, let alone critical race theory and if you really want to read a book that just came out that is a coherent if perhaps disagreeable take on contemporary antiracism as religious zealotry skip Mark Driscoll and read John McWhorter's Woke  Racism.  Driscoll never actually even answers the implicit question he uses to steer his readers--if everything that God creates Satan counterfeits then what are critical theory and critical race theory actually counterfeiting?  He never actually answers that question.

UPDATE 11-11-2021

Looks like the following tweet

https://twitter.com/PastorMark/status/1458512298910306320

was a that day only thing

if you try to find it today ... expect the following

"Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else."

the following is still available

https://twitter.com/PastorMark/status/1445835832837824521

I'm hard-pressed to show how Driscoll could be considered competent to address either CRT or CT.