Deconstruction: The New Gnosticism

   Deconstructivism is a genre of postmodern architecture that was first popularized in the 1980s. It is classified by buildings or sculptures that appear to be fragmented. Structures built in this style have an absence of symmetry, lack continuity, and have an obvious absence of harmony. A cursory glance at such buildings may give the impression that the building is about to topple over. Deconstruction has also long been associated with philosophy and literary theory and criticism. 

   Sadly, it is now being applied to a growing movement of once-professing born again believers. Alisa Childers, author of “Another Gospel?” defines deconstruction as, “the process through everything you’ve ever believed about God and Jesus — the Bible, Christianity, all of the doctrines, all of the history — everything you thought about it, and you’re sort of rethinking everything.”

   Don’t get me wrong — as long as the Church is in the hands of sinners, there will always be a place to ask difficult questions about the origins of our theology and religious traditions. Without asking hard questions, spiritual entropy will take over, and we will only spiral downward into deeper and deeper pits of apostacy, errancy, and false teaching. Asking questions is not the problem — but glomming onto wrong answers and heralding them as dogma is. 


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