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tWo KingdoMs
Reformed Two Kingdoms
rElEvancE
liberation Theology liberal/Mainline Emerging church Seeker sensitive
blended insights
passive in influencing culture Humble Excellence Church as CounterCulture Common Good active in influencing culture
Distinctive worldview
countErculturalist
transforMationist
ist models are in the bottom half of the diagram nonbelievers can readily understand natural revelabecause they share a lack of faith in common grace tion, and that God is at work in many ways in the world. At the bottom of the spectrum is the belief and a conviction of a radical antithesis between the that the world is a dark and evil place, that Gods world and the values of Gods kingdom. As a result, from Center Church Timothy Keller, p. 231 (Zondervan, natural revelation Excerpted is hard to read, and that Gods by acthey emphasize the need for2012). a strong, prophetic tivity happens in and through the church alone. The horizontal axis represents the spectrum of views on our attitude toward cultural change (Should we be pessimistic or optimistic about cultural change?). On the left end of the spectrum is the belief that
critique of the idols of the culture. The Two Kingdoms and Relevance models are on the top because they are much more positive about finding common ground with nonbelievers in the culture. The Two Kingdoms and Counterculturalist