The following is a comment I left on "Jesus Creed"
http://www.patheos.com/community/jesuscreed/2011/03/23/rob-bell-and-c-s-lewis-by-jeff-cook/comment-page-4/#comment-132236
In my Master’s Thesis at Denver Seminary (1985) “The Apologetic of C.S. Lewis as an Art and a Science” I discussed 3 well-documented influences on Lewis: Rationalism, Romanticism, and Nostalgia for the Medieval Worldview. Of these, Rob Bell seems to share only the tendency towards Romanticism. Lewis prophetically spoke against the Modernism of his day as well as anticipating the dangers of Post-modernism. His clear commitment to Platonism and Realism in Ontology and Language respectively identified him as a pre-modern and, by his own admission, a “dinosaur.” To compare him with Rob Bell is Apples and Oranges. It is not doctrinal correctness that commends CSL to Evangelicals, but his clarity and succintcness in communicating the orthodox “faith once delivered to all the saints.” He takes no issue with the Apostle’s Creed and believes that words really mean something. He believes that signs can be accurately read and that symbols “participate in the reality of the things symbolized.” Rob Bell resonates with Post-Moderns by speaking their language. The real question is whether this language and the cultural worldview it has emerged from are capable of comprehending and incarnating the Truth of the “Word made Flesh” or whether PM requires rescue and transformation in order to “come to the knowledge of the Truth.”
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