The Necessity of Heresy Part 1

This presentation is the introduction to a three-part series giving a preview of my forthcoming book, The Necessity of Heresy, which itself is the introductory volume to a three-part series also including The Fundamental Shift in Evangelicalism and The Unraveling of the Reformation. This initial preview video introduces the contemporary situation in evangelicalism in which much of the evangelical church is apostate due to a fundamental shift in the very nature of evangelicalism from orthodoxy to heresy. The major theological-philosophical reason for the shift is abandonment of the biblical premodern worldview in favor of the antibiblical modern and postmodern worldviews. Since the postmodern worldview results in a hermeneutic that is fundamentally unable to interpret Scripture and postmoderns are revising Christian doctrine into positions contradictory to the Bible and the history of interpretation, then orthodoxy and heresy are necessary to maintain salvation and prevent the redefinition of Christianity out of existence. The Necessity of Heresy is a two-part book and part 1 surveys the definitions of and relationship between orthodoxy and heresy through the three worldviews of premodernity, modernity, and postmodernity. This first lecture previews the introduction and the first part of the survey of premodernity by summarizing the biblical evidence regarding the definitions of and relationship between orthodoxy and heresy in premodernity.