Tuesday, June 07, 2005

To playing Martin Luther in Wittenburg...




You can find it all at your Episcopal Church!!

What it is about Episcoheretics and "Theses?" First we had to deal with Spong's 12 Theses and now Mr. Fox has come up with 95. Do these guys really think they're going to go down in history the same way Luther and other reformers did? It seems to me quite arrogant and presumptuous to even call what they're putting out there "theses." I suppose that's technically a correct term, but clearly they mean it in a deeper sense. They see themselves as groundbreaking reformers of a Christianity in danger of dying out for its "fundamentalism (a catch-all term for those who don't agree with them)."

It's quite sad, really. The fact of the matter is that centuries from now the works of these men will be as familiar to Christians as the works of the heresiarchs of ages past are today. Who reads Arius today apart from patristic scholars?

Such energy and emotion spent on tearing down the house than cannot fall in order to put up a house of cards that will inevitably blow away forever. What a pity. And their teaching isn't even cutting edge or original. Same old tired blathering we've been hearing since the 1960s ("we" in a collective sense...of course I didn't hear anything in the 60's because I wasn't born until 1977...).

Usquequo, Domine?

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