[Dialogue] The USofA is a Nation of Christian Heritics

[frank bremner]

I remember a book by Peter Berger, published in the late 70s, called The Heretical Imperative.  He noted that the word "heresy" comes from a Greek word meaning "choice".  He also noted that people these days had a political preference, a sexual preference, etc.  Likewise people were choosing their own systems of belief, symbols, etc. I am reminded of this book whenever the Australian Catholic-Lutheran Dialogue, based in Adelaide and contributing greatly to its global equivalent, publishes documents with phrases such as "Catholics believe ..... " and "Lutherans believe .....".  Catholics do?   Lutherans do?  You would find it difficult to find informed and well-articulated belief from most adherents - who tend to think "theology" belongs to "the experts".  Mind you, some of "the experts" want to "own" the area of "theology".  The powers, and that's probably the right word, of orthodoxy probably think people obediently believe in a certain way, but I'm not so sure.  And "obedience" comes from a Latin word "obediens" = "I listen" - it's not necessarily slavishly following an organisational position. Yet words like "heresy" may still be part of a useful conversation, as in describing the four "heresies" listed below.  Do they reflect how life actually is (remember "twilly": TWLI) or something else? In what way do Kaz, Fox, Spong and DHL reflect heresies against particular orthodoxies, and in what way do they exhibit worked-through choices? Best wishes Frank Bremner
 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:13:02 -0400
From: dshahn31 at gmail.com
To: dialogue at wedgeblade.net
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] The USofA is a Nation of Christian Heritics

I imagine quite a few of my church associates would call me a heretic, and maybe they are right.
Doris Hahn



On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:41 AM,  <LAURELCG at aol.com> wrote:






I find wisdom in many Christian heretics, specifically Nikos 
Kazantzakis, D.H. Lawrence and Matthew Fox.
 
Jann
 

In a message dated 4/17/2012 8:37:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
stevehar11201 at gmail.com writes:
>From the 
  consensus of  ML King to..

4 divisive  Christian heresies 
  which  flourish now:
-the Da Vinci Code [trendy, not RS1]
-the 
  Prosperity Gospel [get rich=get god]
-Eat Pray Love  [blessing the 
  Internal Impulses]
-Glen Beck [political saviors ]

NPR audio ink: 
  Bad Religion, 7 
  minutes
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/14/150437554/heretics-the-crisis-of-american-christianity


Do 
  you agree?
What would Bishop Spong 
  say?
--
Steve

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