The future of Christianity

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wil said:
A discussion with the Center of Action and Contemplation.

So far in quite interesting...a protestant preacher of 24 years...and a fellow that was in Monastery with Thomas Merton...

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The Future of Christianity | August 23 | Brian McLaren, Barbara Holmes, James Finley, & Richard Rohr

The Future of Christianity: A Virtual Summit will stream LIVE on Tuesday, August 23 from 10:30am–12:30pm PT (1:30–3:30pm ET; 5:30–7:30pm GMT) with Brian McLa...
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I'll have to try to remember to listen to this when I make dinner tonight.
 
I've dipped in ... and I've dipped into the theology of the more Catholic voices.

Personally, from what I gather, that view of the future would be one of great sorrow for me, it would be the final triumph of the world over the spirit ... I would weep for all that we would lose in the process, but that's not to say I do not see it heading that way.

For me, it's an empty shell, a doctrine of anodyne aphorisms, the worst kind of opiate.
 
It is like when a magician shows you how the tricks are done....

Many folks like the mystery...

Personal responsibility for our lives is not a popular notion.
 
wil said:
It is like when a magician shows you how the tricks are done....
Many folks like the mystery...
Personal responsibility for our lives is not a popular notion.
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No, it's not like that at all ...
 
This, from David, is something else.

I sorrow for American Orthodoxy, and wonder has American Catholicism gone the same way?

And, from left-field, his comment on hell at 8:34

"Hell is the ever-diminishing residue of the nothingness from which we came to which we cannot return."
 
Thomas said:
This, from David, is something else.

I sorrow for American Orthodoxy, and wonder has American Catholicism gone the same way?

And, from left-field, his comment on hell at 8:34

"Hell is the ever-diminishing residue of the nothingness from which we came to which we cannot return."
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I'm not really sure what he's getting at with any of this. He seems oblique, however that may be just that this is a segment of something larger.
It sounds like he is decrying the intellectual state of American Orthodoxy and feels it is not well intellectually grounded and not really Orthodoxy, that it is just American Evangelicalism in a different form. The question about hell seems to have been unexpected and I don't know what he means by any of it.
 
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TheLightWithin said:
It sounds like he is decrying the intellectual state of American Orthodoxy and feels it is not well intellectually grounded and not really Orthodoxy, that it is just American Evangelicalism in a different form.
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Yes.
TheLightWithin said:
The question about hell seems to have been unexpected and I don't know what he means by any of it.
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I think it was tagged on. I think Wil might enjoy it.
 
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