Thursday, November 02, 2006

A Unitarian Presiding Bishop?

I don't usually expect an NPR interviewer to ask especially astute questions, but notice this exchange from the interview posted below:

Robin Young, NPR interviewer: TIME Magazine asked you an interesting question, we thought, "Is belief in Jesus the only way to get to heaven?" And your answer, equally interesting, you said "We who practice the Christian tradition understand him as our vehicle to the divine. But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box." And I read that and I said "What are you: a Unitarian?!?" [laughs] What are you-- that is another concern for people, because, they say Scripture says that Jesus says he was The Light and The Way and the only way to God the Father.

Katherine Jefforts Schori: Christians understand that Jesus is the route to God. Umm-- that is not to say that Muslims, or Sikhs, or Jains, come to God in a radically different way. They come to God through... human experience... through human experience of the divine. Christians talk about that in terms of Jesus.



Karen B. over at Stand Firm in Faith copied this from a definition of Unitarianism from Wikipedia:

"Both Unitarianism and Universalism trace their roots to Christian Protestantism. Many UUs appreciate and value aspects of Christian and Jewish spirituality, but the extent to which the elements of any particular faith tradition are incorporated into one’s personal spiritual practices is a matter of personal choice in keeping with UU’s creedless, non-dogmatic approach to spirituality and faith development."

Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, is it a Unitarian Presiding Bishop?

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