GOD vs BAAL
GOD vs BAAL
By Dalton White
Special to virtueonline
www.virtueonline.org
April 19, 2012
Episcopal Bishops have a long tradition authoring provocative books; but the current Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church has produced one of epic proportions. The Heartbeat of God by Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori offers a most remarkable, if not a particularly Christian view of life, and the relationship between humans and God.
Life is the sole provenance of our Creator. What it is, how it is and from whence it comes and to where it goes is the proper subject of theology. But the historic orthodox theological assumption has been that the begetting of life, the sustaining of life, and the ending of life are matters of transcendent importance.
They are actions that impinge on the realm of holiness and are therefore, to be treated with awe, reverence and restraint. Any effort to explain life in modern terms; to redefine this inherently unequal relationship between those who dwell in the realm of the finite here and now; and the Divine and Eternal Creator, in order to produce a parity between the two produces a morality based on expediency and is bereft of any rational foundation.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Dalton White
Special to virtueonline
www.virtueonline.org
April 19, 2012
Episcopal Bishops have a long tradition authoring provocative books; but the current Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church has produced one of epic proportions. The Heartbeat of God by Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori offers a most remarkable, if not a particularly Christian view of life, and the relationship between humans and God.
Life is the sole provenance of our Creator. What it is, how it is and from whence it comes and to where it goes is the proper subject of theology. But the historic orthodox theological assumption has been that the begetting of life, the sustaining of life, and the ending of life are matters of transcendent importance.
They are actions that impinge on the realm of holiness and are therefore, to be treated with awe, reverence and restraint. Any effort to explain life in modern terms; to redefine this inherently unequal relationship between those who dwell in the realm of the finite here and now; and the Divine and Eternal Creator, in order to produce a parity between the two produces a morality based on expediency and is bereft of any rational foundation.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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