'Where there is no vision the people perish.' Why there are no TEC heresy trials
'Where there is no vision the people perish.' Why there are no heresy trials in The Episcopal Church
Episcopal Bishops line up on Rites for blessing same sex marriage
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
June 15, 2012
"Western civilization at the present day is passing through a crisis which is essentially different from anything that has been previously experienced. Other societies in the past have changed their social institutions or their religious beliefs under the influence of external forces or the slow development of internal growth. But none, like our own, has ever consciously faced the prospect of a fundamental alteration of the beliefs and institutions on which the whole fabric of social life rests ... Civilization is being uprooted from its foundations in nature and tradition and is being reconstituted in a new organization which is as artificial and mechanical as a modern factory." Thus wrote Christopher Dawson in Enquiries into Religion and Culture.
Ross Douthat in his book Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics says the biggest threat facing America is not a faltering economy or a spate of books by famed atheists. Rather, the country meets new challenges due to the decline of traditional Christianity.
One of the leading culprits in that decline is The Episcopal Church, once America's premier denomination that numbers amongst its devoted supporters 11 US presidents, untold senators and leading intellectual thinkers from the great universities of the day.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Episcopal Bishops line up on Rites for blessing same sex marriage
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
June 15, 2012
"Western civilization at the present day is passing through a crisis which is essentially different from anything that has been previously experienced. Other societies in the past have changed their social institutions or their religious beliefs under the influence of external forces or the slow development of internal growth. But none, like our own, has ever consciously faced the prospect of a fundamental alteration of the beliefs and institutions on which the whole fabric of social life rests ... Civilization is being uprooted from its foundations in nature and tradition and is being reconstituted in a new organization which is as artificial and mechanical as a modern factory." Thus wrote Christopher Dawson in Enquiries into Religion and Culture.
Ross Douthat in his book Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics says the biggest threat facing America is not a faltering economy or a spate of books by famed atheists. Rather, the country meets new challenges due to the decline of traditional Christianity.
One of the leading culprits in that decline is The Episcopal Church, once America's premier denomination that numbers amongst its devoted supporters 11 US presidents, untold senators and leading intellectual thinkers from the great universities of the day.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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