Hey again. New subject from my last comment.
As I read on Peterson's sense of gnosticism, I kept thinking of all the reasons I'm hearing to leave the PC(USA). Is there not a little "spirituality without the inconvenience ... of sin or morality ... of people who we don't like or who aren't our kind." (p. 62) ???
I keep wondering what broke the dam to start this exit strategy. No one knows how much our polity has really "changed," there weren't a rush of borderline ordinations, no clear cases to point to and say "ah-ha! we knew this would cross an orthodox line!"
Could it possibly be the old familiar reason ... of sin like gnosticism?
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Hey Tracie, et al--I really appreciate what you say here! I agree that our search for perfection (theological purity and personal purity are good things, but we forget so often that we are "dust" and not God, and thus, not perfect) in the church can seem very much like Gnosticism with its "spiritual elitism". I've just posted an article on the Outlook web site--Jack Haberer may try to get in in the magazine itself--in which I use the Hosea story to make a similar point about the churches discussing leaving the denomination.
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