Progressive Christianity

[Woodsprite]

I fear that the author refers to "questioning" as meaning "disassociating from all major Christian teachings, and usually rejecting them, only to accept the basic tenants of Christianity as fact, and ignoring everything else because it seems against the modern interpretation of 'normal' and 'accepted as rational'".

[Isard]

Originally Posted by Woodsprite

I fear that the author refers to "questioning" as meaning "disassociating from all major Christian teachings, and usually rejecting them, only to accept the basic tenants of Christianity as fact, and ignoring everything else because it seems against the modern interpretation of 'normal' and 'accepted as rational'".

That's pretty much how "questioning" ends up.


Times change, doctrine must follow.

[Fosus]

Originally Posted by Woodsprite

I fear that the author refers to "questioning" as meaning "disassociating from all major Christian teachings, and usually rejecting them, only to accept the basic tenants of Christianity as fact, and ignoring everything else[snip]

It seems rather good IMO. Gotta use your brain, not just take things granted.

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by Fosus

It seems rather good IMO. Gotta use your brain, not just take things granted.

Well... yes... but then even the most blindly faithful use their brains. They just use them for different--and often equally relevant--things. Actually, drawing a line through the Bible and devising a consistent philosophy that explains which portions align with your own beliefs and which do not is probably more work than most consummate non-believers undertake to achieve escape velocity from religion.

[Fosus]

Originally Posted by Eywa's Pet

Well... yes... but then even the most blindly faithful use their brains.

Ohh of course. I didn't mean it that way, sorry.

[Banefull]

Originally Posted by Woodsprite

I fear that the author refers to "questioning" as meaning "disassociating from all major Christian teachings, and usually rejecting them, only to accept the basic tenants of Christianity as fact, and ignoring everything else because it seems against the modern interpretation of 'normal' and 'accepted as rational'".

That would depend upon what you would consider to be the spectrum of things that encompasses Christian teaching. There hasn't been a single complete unified doctrine that all Christians adhered to ever. Every early Christian community had its own set of scriptures. In the early days there were various sects including the Marconians, the gnostics, Jewish Christians, Pauline Christians, The Armenian Apastolic Church etc. Then there was the major split between Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox. Then came the protestant reformation in which Lutherans, Calvinists, and Anglican groups formed. These further fragmented and now we have Adventists, Baptists, Methodists, Church of England, Episcopalians, Pentecostalism, etc.

Every single group has its own idea of what constitutes "major Christian teaching." For example one of the hugest differences between Catholicism and most Protestant groups is that Catholicism holds sacred scripture and apostolic tradition in equal weight whereas most protestant groups view only sacred scripture as having the final authority in all matters.