Why Dialogue with Revisionists is Impossible
March 13th, 2006
by Alice C. Linsley

Christians who profess the historic Faith find it nearly impossible to dialogue with those who hold revisionist views. For some time I thought this was because modernism has eroded the foundations upon which the Faith rests. Empiricism excises the soul from the mind-body-soul question. Relativism poses Christian creedal faith as just another religion among many world religions, and individualism values self-gratification over a relationship with God. These trends erode and threaten to eviscerate the core of true Christian catechisms, but is modernism the real problem?

Were modernist trends the primary cause of ECUSA’s radical revision of Christianity then dialogue would be possible, at least on intellectual or philosophical grounds. That there is no longer thoughtful discussion of issues suggests that the real cause of revisionism isn’t ultimately philosophical, theological or even intellectual. It must be something else.

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