a great awakening?
By Diogenes (articles ) | March 21, 2004 6:12 AM
The asymmetry noted below among the United Methodists can in fact be detected in all the main anglophone Christian communities: an overwhelming majority of traditional layfolk is at odds with a highly ideologized clerical bureaucracy spiritually indistinguishable from Cher. The irony is that many traditional Christians from formally separated bodies are closer to one another in every doctrinal respect than they are to their own national leadership.
Perhaps before long it will be opportune (and technically feasible) to summon a cyber-council that will replace reformation with realignment. Picture it this way. You get all North American Christians simultaneously on-line. You agree to pool all church property and assets. Then the webmaster posts consecutively the canons of the ecumenical councils, starting with Nicaea and working forward. For each canon a vote is taken: "I believe in one God. All in favor, click AYE. All opposed, NAY." Then the Nays who identify themselves at each juncture are allowed to hive off and form their own (doctrinally unified) churchlet, taking with them a pro rata share of church buildings, Disney stock, soiled amices, etc.
The fact of the matter is that the ecclesial and doctrinal controversies by which the post-1500 denominations defined themselves no longer correspond to the issues that vex Christians today. At our cyber-realignment, conventional "church affiliation" will have little or no predictive power in anticipating the choices made by participants. Most of the elite ecclesiocrats
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Posted by: -
Mar. 22, 2004 8:32 AM ET USA
I do worship in the equivalent of a couple of mobile homes--a converted horse barn. Ironically, this church is more universal, in the sense of being truly Catholic and 100% aligned with the Magisterium, than several cathedrals I've visited. You are absolutely correct, Diogenes, that it is marvelously edifying to pray the liturgy with those who really believe (and try to practice) every single doctrine of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic.
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Posted by: -
Mar. 21, 2004 2:31 PM ET USA
Bravo ! More ! Keep it up !
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Posted by: John J Plick -
Mar. 21, 2004 8:38 AM ET USA
I saw "The Passion..." again, Diogenes. And as far as I could see, the crucifixion didn't occur in virtual reality. I don't think the "cyber-church" will work.
