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Forum Blogs / Re: Episcopalians in Free Fall
« on: February 28, 2007, 03:55:15 PM »
Maryland Brian wrote: BTW, I don't think World Alone is the answer either. Way too focused on US Lutheran dynamics. As Mike Breen likes to say, "The post-modern earthquake has already happened and none of the old maps work."
Tim Christ reflects: Eric Swenson, upstream, mentioned Word Alone. The difficulty from where I sit and view life in the Lutheran Church, is that Word Alone is deeply representative of much of the Haugian Pietistic movement (and the upper midwestern perspective of the Church), which has been (and is) a blessing, up to a point, but as expressed by what I've read from Word Alone, it tends to be unduly focused upon the written and oral Word and thus fails to emphasize the sacramental Word sufficiently enough, as such is weaker on the catholicity of the Church.
Tim Christ reflects: Eric Swenson, upstream, mentioned Word Alone. The difficulty from where I sit and view life in the Lutheran Church, is that Word Alone is deeply representative of much of the Haugian Pietistic movement (and the upper midwestern perspective of the Church), which has been (and is) a blessing, up to a point, but as expressed by what I've read from Word Alone, it tends to be unduly focused upon the written and oral Word and thus fails to emphasize the sacramental Word sufficiently enough, as such is weaker on the catholicity of the Church.