#rauschenbusch

[bjarratt]

It has been my conviction ever since reading Rauschenbusch that any religion which professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the social and economic conditions that scar the soul is a spiritually moribund religion only waiting for the day to be buried.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence,” taken from Stride Toward Freedom (1958)

[weirdchristmas]

"Just a cut a fella some slack!" - Walter Rauschenbusch

[azspot]

King took in stride that Rustin, Levison, and Baker had Old Left backgrounds. It was one of God’s mysteries why so many ­Communists and so few white liberals had cared about black Americans. King had become a democratic socialist in seminary, embracing the conviction of Johnson, Barbour, social gospel icon Walter Rauschenbusch, and Boston University ethicist Walter Muelder that political democracy cannot survive without economic democracy. Then he joined a racial justice movement in which he took for granted that former Communists had major roles to play. Rustin and Levison believed that black Americans would never be free as long as large numbers of whites were oppressed by poverty. Capitalism, they said, played different roles in the struggles for racial justice in the North and South. In the North, blacks suffered primarily from the predatory logic of capitalism. In the South, blacks suffered primarily from the tyranny of racial caste, and capitalism was an ally in the struggle against racial tyranny because the capitalist class experienced the demands of racial caste as a needless waste. In the North, fighting for economic justice was intrinsic to the struggle for racial justice; in the South, economic justice was secondary for the time being. King agreed with Rustin and Levison that the Northern and Southern struggles had to be waged differently and that the struggle for economic justice for all Americans was indispensable in the long run.

Gary Dorrien

[ceekbee]

The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real living of life with the feeling of freedom and self-expression. Play is the business of childhood, and its continuation in later years is the prolongation of youth. -Walter Rauschenbusch

https://livinglifefully.com/joy2.htm

[lindajenni]

nov 23

thanksgiving thanks

"in every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." 1 thes 5:18

and now, a list of thanks given by some.

i thank Thee i thank Thee, o Thou whose bounty fills my cup with every blessing meet. i give Thee thanks for every drop — the bitter and the sweet. i praise Thee for the desert road, and for the riverside; for all Thy goodness hath bestowed, and all Thy grace denied. i thank Thee for both smile and frown, and for the gain and loss; i praise Thee for the future crown and for the present cross. i thank Thee for both wings of love which stirred my worldly nest; and for the stormy clouds which drove me, trembling, to Thy breast. i bless Thee for the glad increase and for the waning joy; and for this strange, this settled peace which nothing can destroy — jane crewdson

thankful for His good gifts most gracious and all wise God; before whose face the generations rise and fall; Thou in whom we live, and move, and have our being. we thank thee for all of Thy good and gracious gifts, for life and for health; for food and for raiment; for the beauties of nature and the love of human nature. — martin luther king jr.

thank You, Lord, for food and friends we thank you, Lord, for food and friends, and for all of the joy this holiday lends. it's thanksgiving day and we can see the blessings you've provided our family. thanks to you, Lord, for another good year; when you watch over us, there's nothing to fear. — karl fuchs

thankful for love and mercy Lord, how can we ever thank You enough? You endured more pain, more shame, more sorrow, more grief than we can possibly fathom. help us remember why You gave Your life. because of love. because of mercy. because we desperately need them both. in Jesus' name, amen. – liz curtis higgs

prayer of thanks o, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. we thank thee for health and remember the sick. we thank thee for friends and remember the friendless. we thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. may these remembrances stir us to service, that thy gifts to us may be used for others. amen. — abigail van buren

a prayer for thanksgiving o God, we thank You for this earth, our home; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water, for the everlasting hills and the never-resting winds, for trees and the common grass underfoot. we thank You for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of the summer fields, and taste of the autumn fruits, and rejoice in the feel of the snow, and smell the breath of the spring. grant us a heart wide open to all this beauty, and save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thornbush is aflame with your glory. o God our Creator, Who lives and reigns for ever and ever. — walter rauschenbusch

on thanksgiving day heavenly Father, on thanksgiving day, we bow our hearts to You and pray. we give You thanks for all You've done, especially for the gift of Jesus, Your Son. for beauty in nature, Your glory we see, for joy and health, friends, and family. for daily provision, Your mercy and care, these are the blessings You graciously share. so today we offer this response of praise with a promise to follow You all of our days. — mary fairchild

the time we have together our Father, we give thanks for the time we have together to appreciate each other. we give thanks for Your presence which is shared at our table. we give thanks for Your abundant provisions. we pray your guidance toward paths of righteousness and wisdom. may our conversation be joyful, edifying and encouraging. strengthen us, o God, to share Your good news and to serve where You call us. we pray, humbly, in the name of Jesus, our Savior. amen. — madge p. williams

a prayer of gratitude let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to providence for manifold blessings — let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals — and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world. on that day let us gather in sanctuaries dedicated to worship and in homes blessed by family affection to express our gratitude for the glorious gifts of God; and let us earnestly and humbly pray that He will continue to guide and sustain us in the great unfinished tasks of achieving peace, justice, and understanding among all men and nations and of ending misery and suffering wherever they exist. — president john f. kennedy

a thanksgiving prayer o God, when i have food, help me to remember the hungry. when i have work, help me to remember the jobless. when i have a home, help me to remember those who have no home at all. when i am without pain, help me to remember those who suffer. and remembering, help me to destroy my complacency, bestir my compassion, and be concerned enough to help, by word and deed, those who cry out for what we take for granted. amen. — samuel f. pugh

a prayer for the thanksgiving feast for the laughter of the children, for my own life breath, for the abundance of food on this table, for the ones who prepared this sumptuous feast, for the roof over our heads, the clothes on our backs, for our health, and our wealth of blessings, for this opportunity to celebrate with family and friends, for the freedom to pray these words without fear, in any language, in any faith, in this great country, whose landscape is as vast and beautiful as her inhabitants. thank You, God, for giving us all these. amen. — rabbi naomi levy

a thanks for a union long in coming i have what i consider an "adopted son." one whom i have never met from a place i have never visited. you see, he is one of the many "spiritually" adopted sons God has promised to us barren ones. he is to be wed this week to a long lost love and reunited with the family they bore together. their promiscuous youth seeded a beautiful child which brought with it parental anger and separation. God's grace has kept them both single and prepared for this restoration now taking place. there are no happen-chances with God. Father God, i pray You bless this union that has been too long in coming and keep it by Your grace, in Jesus name! — linda jennings

"and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." col 3:15 and let us not forget the psalms. "enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. be thankful to Him, and bless His name." psa 100:10

and now perhaps, you need to add a thanksgiving of your own!

[quotidiansacred]

Walter Rauschenbusch - Wikipedia

[whohesaysiam]

“The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.”

~ Walter Rauschenbusch

[chvazquez]

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[reidio-silence]

With the exception of John Swinton’s Paper, Ford’s Irish World, and the socialists’ New Yorker Volkszeitung, every paper in the city opposed George. One of the campaign’s major complaints was that “the same centers of power that have seized the reins of government. . . have also grasped the press by the throat.” The campaign accordingly launched its own daily, the Leader, staffed by eager volunteers from the other papers; by mid-October it circulated to forty thousand readers.

Using the elevateds, the candidate whirled around the city addressing labor unions, Irish nationalists, Catholic parish fairs, German Turnverein, and middle-class social reformers. On one typical day, George talked at the opening of a church fair at St. Cecilia’s (106th Street between Third and Lexington), spoke at Waiters Union No. 3 at 40th Street and Third Avenue, addressed a mass meeting of eight thousand at Third and 42nd, marched with the Henry George Bohemian Club, and hopped the el downtown to a tumultuous meeting in Chickering Hall.

Even more striking was the “tailboard” campaign in which speakers rumbled by horsecart from one street throng to another, talking from a makeshift backseat podium. From breakfast to midnight, campaign orators hit the docks, factory yards, elevated stations, churches, and tenement districts. They addressed shoppers by day and, with the aid of torches, carousers at night. Speakers drew on a host of notables, including Father McGlynn, Knights leader Terrence Powderly, editor Patrick Ford, liberal Protestant minister Walter Rauschenbusch, and Columbia professor Daniel DeLeon, but the tail-boarders also included men of purely local renown. Some were shop-floor and neighborhood activists addressing mass audiences for the first time. Others were merchants, lawyers, doctors, or teachers, drawn into unprecedented coalition with organized labor by George’s synthesis of piety and political economy.

As the campaign rolled on, and volunteer poll workers began training to counter the ward bosses’ election day “hirelings,” it was clear to the entire city—and to the nation, and to Europe, where the campaign was covered via cable—that something extraordinary was happening in the streets of New York. There had not been such a challenge to the established order since the Sons of Liberty contested merchant control of the city in colonial days. The Workingmen’s Party of the 1830s had flamed out quickly; the draft riots of 1863 had been terrifying but undisciplined and ultimately repressible. Now the possibility that had always lurked in a democratic polity seemed finally to have materialized: working people would use the polls to advance their class interest.

— Mike Wallace and Edwin G. Burrows, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1998)

[carfleo]

Thanksgiving Prayers

Prayer of Thanksgiving by Walter Rauschenbusch O God, we thank you for this earth, our home;For the wide sky and the blessed sun,For the salt sea and the running water,For the everlasting hillsAnd the never-resting winds,For trees and the common grass underfoot.We thank you for our sensesBy which we hear the songs of birds,And see the splendour of the summer fields,And taste of the autumn…

[sataniccapitalist]

Capitalism urges us to strive first and last for our personal enrichment, and it formerly held out the hope (and still does) that the selfishness of all would create the universal good. … Christianity makes the love of money the root of all evil. Capitalism cultivates the love for its own sake and gives its largest wealth to those who use monopoly for extortion. Thus, two spirits are wrestling for the mastery in modern life, the spirit of Christ and the spirit of Mammon

Walter Rauschenbusch

[beguines]

Over time the remembrance of Jesus' death evolved from the original experience of trauma and scandal to a soteriology of the cross as purposeful and effective action, ordained by God, for the sake of salvation. Theological works like Anselm of Canterbury's Cur Deus Homo reinforced the idea that Jesus' passion and death were a necessary and even loving action. Even protests against Anselm by theologians such as Abelard or Walter Rauschenbusch, writing centuries apart, continued to uphold the redemptive value of Jesus' suffering love. Suffering served as model for Christian love.

Flora A. Keshgegian, Redeeming Memories: A Theology of Healing and Transformation

[arcticdementor]

Woke anti-racism certainly appears to have taken on the trappings of religion. White people have been seen washing the feet of black people and asking for forgiveness, a ritual firmly in line with the Christian tradition. And terms like ‘white guilt’ and ‘white privilege’ are treated much as Original Sin used to be – things for which humanity must forever atone.

One person who has long been exploring the religious fervour of today’s increasingly moralistic politics is the essayist and author Joseph Bottum. Indeed, his 2014 book, An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America, seems almost prophetic. There he argued that the demise of traditional Protestantism in the US has led liberals to transfer their religious beliefs, habits and passions into the political realm, moralising it in the process. Our age of ‘post-Protestantism’, he concludes, has eroded the boundary between the religious and the political, infusing politics with a religious mindset and discourse.

spiked’s US correspondent, Sean Collins, caught up with Bottum, at his home in the Black Hills of South Dakota, to find out what he makes of the contemporary political moment, woke anti-racism and the phenomenon of cancel culture.

Sean Collins: As you note in An Anxious Age, the collapse of Mainline Protestantism (that is, the older, non-evangelical Protestant denominations) in the US is striking. In 1965, more than 50 per cent of Americans belonged to Protestant congregations. Now it is less than 10 per cent. Why, in your view, is this collapse so significant for broader American society and politics?

Joseph Bottum: In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville identified the central current of America as a current of morals and manners. However much rival sects feuded against one another, there was this central current. And it is the Mainline Protestant churches which provided America with those morals and manners. (‘Mainline’ is a term that was created later, but we can apply it retrospectively.)

The Mainline churches helped define American culture in several ways. First of all, the churches were mostly apolitical, which has had a profound effect on American culture. For instance, there’s never been a great American political novel. The average French streetwalker in a novel by Zola knows more about politics than the heroes of the greatest American novels. What is it to be an American? At the highest artistic level, it is to be concerned about the cosmos and the self. Politics is incidental to Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter and Huckleberry Finn. And that’s because Mainline Protestantism rendered politics secondary to what it deems is most important — namely, salvation and the self.

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Collins: Right, so we now live in, as you put it, a post-Protestant US. But, if I understand your thesis correctly, you argue that the beliefs, mindsets and manners that animated earlier Protestantism have not been abandoned, but instead have been projected on to the political realm. A key transition you cite is the Social Gospel movement, which becomes more prominent during the 20th century. Then closer to our time Christianity gets stripped out altogether, and you are just left with social activism. Sin remains a preoccupation, but it has been redefined as a social sin, like bigotry and racism. Have I got that right?

Bottum: Yes. There’s an extraordinary point here. Walter Rauschenbusch [an American theologian and a key figure in the Social Gospel movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries] lists six species of social sin. If you go through the list, they are exactly what radicals are objecting to now: bigotry, the ignorance of the uneducated, power, corruption, militarism and oppression. It lines up so perfectly with today’s agitation.

What we’re seeing now is an amplification of what I wrote about five years ago: an intense spiritual hunger that has no outlet. There’s no way to see people kneeling, or singing ‘Hands up, don’t shoot’, or swaying while they hold up candles, and avoid acknowledging that it’s driven by a spiritual desire. I perceived this when I wrote about Occupy Wall Street, and it’s become even more like this. It is an intense spiritual hunger that is manifesting itself more violently. Because to the post-Protestants, the world is an outrage and we are all sinners.

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Similarly, there is ostracising and shunning. Cancel culture is just the latest and most virulent form of the religious notion of shunning, in which people are chased into further appreciation of their guiltiness. Two years ago, the Nation published a poem about an older panhandler giving advice to a younger one, about how to get people to give you money. The Twittermob went after that poem, on the grounds that the poet was a white man from Minnesota. And the magazine apologised, and the poet apologised for writing the poem. That’s what the shunning is looking for. If you profane, if you’re shunned outside the Temple, the only way back is to become fanatic, to convince people that you understand how guilty you are. And even then I’m not sure there’s any way back.

At the very least, one of the effects of the shunning is to frighten everyone into silence. Its purpose is to get people fired, to put people beyond the pale, to get them out of our sight. This is for a couple reasons. First, it is to ensure we are not infected by this sinfulness. And second, it is a public declaration of our power. It says, look how powerful we are, that we can do this to people.

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We live in just the strangest times. But understanding the historical roots of these radicals as post-Protestant, and understanding the spiritual hunger which has no outlet for them, helps us to explain it. This is what happens when you have a Mainline outlook that is broken loose from all of its prior constraints. These ideas used to be corralled in the churches. If you let an idea like Original Sin – that’s a dangerous and powerful idea – loose from its corral, it goes to a place where it can exist, which is politics. One of the great dangers is that religious ideas are in politics. The line that I use is that, if you believe that your ordinary political opponents are not merely mistaken, but are evil, you have ceased to do politics and begun to do religion.

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Suppose you analyse this class in terms of its members’ answer to the question, ‘How do you know that you are saved?’. In the past, people would say ‘because I believe in Christ’ and the rest of it. But the modern version of this question is, ‘How do you know you are a good person? And how can you have assurance of your goodness?’. Which is Max Weber’s question in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism – and Weber says this anxiety about salvation actually has economic and political consequences. Let’s apply that Weberian analysis and ask what are the consequences of being worried about your salvation, phrased in today’s terms of being worried about being a good person. If it’s all about social ills, then you know you are a good person if you are opposed to those social ills, if you are anti-racist, even if you don’t do anything. You are convinced of your own salvation. You are one of the Elect if you adopt this stance of being opposed to the great sins.

Now, younger people are not going to put up with the hypocrisy of knowing you are a good person but not actually doing anything. And they are starting to be violent. Members of the Elect are much more economically and socially insecure than the elite, but they have the same education, they’ve got the same social markers. In some ways, we are seeing an intra-class warfare between the Elect and the elite.

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Collins: Yes, today’s leaders in cultural institutions and universities seem to lack backbone. They have espoused this politically correct rhetoric for years, but it’s like they didn’t truly believe it or act on it, and now the younger generation are calling them on it.

Bottum: Right, the younger generation are not going to put up with the hypocrisy. That’s part of it. The second part is, when they see the old power figures tremble, they start thinking, why aren’t we in the positions of power? Then class elements, elitism, start to creep back in. But the original impulse came from seeing leaders like college presidents being hypocrites. They were just mouthing what they thought was just the latest line of the old liberal consensus. What they didn’t fully intuit is that the old liberal consensus was completely gone, and the new line had become something very radical. If today you were to put forward any of the shibboleths of high liberalism of the 1950s, you would be denounced as a terrible conservative.

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Collins: I’ve also noticed a tendency to avoid detailed analysis of economic and social conditions, or concrete policy reforms. Instead, the issue of race after George Floyd is a simple moral denunciation, or a vague reference to ‘systemic racism’. You hear ‘Why do I have to keep explaining this?’, ‘I’m so exhausted’, and so on, as if the issue was beyond debate.

Bottum: Right. But also it’s defining the Church. It’s a way of saying you either have this feeling or you don’t. And if you don’t, you’re evil, and if you do, you’re good. Christian theology, and Christian spiritual practice, has dealt with this for millennia. This is the distinction Calvin would make between justification and sanctification. The idea here is that we no longer need to argue it, because any argument of it is engaging with people beyond the pale. They are outside the Church, they are the profane. They are just wrong. What are they wrong about? They are wrong in the central feeling of moral goodness. This is the attempt to get others to shut up.

We are living in the age of the ad hominem. The fundamental way to answer a claim is to say something about the person who said it. Whether it’s a tu quoque, or an abusive ad hominem, or poisoning the well – the ad hominem is a whole genus of different species of fallacy. How do we know others are wrong? They are wrong because some bad people have said it too. Bari Weiss [the former New York Times op-ed editor] must be wrong [about the illiberal environment at the Times], because Ted Cruz forwarded her tweet. That’s a wonderful ad hominem – guilt by association. It’s not about the content of what is said, it’s about the people who said it.

Why should Trader Joe’s give in, and say how stupid and guilty it was for not realising the error of its ways? Because otherwise its managers and staff are not good people. It doesn’t matter if there is any objective truth to it. The only thing that matters is where you stand. Are you one of us, or are you one of them?

If I can show that you are one of them, then your only response is to apologise abjectly, even though you didn’t know. You didn’t know that touching your middle finger to your thumb is making a white power symbol. It doesn’t matter whether you knew that. A Hispanic driver for a power company in California got fired because his hand was hanging out the window, with his finger touching his thumb. A women photographed it and declared it was the white power symbol, and the power company fired him. It’s really astonishing.

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It’s not enough to be one of the good guys, to be on the right side. You have to be bulletproof against any charge. You have to be constantly abject. You have to agree with your condemners, or you’re evil. The [French philosopher] Merleau-Ponty wrote about this in terms of the Moscow showtrials – about the psychological process by which people can come to confess their own guilt about something that, at some level, they know they are not guilty of. So the psychological aspect is interesting. But this mode of permanent abject contrition is best understood in its religious modes. This is what you get when the Church of Christ becomes the Church without Christ, and these old Protestant concerns enter the public square, enter politics, divorced from and freed from their old constraints. To paraphrase GK Chesterton, the world is full of Christian ideas gone mad.

Collins: Why does the Elect have to go as far as to ‘cancel’? You could imagine a movement promulgating certain moral ideas in society, and hoping to win converts. Such a movement wouldn’t necessarily feel the need to purge others, who didn’t agree with them, from their workplaces and colleges. What drives the Elect to go to those lengths?

Bottum: Look, you wouldn’t want a Satan worshipper turning up at your Church on a Sunday. You would drive them out. But of course these people don’t live in churches any more. This is what happens when those old ideas break loose and become modes of behaviour in politics. They don’t want these people in their church, but their church is politics. Their congregation is Twitter. They want these people not to exist, they want them banished. There are the power reasons for this: look at how powerful I am; I am a 17-year-old kid, and I had a major US corporation kow-towing to me. But there’s also this kind of religious sense that we can’t let sinners into the church. That’s what shunning was for, to get people to confess their sins, to realise their sinfulness. That’s what we’re doing now – it’s just that the church, the locus of faith, is no longer your congregation on Sunday. It’s public life.

This demand that politics somehow solve everything is an apocalyptic, religious sense of politics. For hundreds of years American jurisprudence has worried about the impact of religion on politics. What’s really extraordinary is that it is finally happening – politics is becoming religionised – but it’s being done in the name of anti-religion.

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

  List of Heresies                                                

Adoptionism The belief Jesus is not eternally God but became God sometime after His birth

Antinomianism The belief that Christians are not bound by God’s law and are free to sin as they please; That Jesus' rescues from the guilt of sin but not its power..

Anti-Paulism The belief that the Apostle Paul was a heretic and that the books he wrote are not a part of Biblical Canon

Arianism The belief that Jesus and the Holy Spirit were lesser, created beings and  not persons of the Godhead .

Christian Deism The belief that God does not intervene in or interact with the world.

Docetism - The belief that Jesus was divine but only seemed to be human.

Donatism - The belief that the efficacy of the sacraments depends on character of the minister.

Dual Covenant Theology The belief that Jews can still be saved without believing in Jesus

Eutychianism - The belief that Jesus' finite human nature is swallowed up in His infinite divine nature.

Gay Theology - The belief that homosexuality is not a sin. Consequently, the full gospel of rescue from sin's tyranny is witheld from those who self-identify as "gay"

Gnosticism - Holds to a radical dualism of good and evil and believes secret knowledge is necessary for salvation. This contrasts sharply with Christianity which affirms the good of creation. Gnostics think matter is evil.

Inclusivism The belief that faith is not necessary for salvation and that God’s mercy is so wide that it embraces all non-Christian peoples on the earth

Kenosis The belief that Jesus ceased to be divine while on Earth

Kinism The belief that people are only to consort, worship, and marry people of their same race.  

Legalism - Trusting in one's own righteousness (or anything) aside from Jesus to win acceptance with God

Liberalism The belief that Scripture is not inerrant or infallible (Not to be confused with the political system of the same name)

Limited Theism The belief that God’s powers are or can be limited and He is not All-Powerful

Marcionism - The belief that the God of the O.T. is evil and the God of the N.T. is good. Affirms 11 books in the Canon

Macedonianism The belief that God the Holy Spirit is not a member of the Godhead but merely a creation of God.

Manichaeism The belief that good and evil are both equally powerful in ability and/or authority.

Modalism The belief that the members of the Trinity are not three distinct persons but three different aspects of the same person.

Monarchianism - The belief that God is one person.

Monophysitism - The belief that Jesus had only one nature: divine.

Montanism The belief that the Bible is either insufficient or incomplete, and that new revelation from God is being regularly given.

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism - the new American Religion.

Neo-Orthodoxy The belief that the Bible is not the Inspired Word of God unless it is being read by a believer.

Neoplatonism The belief that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited

Nestorianism - The belief that Jesus was two persons.

Open Theism The belief that God is not omniscient and doesn’t know the future.

Papal Primacy The belief that the Pope is the head of the Church while it is on Earth as well as the vicar of Christ.

Partialism The belief that each member of the Trinity is 1/3 of God rather than being fully God.

Pelagianism The belief that human nature is untainted by the Fall of Man and is not corrupted with Original Sin.

Pluralism The belief that two or more religions can be true at one time.

Positive Thinking The belief that your thoughts have the God-like ability to create your reality.

Prosperity Gospel The belief that the promises of the Gospel include good physical health and Earthly wealth.

Progressive Christianity - a post-modern theological approach, a revisionist view of the Scriptures, with a strong focus on social justice and an over-emphasis on politics. Rooted in Liberal Christianity of the modern-era.

Rauschenbuschism (the social gospel) The belief that the main purpose of the Gospel is to be the cure for social issues rather than the forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with God.

Roman Catholicism - Roman Catholicism violates scripture in its doctrine of salvation, its claims about its authority, its apostolic succession, its priesthood, and its claim to have the sole right to interpret Scripture.

Semi-Pelagianism - The belief that man and God cooperate to achieve man's salvation.(with man initiating)

Socinianism - A Denial of the Trinity. The belief that Jesus is a deified man

Subordinationism - The belief that the Son is lesser than the Father in essence and or attributes.

Trinitarian Heresies Here is list of major heresies which deny the biblical teaching on the Trinity

Tritheism The belief that the Godhead is actually three separate gods

Universalism The belief that everyone will go to Heaven

Word of Faith The belief that human words have the God-like power to create or destroy.

Works Righteousness The belief that we are saved by works or a combination of faith and works rather than by faith alone

[coolksaposts]

List of Heresies

List of Heresies

Adoptionism The belief Jesus is not eternally God but became God sometime after His birth

Antinomianism The belief that Christians are not bound by God’s law and are free to sin as they please; That Jesus' rescues from the guilt of sin but not its power..

Anti-Paulism The belief that the Apostle Paul was a heretic and that the books he wrote are not a part of Biblical Canon

Arianism The belief that Jesus and the Holy Spirit were lesser, created beings and  not persons of the Godhead .

Christian Deism The belief that God does not intervene in or interact with the world.

Docetism - The belief that Jesus was divine but only seemed to be human.

Donatism - The belief that the efficacy of the sacraments depends on character of the minister.

Dual Covenant Theology The belief that Jews can still be saved without believing in Jesus

Eutychianism - The belief that Jesus' finite human nature is swallowed up in His infinite divine nature.

Gay Theology - The belief that homosexuality is not a sin. Consequently, the full gospel of rescue from sin's tyranny is witheld from those who self-identify as "gay"

Gnosticism - Holds to a radical dualism of good and evil and believes secret knowledge is necessary for salvation. This contrasts sharply with Christianity which affirms the good of creation. Gnostics think matter is evil.

Inclusivism The belief that faith is not necessary for salvation and that God’s mercy is so wide that it embraces all non-Christian peoples on the earth

Kenosis The belief that Jesus ceased to be divine while on Earth

Kinism The belief that people are only to consort, worship, and marry people of their same race.  

Legalism - Trusting in one's own righteousness (or anything) aside from Jesus to win acceptance with God

Liberalism The belief that Scripture is not inerrant or infallible (Not to be confused with the political system of the same name)

Limited Theism The belief that God’s powers are or can be limited and He is not All-Powerful

Marcionism - The belief that the God of the O.T. is evil and the God of the N.T. is good. Affirms 11 books in the Canon

Macedonianism The belief that God the Holy Spirit is not a member of the Godhead but merely a creation of God.

Manichaeism The belief that good and evil are both equally powerful in ability and/or authority.

Modalism The belief that the members of the Trinity are not three distinct persons but three different aspects of the same person.

Monarchianism - The belief that God is one person.

Monophysitism - The belief that Jesus had only one nature: divine.

Montanism The belief that the Bible is either insufficient or incomplete, and that new revelation from God is being regularly given.

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism - the new American Religion.

Neo-Orthodoxy The belief that the Bible is not the Inspired Word of God unless it is being read by a believer.

Neoplatonism The belief that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited

Nestorianism - The belief that Jesus was two persons.

Open Theism The belief that God is not omniscient and doesn’t know the future.

Papal Primacy The belief that the Pope is the head of the Church while it is on Earth as well as the vicar of Christ.

Partialism The belief that each member of the Trinity is 1/3 of God rather than being fully God.

Pelagianism The belief that human nature is untainted by the Fall of Man and is not corrupted with Original Sin.

Pluralism The belief that two or more religions can be true at one time.

Positive Thinking The belief that your thoughts have the God-like ability to create your reality.

Prosperity Gospel The belief that the promises of the Gospel include good physical health and Earthly wealth.

Progressive Christianity - a post-modern theological approach, a revisionist view of the Scriptures, with a strong focus on social justice and an over-emphasis on politics. Rooted in Liberal Christianity of the modern-era.

Rauschenbuschism (the social gospel) The belief that the main purpose of the Gospel is to be the cure for social issues rather than the forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with God.

Roman Catholicism - Roman Catholicism violates scripture in its doctrine of salvation, its claims about its authority, its apostolic succession, its priesthood, and its claim to have the sole right to interpret Scripture.

Semi-Pelagianism - The belief that man and God cooperate to achieve man's salvation.(with man initiating)

Socinianism - A Denial of the Trinity. The belief that Jesus is a deified man

Subordinationism - The belief that the Son is lesser than the Father in essence and or attributes.

Trinitarian Heresies Here is list of major heresies which deny the biblical teaching on the Trinity

Tritheism The belief that the Godhead is actually three separate gods

Universalism The belief that everyone will go to Heaven

Word of Faith The belief that human words have the God-like power to create or destroy.

Works Righteousness The belief that we are saved by works or a combination of faith and works rather than by faith alone

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Related: Bad Theology - Cults and Heresy

Tue, 05/21/2019 - 18:05 -- john_hendryx

[wellenoughaboutme]

I min sjæls slot*

I min sjæls slot er der en nødindgang. Når jeg går gennem, er jeg i Guds nærvær En stille tanke, tonen fra en sang - og jeg finder mig selv der, hvor Gud er. Det er et faktum.

Menneskeverdenen er lavet af støj og plader holdt nede i en rille. Katedraler af data. Støv. Og røg! Men hos Gud er der storslået stille.

Og i stilheden er en melodi. Sød, som når man er helt tilfreds og mæt, af kærlighed selv, af tyst eufori. Varm som en flamme, som holder dig tæt.

Og når jeg bevæger mig ind i Gud Er alt liv gennemvædet af mening. Jeg ved det. Uden at spørge Ham ud. Jeg ved det med hver åres forgrening.

Det er her, at mine længsler mødes, og jeg finder svar på hjertets vildhed. Feber forsvinder og kinder rødes. Her i mødet. I Guds store stilhed.

Mine problemer er småsten på vejen. Som de evige bjerge er glæden. Sådan er det idet jeg krydser stregen i bøn. Fra tid ind i evigheden.

Når jeg finder mig i Guds bevidsthed er mine medmennesker ikke væk eller glemt - men så mærkeligt nærved. Og vi bor her. Vi er ikke på træk.

Dem, som jeg elsker, som hører mig til har en helt særlig og mystisk værdi. I øjnene et varmt legende spil. De har et lys, som gløder indeni.

Sådan er det når min sjæl banker på Og går ind i Gudsnærværets have. Små ting bliver store. Store ting bliver små. Og gennemblødt med højhed er det lave.

Det nære er fjernt. Fremtiden er nær. Hos Gud er revolutionens substans Himmel kysser jord. Gudsriget er her. Og denne muld er min sjæls Fædrelands. *I den fantastiske bog, Life Without Lack af Dallas Willard er der på side 211-213 gengivet et smukt digt af Walter Rauschenbusch. Det er dette digt, jeg her har prøvet at oversætte.