My Theological Worldview: Roman Catholic and Weslyan
 | You scored as Roman Catholic. You are Roman Catholic. Church tradition and ecclesial authority are hugely important, and the most important part of worship for you is mass. As the Mother of God, Mary is important in your theology, and as the communion of saints includes the living and the dead, you can also ask the saints to intercede for you.
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I'd say that sums it up quite well, Roman Catholic and Wesleyan, a good blend for an someone like myself raised Pentecostal, converted to Roman Catholicism, and now Episcopalian with a healthy love for neo-orthodoxy to boot. A due respect that the Holy Spirit will blow where She wills, but not too much at once please--we're finite after all--so give us some limits while we're adjusting to your Reign. (Hat tip to bls)
posted by *Christopher @ 5:32 PM
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I took the quiz and turned out - Emergent/Postmodern, which is very odd as I'm Catholic :-)
My Partner and I are wondering why no category for Neo-heretic. [Not the same as Neo-pagan.]
Theologically-pontficating, I would say that truth is infinitely creatively new though One, whereas heresy is utlimately never new, and unable to create or develop, it is just the same old lie cropping up in a different guise.
Historically, this is complicated by the tendency of Inquisitors (of whatever brand, religious or political) to lump all those who were different together. So that all those burned at the stake are accused of sodomy, for example, when the odds are pretty much against it. But that's what heretics do, so if you are a heretic, you must be a sodomite. Right?
Funny how this never worked in reverse: If you failed to meet one criterion, that never meant you were innocent of heresy. Just that you were covering something up.
In American history, check out Cotton Mathers' intervention during the Salem withcraft when a condemned man recited the Lord's Prayer flawlessly at the gallows, something a witch could supposedly not do. Mathers pointed out to the unsettled crowd that the devil is most dangerous when disguised as an angel of light, and the convicted man was hanged. I hope someone went home and thought about that and said, "Well, yeah, but even so..."
At any rate, a heretic is someone who chooses to elevate a partial truth to Total and Exclusive Truth. Not the path I hope we are walking, for all our stumbling along the way.
Damien,
Ask a Priest (on my sidebar) said something similar: Heresy (which simply means wrong belief) is when something that is normally good in Christian doctrine is overstressed to the point where it obscures another good in doctrine. In this case, it's possible to err on either side.
I like both of your approaches to heresy. Heresy is whenever we destroy paradox. I'm paradox really, not orthodox, if orthodox means brutal literalism, follow bishop so and so lockstep, or whatnot.
I would say that the greatest heresy of all is to kill others for one's understanding the Truth.
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