kent lee's blog & ramble

In the 11th century, organized Christianity split into East and West, mostly for political and cultural reasons that were a bit silly. In the 16th century, Protestantism split off, though Luther's intention was not to split organizationally from the Catholic Church - merely to reform it from within. Since then Protetestantism has split into countless denominations. Two big splits followed by many smaller fractures. From the latter 1800s to the 1920s another major split took place over time, mostly within Protestantism, across various denominations: the liberal / conservative split. One one side, the liberals or modernists, and on the other side, evangelicals and fundamentalists. I question whether this kind of split was wise or was totally necessary, and I think both sides were to blame. To some degree this was in response to modern science - geology in the 1820s showing us that the earth was very old, and later evolutionary biology, showing us that species arose from simpler ...

I hope to post some thoughts on liberal theologians I've read lately. For lack of time, I'll post some links about Bishop Spong's rather liberal pop theology. First is a well written response to his theses from Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams; second, a review of one of his earlier books from Probe Ministries (I don't necessarily vouch for PM, as they are sometimes too fundy, but this review is decent).