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Killing a church: Review of ?Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity?

By Alliance Alert

The American Spectator's Mark Tooley reviews William Murchison's "Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity": "The Episcopal Church's current crisis technically began with its 2003 election of openly homosexual Bishop Gene Robinson, igniting growing tensions with the nearly 80 million member Anglican Communion, especially its increasingly dominant and conservative African members. But Murchison traces the church's wrong turn to the 1960s, when Episcopal elites increasingly chose for cultural conformity rather than cultural transformation. Like other Mainline Protestant elites, Episcopalians began to shed 'exclusivist' claims about Christianity in favor of pluralism, where every ideology has a voice except for orthodoxy."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 03, 2010 (boomark / email).