(urth) Wolfe Heretic?

[Adam Thornton]

On Jul 16, 2008, at 12:17 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:

>
>> Seriously: we're supposed to be talking about the writings of someone
>> who is ... famously Catholic, with ... some really nonstandard  
>> theology,
>
> I know Wolfe considers himself to be orthodox. What bits of heresy  
> do you
> accuse him of? I don't see any that's explicitly in there....

The outright rejection of pacifism (which I believe is pretty clear in  
the interviews) seems to directly repudiate much of the Sermon on the  
Mount, which I think I am being pretty orthodox in believing to be  
among the very centralmost of Christian positions (although, yes, of  
course you can point to the moneychangers, and, yes, then you can  
point to Christ carrying a scourge...but I think that most orthodox  
theologians would react pretty violently to the suggestion of Christ- 
as-Torturer, which is among the fundamental metaphors underlying the  
New Sun).

I keep getting whiffs of Manicheanism as well, although that is  
proving much harder to pin down.

Adam
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