(urth) Wolfe Heretic?

[Jeff Wilson]

Adam Thornton wrote:
> 
> 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...

Did you miss the various Crusades? Or hymns like "Onward Christian 
Soldiers?" Militarism's been given the imprimatur for a long time.

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