Rohan Pryor wrote:
I wonder how we burn heretics these days?
We don't. We just drum them out of the church. Witness Peter Cameron in the Presbyterian Church in Sydney in 1993. He was lucky enough not to be Australian, and therefore had the option of returning to his more-enlightened native Scotland, but Sydney pushed him out, for sure.
The power brokers I was referring to don't work in the Synods and Assembly that I've seen, but are often older people who've been part of the Church their whole lives, have particular views on theology and ecclesiology that have started to "set" because they're not engaged by the evolution of ideas that ongoing study (academic or otherwise) produces, and are worried that changes will threaten to de-stabilise the rock of their faith in a world that's already threatening in its pace of change. When these power brokers come up against newly-trained and newly-keened ministers, who are paid from their pockets and whose placement was approved by them and who have been members of that community for decades, it's little wonder that the power brokers win most times.
I really like that definition. Thanks Rohan.
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