Saturday, June 26, 2010

Doug Pagitt's new Book; What do you think of his Quadrants?

5 comments:

Chris Epting said...

I think he is on to something. Case study: as Episcopalians we are likely to be very open and tolerant of theological diversity...but don't mess with our Book of Common Prayer, or "apostolic succession" of bishops!
Others (even Anglicans in our own Communion) are very tolerant of changing and indigenous worship and music...but don't mess with the Bible (proof texts rule!)

Katie Z. said...

yeah, that really makes sense to me!!! I think he whittled down a whole lot of problems into a really concise and common sense framework for these discussions.

Lon Marshall said...

It's nice to hear from the mainliners. I do agree that Protestant/evangelicals are willing to adjust the medium if they think the content is "sound". Sound has a meaning all it's own. I spoke about that in a recent blog post .

Chris Epting said...

Yeah, like "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" " 'sound' may be in the ear of the listener!"

Or, one person's "sound" may be another's "silence. "

Katie Z. said...

You know, it's interesting to think about being a "mainliner." Yes, United Methodists are pretty standard mainline... but even within that framework there are "high church" and "low church", or I guess, more traditional and more evangelical traditions. The church I served in Nashville was a big downtown place and liturgy/tradition/appearance was placed above content... you were free to disagree, differences of theology were valued. My small town Iowa church is much more rigid on thought, but seems to me to be more flexible on style.