He displays ambivalence about both the kitschy
faddishness of some destinations and his own resistance to conversion.
The radical theology is beginning to receive criticism, but as yet most of it seems to be composed largely of patronization, accusations of moral flaws (usually arrogance) and warnings
against faddishness.
Instead, the emphasis on current, if novel, processes creates a feeling of
faddishness rather than coherent prediction.
It seems to me that, absent this, any religious movement, regardless of its rhetoric and sentiment, substantively untethers itself from the intellectual discipline of religious tradition and easily becomes prey to whimsy,
faddishness, or simply adopting the values of the greater society in which it finds itself.
In a world trying to make it on fitful sound bites and
the faddishness of seasonal obsessions, is there a better gift we can offer than abiding, he in us and we in him?
This retrospective makes for a refreshing jolt of sanity — and, it should be added, beauty — in an art world given to excess and
faddishness.
Putting aside the value question (my answer: timely provocation), I wonder whether the number of abandoned blogs is a good proxy for «enthusiasm» (or
faddishness, or popularity, or whatever the blog - academic - metric is).