Not exact matches
Doctrinal pluralism, despite its
intellectual incoherence, will work so long as something akin to Liberal Protestantism is held by the
leadership of the
church and so long as those who are not Liberal Protestants acquiesce.
Within two generations after Origen the
intellectual leadership of the Christian
churches in Cappadocia were calling for the
churches themselves to develop that «atmosphere» by developing a distinctively Christian literature in the broad sense.
This explains why the innovative
intellectual leadership required for revamping
church history and reconceiving the teaching
of history across the entire academic syllabus, both secular and theological, has been painfully slow in emerging.
«The difference is that our
intellectual leadership, the media and the then - mainline
churches did not tell the morally slovenly sector
of the electorate that they were right in their indifference to character.»
They numbered about 125
churches, which included the wealth,
intellectual leadership, and energy
of Boston.