What strikes me as odd is that while reformers in the 16th century recognized that their faith was no longer compatible with the religion of the Roman Church and left to start their own bodies, proudly so, contemporary folks who find themselves inside the Roman Church but who have developed a faith even more distinct from it than Protestantism, refuse to admit that truth and leave.
The Protestant reformers and their churches were hyper-Christian: no deviation at all from the Trinity and the Incarnation --ask Servetus-- and an obsession with the Bible. Contemporary Christian and Catholic liberals are hypo-Christian when it comes to content: much more bound to universalist themes that flow from the Enlightenment and cultural Marxism than to the narrow confines of confessional and institutional churches and their sectarian and particular faiths. Take the LCWR: When you are disputing a doctrinal assessment from Rome, you invite Barbara Marx Hubbard as your keynote speaker? What could be clearer?
If you read through the years of speakers and workshops and position papers, etc of the embattled LCWR, and the websites of many of their member sisterhoods, you'd be struck --if you knew anything about 2000 years of Christianity-- about the thin, thin, thin Christology. When the Son of God gets mentioned at all, it is the romantic historical revolutionary and inclusive Jesus --basically a Jewish Martin Luther King (without the plagiarism and serial adulteries)-- or a reference to "the mission of Jesus." And when God is mentioned, it's God or The Spirit or The Ground of Our Being. Pretty generic stuff. A rightwing Unitarian could sign on to it. All designed, of course, to accomodate the real fundamental commitments of these women's groups, to eco-feminism and leftwing social activism.
As Heidegger pointed out, you can often learn more from what is Unsaid than than what is Said.
What they call old vs new "consciousness" is really Catholicism (or any kind of historically continuous Christianity) vs. Something Else.
Why don't they just man up and admit it?
PS. These wymyn are as White as any Tea Party gathering, but because they are Wymyn under attack from the Patriarchy, and belong heart and soul entire to the Democrat/Progressive camp, no news outlet has once noticed this obvious racial fact...
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