“The secular world of ideas plays the doubting game almost exclusively and is usually scornful of anyone who doesn’t. Ironically, however, the Church also plays this game to a great extent. The mystery of the Gospel, the paradox of the Incarnation, and the wondrous enigma of Grace are freeze-dried into a highly rationalized and/or authoritarian system of theologies, codes, rules, prescriptions, orders of service, and forms of church government. Everything is written down, everything is…
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