Our Far- Away Church (A Distant Ecclesiology)
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What is evangelicalism, and what are its historical sources and current cultural legacies? If evangelicalism has become too monotonously purified or sterile, it may be in a position to provide its own correctives.
In many religious traditions, a god or ultimate source of authority is symbolically and playfully banished in order to regain its transcendent power over people (compare to Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World,chapter 8).
In a similar way, contemporary critical and artistic approaches to spiritual reductionisms and fundamentalist pieties, when done well, can be both culturally worthwhile and spiritiually beneficial.
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