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What Do “Progressive” Christians Believe?

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D. C. Toedt III

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The Progressive Christian blog today reviews several statements of what we might call “liberal” Christianity.  He boils them down to what he says would fit on a bumper sticker (always a useful exercise):

So, what is my “take away” from all of this. A Progressive Christian has attempted to distill five particularly pithy and sloganlike guiding principles that should fit each of the approaches outlined above:

1. A Path, not a regime.
2. A Relationship, not a rulebook.
3. Inclusion, not exclusion.
4. Justice and Opportunity for all, not a few.
5. Stewardship, not dominion.

Which could fit on a bumpersticker as follows:
A Path, A Relationship, Inclusion, Justice, Stewardship.

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    The problem I always have with some of the modern configurations is that they tend to remove the impact of Incarnation – and this is definitely my understanding of, and approach to, this faith. (Some people even think that Anglicanism has a particular insight into the mystery of the Incarnation.)
    This is also why I prefer “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” to “Creator, Redeemer, and Sactifier.” (I’m not averse to “One, Holy, and Living God,” though, and I do appreciate the effort to find some way to avoid always describing God as necessarily a boy.) I think it’s important to keep the physical references front-and-center, and some of these words are too cerebral and theoretical, IMO.
    I still think rentention of the Creeds – with Anglican latitude in interpretation of these things – is the way to go.

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