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Has Christianity become gentler over the years? If so, how do you feel about that?
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<blockquote data-quote="hedrick" data-source="post: 69048111" data-attributes="member: 239032"><p>Christianity has had intellectualism, hellfire, and “heart strangely warmed” throughout history. The Catholic tradition includes all three. So do all the major Protestant traditions.</p><p></p><p>Jesus, of course, said that faith is based on love of God and neighbor, but wasn’t shy about warning people of the consequences of not responding to his call, particularly int the Synoptics. John tends to emphasize love, and Paul the intellectual issues. So all three approaches are present in the NT.</p><p></p><p>The emphasis shifts from time to time. You can find plenty of movements in church history that emphasized the positive side, e.g. mysticism, pietism, Wesley.</p><p></p><p>I don’t think I’d say all American Christianity is “lovey-dovey.” It is probably tending to deemphasize hellfire at the moment, though. Perhaps it’s a reaction to revivalism. Perhaps it’s influenced by the Jesus movement of the mid 20th Cent. But responsible churches don’t let it get quite to the point of “my good buddy Jesus,” so I think you need to be a bit more specific in saying what you think is wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hedrick, post: 69048111, member: 239032"] Christianity has had intellectualism, hellfire, and “heart strangely warmed” throughout history. The Catholic tradition includes all three. So do all the major Protestant traditions. Jesus, of course, said that faith is based on love of God and neighbor, but wasn’t shy about warning people of the consequences of not responding to his call, particularly int the Synoptics. John tends to emphasize love, and Paul the intellectual issues. So all three approaches are present in the NT. The emphasis shifts from time to time. You can find plenty of movements in church history that emphasized the positive side, e.g. mysticism, pietism, Wesley. I don’t think I’d say all American Christianity is “lovey-dovey.” It is probably tending to deemphasize hellfire at the moment, though. Perhaps it’s a reaction to revivalism. Perhaps it’s influenced by the Jesus movement of the mid 20th Cent. But responsible churches don’t let it get quite to the point of “my good buddy Jesus,” so I think you need to be a bit more specific in saying what you think is wrong. [/QUOTE]
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