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I sat on an e-mail to him expressing my disapproval but I never sent it because "who am I?"
Alpha is protestant garbage that undermines Catholic teaching and it has no business within a mile of a Catholic parish. But this just further presses the stuff Voris was talking about in a recent video (which I'll create a separate thread for).
I find it absolutely incredible that with all the many thousands of brilliant resources that have been produced within the confines of the Church, that any right-minded Catholic would look externally for material. I didn't make the long trek into the Catholic Church to be lead back into protestantism.
It's OFFENSIVE.
Now, this isn't being offered or requested of everyone, but it sounds like it's being aimed at college students and other young adults. At 32 I may or may not qualify as, not that I care.
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Criticism:
Alpha has been criticised for a charismatic emphasis. A particular problem for non-charismatic evangelicals is what is seen as Nicky Gumbel's emphasis upon the person and work of the Holy Spirit.[citation needed] As a result, some churches have chosen to teach a different view of the Holy Spirit, although this is discouraged in Gumbel's book How to Run the Alpha Course.
More conservative critics (especially from a Reformed and evangelical perspective) have complained that the course does not adequately define sin and therefore does not properly explain the reason for Jesus's death and resurrection.[citation needed] The alternative Christianity Explored course is an attempt to go beyond what Alpha teaches on sin.
John Vincent of the Urban Theology Unit in Sheffield has suggested that Alpha presents too narrow a version of Christianity and one too centred on what theologians have said about Jesus rather than allowing students the freedom to draw their own inspiration from studying Jesus' life and teaching. "The Alpha course, because of its didactic style, its narrow-mindedness and its closed nature, doesn't facilitate alternative views", he says. "I happen to believe it therefore leads people into a self-centred religion which is not the same as the genuine Christian discipleship."[26]
Some Catholics have criticised the fifteen-session Alpha in a Catholic Context version of the course for being unbalanced without sufficiently presenting some Roman Catholic doctrines, which instead need to be added afterwards in additional sessions.[27]
Alpha course - Wikipedia
Alpha is protestant garbage that undermines Catholic teaching and it has no business within a mile of a Catholic parish. But this just further presses the stuff Voris was talking about in a recent video (which I'll create a separate thread for).
I find it absolutely incredible that with all the many thousands of brilliant resources that have been produced within the confines of the Church, that any right-minded Catholic would look externally for material. I didn't make the long trek into the Catholic Church to be lead back into protestantism.
It's OFFENSIVE.
Now, this isn't being offered or requested of everyone, but it sounds like it's being aimed at college students and other young adults. At 32 I may or may not qualify as, not that I care.
EDIT TO ADD:
Criticism:
Alpha has been criticised for a charismatic emphasis. A particular problem for non-charismatic evangelicals is what is seen as Nicky Gumbel's emphasis upon the person and work of the Holy Spirit.[citation needed] As a result, some churches have chosen to teach a different view of the Holy Spirit, although this is discouraged in Gumbel's book How to Run the Alpha Course.
More conservative critics (especially from a Reformed and evangelical perspective) have complained that the course does not adequately define sin and therefore does not properly explain the reason for Jesus's death and resurrection.[citation needed] The alternative Christianity Explored course is an attempt to go beyond what Alpha teaches on sin.
John Vincent of the Urban Theology Unit in Sheffield has suggested that Alpha presents too narrow a version of Christianity and one too centred on what theologians have said about Jesus rather than allowing students the freedom to draw their own inspiration from studying Jesus' life and teaching. "The Alpha course, because of its didactic style, its narrow-mindedness and its closed nature, doesn't facilitate alternative views", he says. "I happen to believe it therefore leads people into a self-centred religion which is not the same as the genuine Christian discipleship."[26]
Some Catholics have criticised the fifteen-session Alpha in a Catholic Context version of the course for being unbalanced without sufficiently presenting some Roman Catholic doctrines, which instead need to be added afterwards in additional sessions.[27]
Alpha course - Wikipedia
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