A few days ago I posted on “First Thoughts” an item contrasting an article from the (Southern) Baptist Press claiming that only two of the 33 miners trapped underground in Chile were Christians, with one by an English Catholic who stressed the miners’ Catholicism and said he had “no doubt at all that there weren’t that many Adventists or Evangelicals down there.” The first respondent wrote that the comments show
that too many people in the churches have no understanding of or appreciation for “mere Christianity”, and certainly do not see their churches as rooms off the same, shared, common hallway, as C. S. Lewis described it. Both the arrogance of the Baptist minister who presumes to know people’s hearts and the dismissive comment of the Catholic writer are disturbing but hardly unique manifestations of “denominational exceptionalism.”Read Full Article »
