Posted on 09/20/2010 6:26:13 AM PDT by MarianoApologeticus
...there is a lot more to this minister than worship, Scripture and creeds as he holds to what he refers to as “unorthodox views.”
The “liberal-leaning United Church of Christ” has “allowed him to work as a campus minister in such places as…the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque.” He has also been a part of one of the most discredited scholarly hoaxes of modern times the (anti) Jesus Seminar which is described as “a colloquium of scholars who tried to peel off layers of church dogma to unearth the historical Jesus.”
Yet, the Jesus Seminar attempted to bury Jesus in layers of secular anti-supernatural dogma of their own making (for info on the historical Jesus please see: essays at this link)...
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
To Rutledge, God is a process of mysterious cosmic creativity that makes for greater love and justice. He thinks of God as a force working within human beings and nature, and he sees his role as trying to imitate that divine character whose greatest exemplar is Jesus.
Slap the term "liberal-leaning" on anything and you can discredit anything on this forum, but I can't disagree with his general premise, unless you tell me he's pro-choice or for gay marriage.
This campus mister is a Humanist.
There already is a church for humanists and it’s called the Unitarian Church.
Looks to be “another gosopel”. Be warned.
Rutledge is not “liberal-leaning”. He is more like “liberal-pulling”. Instead of leaning toward the liberal side, he is on the other side of liberal pulling it away from any orthodoxy.
This is nothing but Eastern mysticism and pantheism.
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