Understanding the Creeds

[tjhaefner]

While on the Appalachian Trail this spring, I spent a considerable amount of miles with a fellow who teaches at Wesleyan. Oddly enough, he saw a necessity towards objective truth, against the evanglican errors of focusing on just “me and Jesus,” and he had a surprising outlook that the Holy Father, in many ways, speaks for all Christians.

He recently finished a book called Common Ground: What All Christians Believe and Why It Matters ([see http://www.amazon.com/Common-Ground...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217708410&sr=8-1](see http://www.amazon.com/Common-Ground...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217708410&sr=8-1)) and asked me to give him some feedback. I’m approaching this with much trepidation since I, like KD Whitehead, think there’s risk and error to “just boiling it down to the basics of what we all can agree upon.” In effect, if we did that, we would have to omit truths such as the Real Presence since we dont all agree upon that… And Christianity absent the Real Presence…well, you get the picture.

My question to the forum is how do you suggest I go about this? Other sources I should read? Suggestions??

 

[bpbasilphx]

C. S. Lewis has already written such a book. It’s called MERE CHRISTIANITY.

He admits he did not touch on disputed points. But he also said that the infamous “odium theologicum” tends to be on the fringes of the different confessions. He put it somthing like this: It’s in the center or whatever church where the true believers lie, and it’s in this center that there is the most unity; this suggests that it’s something–or Someone–who it’s really all about.