{"id":1320,"date":"2007-06-26T09:22:11","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T09:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/06\/on-the-contrary.html"},"modified":"2007-06-26T09:22:11","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T09:22:11","slug":"on-the-contrary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/06\/on-the-contrary.html","title":{"rendered":"On the contrary"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, one of the bloggers at Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex commented on Phliip Jenkins’ observation that some forms of Christianity are growing in Europe, and Eurabia might not be inevitable:<\/a><\/p>\n

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I would only add that if the future of Christianity lay in its pentacostalist and charismatic movements, then it has no future at all. These sorts of movements are anti-cultural and aesthetically deadening, even their Catholic variants tend toward an aesthetic stupidity that is anti-Christic. They are iconoclastic expressions of faith (inherently heretical in their manner of worship) appealing to a certain emotionalism that is omnipresent in our barbaric age. They have little lasting value. No culture can take root from them; they are, indeed, anti-sacramental at bottom, and so can only attain a most uneasy mixture with the historic, apostolic faith.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, one of the bloggers at Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex commented on Phliip Jenkins’ observation that some forms of Christianity are growing in Europe, and Eurabia might not be inevitable: I would only add that if the future of Christianity lay in its pentacostalist and charismatic movements, then it has no future at all. 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