Marginal Christianity

In this piece theologian Jürgen Moltmann makes a frontal assault on the heresy of nationalism, a heresy which has distorted and disabled Christianity in the most profound of ways. I add “tribalism” to “Nationalism” because in our day the breakdown of national entities into various “tribes” is a prominent and growing reality. The same dynamics that fuel nationalism also drive this tribalism. I take heresy rather narrowly as any teaching that substantively compromise either one of or both of the two ecumenical creeds definitional of Christianity: the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds. The former expounds the mystery of the trinity; the latter the mystery of the incarnation.  Does “nationalism/tribalism,” really qualify as a heresy? How does it compromise these ecumenical creeds? First, what is nationalism”? A dictionary definition will do: -spirit or aspirations common to the whole of a nation. -devotion and loyalty to one's own country; patriotism. -the policy...

http://www.faith-theology.com/2013/10/the-apostles-creed-for.html by Kim Fabricius I don’t believe in God: not in the Father (Old Nobodaddy); nor in the Almighty (aka the Big Other); and as for “Creator” – well, not ex nihilo – no way; but maybe I believe in the “God” of radical Process Theology, maybe “God” worked a world from the shit he’d been given and then became otiose or moribund, or maybe “God” is just an obfuscation for “world”, or maybe shit just happens. I certainly believe that “God”, “Father”, “Almighty”, “Creator” are signifiers of “transcendence”, and that all transcendence-talk is irredeemably ideological,   that all transcendence-talk inevitably legitimates oppression. In short, I believe that transcendence is a univocal no-no. (Let’s cut out the Greek metaphysical crap and cut to the chase.) I believe that if ever there was a “God” not identical to the world, or to the “historical process”, he became” im-man-ent” (M...