In his book Tortured
Wonders , Rodney Clapp suggests that Christianity as popularly practiced (and
preached, I would add) is often too dualistic and “spiritual” to help us
actually detangle earthiness from worldliness. To the overly pietistic
everything is worldly, including embodiedness. The reason this is problematic
is it sprouts a mealy kind of Christian Gnosticism that chokes out the good
news—good news for all people , as the
Christmas angel put it. Paul uses a very...
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