Radical Protestants have always been concerned for the inwardly authentic quality of personal experience and commitment. From this perspective one judges the run-of-the-mill piety which is satisfied with conformity to easily attained patterns of expression. This critical perspective on hypocrisy and superficiality presupposes a more authentic alternative, which is very difficult to define. Once it is clearly defined, that new, more authentic form becomes inauthentic in its turn; yet that kind of preoccupation always belongs as part of the radical Protestant vision. The "civil religion" is judged for being feasible; its demands are too attainable.


p. 175 - The Priestly Kingdom (1984)


Radical Protestants have always been concerned for the inwardly authentic quality of personal experience and commitment. From this perspective one...

Radical Protestants have always been concerned for the inwardly authentic quality of personal experience and commitment. From this perspective one...

Radical Protestants have always been concerned for the inwardly authentic quality of personal experience and commitment. From this perspective one...

Radical Protestants have always been concerned for the inwardly authentic quality of personal experience and commitment. From this perspective one...