Who cares about heresy?

Posted on November 16, 2009 
Filed under Theology

heresyMartin Downs at Against Heresies writes,

“Guy Davies draws my attention to the soon to be released Heresy: a history of defending the truth by Alister McGrath and published by SPCK (with a foreword by Rick Warren). I will look forward to reading it.

But here’s a curious line from the Amazonian blurb:

‘McGrath’s provocative thesis is that the categories of heresy and orthodoxy must be preserved by the church today.’

Go on, read it again, only this time slowly. Provocative? Would that not have received a blank stare, or a furrowed brow, from the apostles, early church fathers, medieval schoolmen, reformers, and the puritans?…”

– Read the article here.