![]() ![]() Those who use the term for such things ought to stop. As when someone uses this term for someone who is amillennial or a preterist or a partial inerrantist or paedobaptistic or trans-substantialist … or a host of other things. Now to the three uses of this term that I routinely hear:įirst, there is the slipshod use: a “heretic” is used here for anyone who doesn’t believe something we might think important. ![]() We are concerned here with the term “heretic.” As far as we can see, failure in practice is just as bad as failure in theology. Jesus’ focus was on “hypocrisy” more than “heresy,” and it might just be an indication of how far we’ve strayed for us to give so much attention to “heresy” and not enough to failure in praxis. Before I get there, though, let me add another point: it is too bad we don’t have such an evocative term for praxis.
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