Debate over whether Francis is "liberal" or "conservative" misguided application of narrow & parochial American political spectrum to Church
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@HeerJeet I may need a twitter translatorThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Anyways, Pope's visit should be opportunity to reflect on fact there are things well outside our political battles, entire complex cultures!
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@HeerJeet and how much Lockean liberalism has infested American evangelicalism.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet read Elisha Williams' Essential Rights and Liberties of Protestants (1740s)--basic structure of Xnty is social contract theory.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet I'd suggest that modern American liberalism never really shook off Lockean liberalism and always reflexively swerves towards it. -
@HeerJeet But all this really has strange echoes of the complaints of Leo XIII regarding "Americanism". - Show replies
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@HeerJeet For Americans to engage w Francis, I think Lockean Liberalism is less an impediment than is Bentham/Mills utilitarianism. -
@DanaHoule Fair enough.
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