Church of England (CoE) to Create "Pagan" Christian Churches...Ummm, say what?

[HammerStone]

The church is training ministers to create “a pagan church where Christianity [is] very much in the centre” to attract spiritual believers.



Ministers are being trained to create new forms of Anglicanism suitable for people of alternative beliefs as part of a Church of England drive to retain congregation numbers.



Reverend Steve Hollinghurst, a researcher and adviser in new religious movements told the BBC: “I would be looking to formulate an exploration of the Christian faith that would be at home in their culture.”

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10133906/Church-of-England-creating-pagan-church-to-recruit-members.html

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

Sounds like the emergent church

 

[Mungo]

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10133906/Church-of-England-creating-pagan-church-to-recruit-members.html

I heard about this on the radio this morning.

BTW you link doesn't work if you have accessed more than the limit for the month (as I have!).

Looked on the BBC website but all it says about this is:

"The Church of England is making efforts to recruit the increasing number of pagans and others who follow alternative spiritualties. As the BBC's religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott reports, the church is training pioneer ministers to create new forms of Anglicanism suitable for spiritual seekers."

 

[Niki]

Sounds about right for the gospel according to man's sinful, fallen nature.

Church of satan, what?

 

[HeRoseFromTheDead]

BTW you link doesn't work if you have accessed more than the limit for the month (as I have!).

Try turning off your modem for a while to see if you can get a new IP address when you turn it back on. Or it may just be a cookie issue. Delete all cookies from telegraph.co.uk

 

[JB_Reformed Baptist]

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10133906/Church-of-England-creating-pagan-church-to-recruit-members.html

As shocking as it might seem to us, in this day and age. It was and is the habit of the RCC throughout early church history, unto now to do the same. Indeed it has led by example and it's wayward sister is doing the same. A tree is known by its fruit!

 

[aspen]

Boy, now the Catholc church is getting maligned by this foolishness? Crazy!