Can I start off here my making a note on the whole of the Robinson readings that it is amazing to me to what extent we, as a group, will go out of our way to quarrel about things. If we had, through our ages simply devoted half of the time we spent quarreling about (from my perspective) silly things, we would have had a better chance at being the American Manifestion of Religion.
This chapter turns to the quarrel over institional power or lameness, depending on your perspective. It ties together the loose ends of the threads started in previous chapters, winding through the consolidation and all of it requisite squabbling, passing through Weiman and Hartshorne's philosophical theology and ending up at the end, or at least the theological end which is Adam's voluntary association of faith.
I had always found some reason or common sense in Adam's "unity through variety" but after having read all this Robinson, I am feeling now that unity though variety is less a wonderfully though out theological position than it is a self-evident statement of fact. What other option do we have?
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