Phyllis Tickle Quotes
Five Quotes by: Phyllis Tickle {of Darwin’s evolution theory} It was the tipping point that sent us careening off into new cultural, social, political, and theological territory.
Book: by Phyllis Tickle entitled: The Great Emergence Published: July 2009.
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The Reformtion was to answer the question "Sola Scriptura, Scriptura sola". While we may laugh and say the divsisiveness was Protestantism greatest gift, ours is a somber joke. Denominationlism is a disunity in the Body of Christ and, ironically one that has a bloody history. Now, some five hundred years later, even many of the most diehard protestants among us have grown suspicious of "Scripture and Scripture only". We question what the words mean - literally? metaphorically? actually? We even question which word do and do not belong in scripture and the purity of the editorial line of decent of those that do. We begin to refer to Luther's principle of "Sola Scriptura, Scriptura sola" as having been little more than a paper pope in place of a flesh and blood one. And even as we speak, the authority which has been in place for five hundred years withers away in our hands.
Book: by Phyllis Tickle entitled: The Great Emergence pp46-47 Published: 1st October 2008.
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For months now, the Lord has been talking to me about the restoration of His original intent for His people. He would tell me over and over, "I'm taking back the original intent I had before the fall, before the creation of the world...back to the beginning."
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 8th February 2008.
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Always without fail, the thing that gets lost early in the process of a reconfiguration is any clear and general understanding of who or what is to be used as the arbitrator of correct belief, action, and control… The Reformation,…was to answer the question… sola scriptura, scriptura sola… While we may laugh and say the divisiveness was Protestantism’s greatest gift to Christianity, ours is a somber joke. Demoninationalism is a disunity in the Body of Christ and, ironically, one that has a bloody history… Now, some five hundred years later, even many of the most die-hard Protestants among us have grown suspicious of “Scripture and Scripture only.” We question what the words mean - literally? Metaphorically? Actually? We even question which words do and do not belong in Scripture and the purity of the editorial line of decent of those that do. We begin to refer to Luther’s principle of “sola scriptura, scriptura sola” as having been little more than the creation of a paper pope in place of a flesh and blood one. And even as we speak, the authority that has been in place for five hundred years withers away in our hands.
Book: by Phyllis Tickle entitled: The Great Emergence pp 45, 46, 47 Published: 2008.
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The new Christianity of the Great Emergence must discover some authority base or delivery system and/or governing agency of its own. It must formulate—and soon—something other than Luther’s Sola Scriptura which, although used so well by the Great Reformation originally, is now seen as hopelessly outmoded or insufficient ...
Book: by Phyllis Tickle entitled: The Great Emergence, p 151 Published: 2008.
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