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This community, rather than being a religious crack house, refuses to worship the idol which would. In order to unearth this truth, rollins prescribes a radical and wholesale critique of contemporary christianity that he calls pyrotheology. Theological firebrand peter rollins asserts that mainstream christianity reduces god to an idol. Feb 28, 2017 here god is not approached as an object we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.
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