Robert Shuller, un postmodernist înainte de vreme  care a încercat să schimbe punctele de contact dintre oameni și Dumnezeu este dovedit „falimentar“ de istorie.  El a interzis predicarea vinovăției de păcat și pericolul pedepsei de la judecata divină, preferând să „adapteze“ Evanghelia la specificul societății americane afluente. „Pe săraci, spuena el, îi aveți mereu cu voi. Mie dați-mi … bogații“. Iată un articol sinteză din Christianity Today:

Cracks in the Crystal Cathedral

This past October, the megachurch prototype of the late 20th century filed for bankruptcy. A 24 percent drop in donations and a $50-$100 million debt owed to more than 550 creditors forced the Crystal Cathedral to file. It was a poignant moment in the history of modern evangelicalism.

Robert H. Schuller’s famous Crystal Cathedral was built on a foundation of self-esteem. In a 1984 interview with Christianity Today, Schuller said that when he came to Garden Grove, California, in 1955, he asked himself, “What human condition exists here that I can have a mission to?” His answer was “emotional hunger.” “Because of that,” he said, “we have developed our present ministry.”

That ministry increasingly was defined as the gospel of (click pentru restul articolului)

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