Reactions to "Heresy" Comment

By now, you have probably heard about the comment made by the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Dr. Katherine Jefferts Schori, at their General Convention last week. If not, here is what she said in her Opening Address:

The overarching connection in all of these crises has to do with the great Western heresy – that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God. It’s caricatured in some quarters by insisting that salvation depends on reciting a specific verbal formula about Jesus. That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy, at the center of existence, as the ground of being. That heresy is one reason for the theme of this Convention.

Not surprisingly, there have been a few responses from evangelicals to what Schori called "the great Western heresy."

Here is one from Al Mohler.

Here is one from Richard Mouw.

And here is another from Scott Clark.