'The Heritic' is a documentary about Rob Bell, an author and former Michigian mega-chruch pastor who gradually deconstructed many of the assumptions of the conservative Christian worldview from which he came; what resulted is an approach to God which many in his Evangelical tradition have branded heresy. Bell's approach is diffuse, it is grounded in the unity of all people in the sight of God and more interested in the questioning of assumptions and the process of grappling with big questions then it is in any concrete set of answers.
While I have listened to Bell speak on a number of topics this 70-odd minute documentary provides a good biographical and general philosohical overview of the man and his work, in it he touches on political, sociological and theological topics but more in an apitite wetting way then anything even semi comprehensive. While Bell's evolving views have cost him much of his old Evangelical audiance he has gained a strong following amongst former fundamentalists and the spiritually dispossessed or non commited. His rejection of atheistic materlism and persuite of a kind of spiritual third way has made him enimes on both sides of the God fence and probably shows he's on to something. I now want to read some Bell so appitate successfully wetted. ***
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