Letter to the editor: Remember the Puritans

Notes: "In 'The case for open communion' (Apr. 2011, p. 1), [The Rev. Dr.] Gary Nicolosi's argument for liturgical innovation is incredibly retro. The conceptual tools he champions are largely a contemporary rebranding of ideas from the pop psychology and new philosophers of decades ago. The assertion is that cerebral arguments, linear thinking and theological systems are out. What is cool is encountering the supernatural. ... The misadventures of the Puritans with the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts are a perfect example of openness to the supernatural unrestrained by cerebral or linear argument".

Subjects: Nicolosi, Gary (Gary Gabriel), 1950-; Close and open communion - Anglican Church of Canada; Psychology and religion; Supernatural