Pluralism

I posted yesterday about "the decoupling of society from nature". Another great shift which has come over us all is pluralism (the coexistence of two or more states, groups, principles, or sources of authority). It affects the Church, too, and very directly, in all kinds of ways. One has to work out what one is to do with pluralism in a congregation. For me, that happened in the 1990s. But in society, what this means is that the same issues are approached from different angles, and the effect is often paralysis. I am a deputy editor of a journal which recently published an interesting proposal: as an emergency, put classical law -- particularly classical views of coercion -- back in place, to give us all time to work it out. It seems to be a pipedream.