One of the things I most love about Cathy Grossman’s Faith & Reason blog over at USA Today is her ability to synthesize and compile quick snippets of disparate reactions to a single topic.

Cathy does it again today, following up on Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori’s opening address to her church’s General Convention outside Disneyland. Here’s what caught Cathy’s attention, and what may yet get Jefferts Schori into a bit of hot water:

“…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”

Cathy’s roundup of reaction is worth a quick read.