Primitivism vs Catholicity

Spiritual timekeeping is nourished by Jesus’s promise that the Spirit will guide us into all truth across time… This stands in contrast to what I’ll call the “primitivism” of so much American Christianity. Primitivism is a curious view of history that sees God’s presence limited to only key points in history. Most importantly, primitivist Christianities assume that the Spirit was present in the first century and then somehow absent and forgotten for the long intervening centuries until someone (usually the leader of their sect) rediscovered “the truth” in the nineteenth century, say, and…