mystery, reverence and heresy's destruction

As an apology (defense) against caving into culture, especially in our context of postmodernism (where everyone creates their own truth, just as long as it doesn't clash with someone else's truth--not really truth at all if it is only true for you, though), a professor at Wheaton College, Matthew Milliner, has come up with what he calls "9.5 Theses against the Emergent Church."  Most of them were very good, but the one I found most interesting and most helpful was this one, #8:

8. Heresy is boring, not exciting because it eviscerates mystery. If you’re attracted to heresy because it makes you feel naughty then that’s kinda creepy. If you’re attracted to it because you don’t want to “limit God,” then the religion that serves a God who became a particular first-century Palestinian Jew might not be for you.

"Heresy...eviscerates mystery", it deprives mystery of its essential content and purpose. I would add that it's no wonder then that American Christianity suffers from a lack of reverence and proper fear.  As I posted on Facebook the other day, "mystery encourages reverence."  The Faith is mysterious, it must be, otherwise it shouldn't be called "faith".  A non-mysterious belief system is really a non-faith; at that point it is a religion of man.  If you look at your religion and think: 'wow, I can understand all of this', then you may also want to consider this: you have proven yourself foolish time after time in the insignificant, earthly matters, so why do you think you can grasp the heavenly, eternal things?

Let us ever cling more confidently and boldly to the mystery and the holy Mysteries (especially here the Sacraments).  To do this, we must deny ourselves and our own will and intellectual ability and pick up the foolishness of the cross.  Let us consider Solomon's words of wisdom in their full weightiness: "Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding." (Proverbs 3.5)

Read all of Milliner's Theses here: http://www.millinerd.com/2007/05/95-theses.html