reference at the center of its whole life will be unable to endure the resulting tensions. Yet in spite of what is said from the side of liberation theology, I would affirm that to be able to hold these tensions is part of the essential witness of the church to the Kingdom. We live under the cross. I am not overlooking the fact that there may be occasions where a particular position is to be judged not merely as error but as apostasy and calls for excommunication. One cannot exclude that possibility.