Cafeteria Christianity - First Use in Print

First Use in Print

First use in print appears to be in the magazine The Month, 1992. Though the term cafeteria Catholicism had already appeared in Fidelity magazine of E. Michael Jones in 1986.

Another early use was Richard Holloway in an interview in the Third Way, September 2001.

You get cafeteria Christianity, a kind of shopping for ideas you approve of. They turned out to be right for the wrong reasons, because I think that once you admit that there are in scripture large sections that by our standards are not just inappropriate but scarcely moral - such as the justification of slavery...

— Third Way, September 2001