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Daily Archives: December 23, 2007
This would have been a better pirates movie I’m sure…
Posted by Halden
on December 23, 2007
6 comments
Why are you what you are?
Posted by Halden
on December 23, 2007
11 comments
Bob posted a question for protestants a while back inquiring about why they were not Catholic. More recently Fr. John Fenton, an Eastern Orthodox priest has asked people to share why they are not Orthodox. While the comments on these threads have been interesting, the discussions have been structured in a primarily negative way. They ask the question why some one is not such and such rather than asking why they are what they are. I would like to throw down a more positive ecclesial survey by asking readers why they are what they are. Why do you belong to the tradition and community that you do? How strong is your “belonging” where you are?
The Protestant as Critic
Posted by Halden
on December 23, 2007
4 comments
The liberal Protestant is essentially a critic. He is a critic of the Bible, a critic of tradition, a critic of traditional Christian morality, a critic of anything that is the received religion. The liberal Protestant feels obliged to pick it apart, reduce it to facts and submit the mysteries of the faith to human reason.
One wonders, if this is true for the “liberal protestant”, is it any less true for the consevative species thereof? The question really seems to be whether or not the particular mode of protestant criticizing is a movement of the Spirit to reshape the catholic church according to the will of Christ. Of course the fragmentary, reactionary, and disunified state of protestantism would seem to mitigate or at least severely chasten such an interpretation, wouldn’t it?
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