Or we could title this, “The Impossible Trinitarianism of Penal Substitution.” Enjoy!
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H/T: Canon Fodder
Daily Archives: February 29, 2008
Catholics and Beards
Posted by Halden
on February 29, 2008
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So, what’s the deal with Catholic clergy not being able to grow beards? Maybe this isn’t any sort of hard-and-fast rule anymore, but I can’t say as I’ve ever seen a Catholic clergyman in a beard before. Ever. I do remember hearing that one of the issues that was part of the parting of the ways between the Eastern and Western churches involved the fact that Orthodox priests favored beards while the church in the West did not. I don’t know if that’s true, but it would seem at least plausible.
But seriously, what’s the deal? Is there a real reason why Catholic priests don’t have beards? Seems to me that a visible way to preserve the fullness of apostolic succession might involve trying to look similar to the Apostles. Seems like beards would be part of that, right?
McCabe on Capitalism
Posted by Halden
on February 29, 2008
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“What is wrong with capitalism is simply that it is based on human antagonism, and it is precisely here that it comes in conflict with Christianity. Capitalism is a state of war, but not just a state of war between equivalent forces; it involves a war between those who believe in and prosecute war as a way of life, as an economy, and those who do not. … Christianity is deeply subversive of capitalism precisely because it announces the improbably possibility that men might life together without war; neither by domination nor by antagonism but by unity in love. It announces this, of course, primarily as a future and nearly miraculous possibility and certainly not as an established fact; Christians are not under the illusion that mankind is sinless or that sin is easily overcome, but they believe that it will be overcome. It was for this reason that Jesus was executed – as a political threat. Not because he was a political activist; he was not. … But he was nonetheless executed as a political threat because the gospel he preached — that the Father loves us and therefore, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, we are able to love one another and stake the meaning of our lives on this — cut to the root of the antagonistic society in which he still lives.”
–Herbert McCabe, God Matters (London: Continuum, 2005), 192-193.
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