Comments on: Augustine the Crazy Feminist

By: Marvin

Marvin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:30:05 +0000

Can’t wait to break that one out next Trinity Sunday!

By: Marvin

Marvin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:13:40 +0000

When the Middle Ages begin is a good question. I think for Southern they start at 700 AD, but for Cantor they begin (and I’m speaking somewhat tongue-in-cheek here) in 3200 BC with the appearance of authoritarianism in the Nile delta.

By: kim fabricius

kim fabricius — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:16:07 +0000

For the mix, from the Odes of Solomon (second or third century), reflecting early Syriac Christianity:

A cup of milk was offered to me
And I drank it with the sweetness of the Lord’s kindness.
The Son is the cup,
And he who was milked was the Father,
And she who milked him is the Holy Spirit.

How’s that for cross – and trans- – gendering!

By: rassleas

rassleas — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:45:36 +0000

Augustine was oh so Emo :) in a cool way

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:03:19 +0000

isn’t Maximus a patristic author, rather than a medievalist? running patristics up to, say, John of Damascus?

By: roger flyer

roger flyer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:56:17 +0000

Two words for all you authenticotheologicos…Johnny Cash

By: Hill

Hill — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:35:25 +0000

I enjoyed it.

By: Anthony Paul Smith

Anthony Paul Smith — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:41:44 +0000

Probably some kind of unorthodox Catholic socialist type.

I think we’ve reached the limit of this joke, or at least my ability to make the joke funny.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:29:35 +0000

Steve Earle is a Maoist Redneck, which if you ask me, is a sect with legs.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:23:36 +0000

Liberal Protestants were calling God Mother back when the all the cool kids who have a crush on Rome today were handing out tracts saying she’s the whore of Babylon. I’m telling you, the dinosaur lives, and he will eat you all!

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:41:17 +0000

Charlie, Jodi and Chris, thank you for your comments and clarifications. I have not studied any Latin and so I humble myself to your expertise.

Jodi I take your point in regards to not dismissing the traditional forms. When I construct ‘alternative’ and ‘expansive’ liturgy I am not engaging in an argument with anybody, let alone an absent party. What I am seeking to do is to do justice to the rich biblical imagery. So in any of my liturgies you will find both the ‘alternative’ and ‘expansive’ right along with the traditional. God is our father as much as God is our mother. God is like a mother and God is like a father. As for me, I do not wish to privilege either over the other. Just because something is older doesn’t make it better, and of course that also goes the other way.

BTW, this is a real live issue for me since some of my former conservative evangelical colleagues (who I suspect were potty trained at the point of a pea shooter) want to label me a ‘heretic’, a ‘liberal’, etc. for employing ‘the something new’ in the liturgy. The line ‘some of my best friends are women, but …’ just doesn’t do it for me.

Marvin, I luv ya dude :)

By: Halden

Halden — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:38:03 +0000

Who are the people who like Steve Earle, then, in this typology?

By: Anthony Paul Smith

Anthony Paul Smith — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:29:29 +0000

To keep it going, liberal protestants are the ones who are still really into Hootie and the Blowfish, but are flirting with listening more to Dave Matthew’s Band.

By: Anthony Paul Smith

Anthony Paul Smith — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:01:18 +0000

Mennonites, by analogy, are those who were into folk before it was cool (again) and are now really pissed.

By: Anthony Paul Smith

Anthony Paul Smith — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:59:50 +0000

Fairly certain being a liberal protestant is very uncool. Quasi-Catholics are the hipsters of theological studies.