JUST SO. I think there is a lot of JEALOUSY and EGO inside Robert Sungenis because a lot of real scholars dont take him seriously. If he is so brilliant- how come no Catholic University would accept him in its PhD program ? He sports a phony PhD from Calamus, which is a diploma mill in England run by a hypno-therapist. Look it up.
Ummm… even if you discount Bob’s PhD, he still has more theological and scriptural credibility than you, or anybody on this list does… Anyone who has read any of his books, Not By… series especially, will see that he is a serious scholar, endorsed by many of the popular Catholic authors then…
Whats the OP?
I get the feeling people are just seeing Sungenis’ name and piling on without reading the actual review.I would agree… you can tell, considering they think he supports SSPX and Fr. Feeney… Goes to show, Catholics are not immune to ignorance either…Original Post/Poster
Good Post. SUNGENIS raises some issues that are well worth discussing. EWTN is the only Catholic avenue for many shut-ins and the elderly.
Why? On what grounds?
Amen.
I DON’T think MR. SUNGENIS can be characterized as an uber-traditionalist. He is not against the Novus Ordo Mass- just silly abuses of the liturgy, like many of us are. Despite his strained reasoning on why he got a degree from CALAMUS, a diploma mill,
I don’t think it gets much better than this. A hypnotherapist with a specialization in past life regressions. In the time he can spare from supervising PhD programs in religious studies, the one field he seems to have missed in his holistic studies, he serves as both principal and acting rector for Calamus International University. I note he also claims degrees from the West Indies. Anyone want to bet that a search for those degrees would result in a finding that they were granted by CIU?
Are you aware of the quality of the theology being taught at those “Catholic” institutions that you listed?
Laurence, If you are implying that places like Fordham, Notre Dame, Marquette, Catholic U., Georgetown are no longer teaching traditional ( conservative ) Catholic Theology, you are probably correct. Is is possible that North America and Western Europe have evolved to a more nuanced and probing expression of Carholic theology to reflect the modern world ? The old Church of Law and structure that many of us grew up with doesn’t make any sense to many adult Catholics. We don’t see anything weong with alter girls and women deacons. Maybe in Africa or Latin America, still patriarchal cultures, the old Traditional Catholicism can grow. Maybe the Notre Dame’s are the true expression of an American Catholic Church breaking free of a too simple past when Mother Church had all the answers for her little children. We are not little anymore.
Oh my. And so the best answer for a traditional Catholic is to go to a place like Calamus, run by a Jewish (irony?) hypnotherapist, that pushes new age? We should pay them money to help them spread all that even more? Did you see the choices and how many of them are new agey?
Right - the US Catholic is trying to impose democratic culture on a hierarchy. Now if Jesus wanted that He would have given all of us the right to vote on His teachings. He didn’t, so we cannot change His teachings.
Good Post! Brenda. Please note that I do have admiration for Mr. Sungenis and his , Not By Faith Alone… series. Quality stuff.Oh my. And so the best answer for a traditional Catholic is to go to a place like Calamus, run by a Jewish (irony?) hypnotherapist, that pushes new age? We should pay them money to help them spread all that even more? Did you see the choices and how many of them are new agey?
Parapsychology, Holistic Studies, Hypnotherapy, New Age Studies, Regression and Reincarnation, Contemporary Spirituality.
Didn’t Mr. Sungenis say he picked CIU because they would take his geocentric paper? So he shopped it around really. There’s nothing wrong with the other college he started with is there? (Mary-something). But they wouldn’t take his paper and so he found a place that would.
He got a degree in theology with help from a scientist friend and a hypnotherapist? And if memory serves, he didn’t even do the researching on the fathers of the Church and geocentrism in that paper for his doctorate. That part of the work is going to come out in his next book. So how does a research theology doctorate get granted without really looking into the fathers? Kind of of a big thing to leave out.
Not too flattering any way you slice it.
Thanks, Seagirt!
And ditto on the Not By Faith Alone. He should go back to things like that.I can see why someone might think he supports SSPX now. I think he had one or two articles in favor of them.