Do you teach? Where? What is you Bishops name?What do you mean? Theology is a hermeneutical enterprise, not a game!
I would hate to see someone pretending to be a theologian on a Catholic site. The potential for abuse of trust is far too high. Validation is pretty simple … which diocese and which institution?Do you teach? Where? What is you Bishops name?
(1) YesDo you teach? Where? What is you Bishops name?
Ed, I’ll defer to Alec on this one, as he is the biologist, and would understand claims about information theory.It does not appear possible to add new, beneficial and functional information on the macro level. The fruit fly experiment only took the genetic material available and mixed it up but it did not add new information.Peace,Ed
Reggie, are you fundamentally not interested in theology?I would hate to see someone pretending to be a theologian on a Catholic site. The potential for abuse of trust is far too high. Validation is pretty simple … which diocese and which institution?
I’m not interested in heretical or bogus Catholicism – and that’s what passes for “theology” in our dying, secularized Catholic institutions of higher learning.Reggie, are you fundamentally not interested in theology?
By the way, your question had nothing to do with my post (except, yet again, to cover-up your claimed status in the Church).Reggie, are you fundamentally not interested in theology?
I’m not sure why you regard discussing theology in light of the contemporary world view as “poison.” By that definition, St. Thomas Aquinas was engaged in “spreading poison among the faithful” in the thirteenth century, as he subverted the Platonism in favor of the new found Aristotelianism.Thanks to Pope Benedict, more of these pseudo-Catholic teachers are being shut down every year, and they will no longer be able to spread their poison among the faithful.
When you become a Doctor of the Church, please let us know.I’m not sure why you regard discussing theology in light of the contemporary world view as “poison.” By that definition, St. Thomas Aquinas was engaged in “spreading poison among the faithful” in the thirteenth century, as he subverted the Platonism in favor of the new found Aristotelianism.
I cherish the same faith. But you want to keep the faith at 1850 (pre-evolution), while I want the same faith to thrive in 2009. I agree that the hostility to Catholicism on the part of the secular world is disturbing, and a lot of this hostility is based on prejudice and ignorance (Dawkins, et al.)– at the same time, I see some evidence that you are what you say you are – especially in the comments dripping with contempt for the faith that many of us cherish. I’ve seen it quite often. They must have mass-produced you guys somewhere.
When theologians are condemned by the Holy See for teaching errors, we’re on good grounds in referring to them as “spreading poison”. I would like to see condemned teachers like Frs. Curran or Kung recant their errors – they could still become saints that way.I’m not sure why you regard discussing theology in light of the contemporary world view as “poison.” By that definition, St. Thomas Aquinas was engaged in “spreading poison among the faithful” in the thirteenth century, as he subverted the Platonism in favor of the new found Aristotelianism.
Thomas was dialoguing with the Platonism that had served as the metaphysical foundation of Catholic theology since the first century. Aristotelianism came in as a breath of fresh air in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and St. Thomas and others adopted it with alacrity.St. Thomas was “dialoguing” with the 4th century BC. He was also a canonized saint (who referred to his intellectual work as “so much straw”). He fully understood the relative value of human inquiry versus the experience of God in the Catholic spiritual life.
Perhaps they will. Kung and Ratzinger had a meeting together.When theologians are condemned by the Holy See for teaching errors, we’re on good grounds in referring to them as “spreading poison”. I would like to see condemned teachers like Frs. Curran or Kung recant their errors – they could still become saints that way.
I don’t think I could, as I believe you have to be dead to be so honored.When you become a Doctor of the Church, please let us know.
Perhaps you are referring to a very limited scope of things when you say “philosophies” and “worldview”. But in the general case, your statement seems to indicate that Theology is somehow a Democracy. If the people vote for God to be X, then God is X (because X is currently the in-vogue worldview of God).All philosophies and worldviews are challenged eventually…
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…Theology has since then been in constant dialogue with the changing worldview, as it is today.
Whatever may appear, it is possible. You made three three points: new, beneficial, functional.It does not appear possible to add new, beneficial and functional information on the macro level.
I spent a whole five minutes looking at a blade of grass and it didn’t grow at all! It does not appear possible for grass to grow.The fruit fly experiment only took the genetic material available and mixed it up but it did not add new information.
It seems to me that being dead is not the only requirement.I don’t think I could, as I believe you have to be dead to be so honored.
And what does the Church say about the secular world? There is no ignorance involved. None. People like Sam Harris are fully informed when they speak of “the alien hiss of religious lunacy.” It’s their scientific minds that have told them there is no invisible man in the sky. It is their own imagination that tells them man invented god.I cherish the same faith. But you want to keep the faith at 1850 (pre-evolution), while I want the same faith to thrive in 2009. I agree that the hostility to Catholicism on the part of the secular world is disturbing, and a lot of this hostility is based on prejudice and ignorance (Dawkins, et al.)
On the other hand, when the secular world sees Catholics rejecting modern science in favor of the scientific worldview of 1850, it is not surprising that they should react with contempt. Some people bring into Catholicism (when they convert) Protestant Fundamentalist views about science and scripture tht have never bound Catholics.
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