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reen12
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The filioque. Wouldn’t Godhead have just as well been ‘defended,’
if it had been stated that this is a mystery that God chose not to address? “Defining” the order of procession in the Holy Trinity. Who proceeded from Whom?
Had there been Mothers of the Church, one of the ladies might have said “Don’t be ridiculous. That’s for God to know. Tell the bunch that’s contesting the point to go get a life. Dinner in 1/2 an hour. Don’t forget to wash your hands, before we dine. No, Henry, that’s not a religious ritual, it’s hygiene.”
I’m all for a married clergy. When you’re out there, working to
support the family, worrying about heating costs, shoes for the kids, and tax rates, one has no time to whip up ‘doctrines’ - thought of, in a quiet afternoon, in the clerical study.
Conditions ripe - for tresspassing on the mystery of Godhead.
The Orthodox were appalled.
Augustine abandoned the woman he’d had a child by, ‘got religion’
and became a bishop. He wouldn’t have been ‘dabbling’ in theology,
had he married the woman, and took an active part in raising his son.
He was elevated to ‘Father of the Church’ - when he couldn’t take
the time or interest to raise his own son. He was worried about
his relationship with God, don’t you know. All other relationships on ‘hold,’
til he got this ‘sorted out.’
Reminds me of the big-noise in the Enlightment period, of the 17th century.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - who was well known for his theories on raising children -
who had placed his own children in an orphanage, the better to have time to write
a work on how to raise a child.
La plus ça change, la plus c’est la même chose.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
reen12
if it had been stated that this is a mystery that God chose not to address? “Defining” the order of procession in the Holy Trinity. Who proceeded from Whom?
Had there been Mothers of the Church, one of the ladies might have said “Don’t be ridiculous. That’s for God to know. Tell the bunch that’s contesting the point to go get a life. Dinner in 1/2 an hour. Don’t forget to wash your hands, before we dine. No, Henry, that’s not a religious ritual, it’s hygiene.”
I’m all for a married clergy. When you’re out there, working to
support the family, worrying about heating costs, shoes for the kids, and tax rates, one has no time to whip up ‘doctrines’ - thought of, in a quiet afternoon, in the clerical study.
Conditions ripe - for tresspassing on the mystery of Godhead.
The Orthodox were appalled.
Augustine abandoned the woman he’d had a child by, ‘got religion’
and became a bishop. He wouldn’t have been ‘dabbling’ in theology,
had he married the woman, and took an active part in raising his son.
He was elevated to ‘Father of the Church’ - when he couldn’t take
the time or interest to raise his own son. He was worried about
his relationship with God, don’t you know. All other relationships on ‘hold,’
til he got this ‘sorted out.’
Reminds me of the big-noise in the Enlightment period, of the 17th century.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - who was well known for his theories on raising children -
who had placed his own children in an orphanage, the better to have time to write
a work on how to raise a child.
La plus ça change, la plus c’est la même chose.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
reen12