M
MysticMissMisty
Guest
Salvete, omnes!
(Again, apologies if this is posted under the wrong forum. Please move if necessary.)
It would seem, there are many questions that past generations of Christians, including Church Fathers, many Saints and scholars, have answered which we today completely reject, in many cases, as too strict and, indeed, wrong.
I am thinking of, say,
a) including eating “fancy foods” or “delicacies” within the definition of “gluttony” or at least as not right.
b) not associating with non-Christians, either at all or as friends/close friends
and many others besides which I am sure others could suggest here.
Today, most if not all of us say that eating fancily, within reason, is perfectly fine.
Today, we do this with so many other issues besides which I am sure others could point out here.
Many of us say that it is just fine to associate with non-Christians and even to have even close Christian friends.
But, could so many past generations of Christians have been too “strict” or even utterly wrong?
As a kind of “aside” question, what of this and the “sensus fidei/fidelium”? How does that figure into all this? Was the culture of the time either within the Church and/or without influencing many of these Christians into being too “strict”? Or, rather, is the culture of our own day influencing us into being too lax? Can a “sensus” be attributed to either of these cases? If so many ofthem can be credited with being wrong or too “strict”, what so influenced so many of them to be this way?
Discuss.
Gratias.
(Again, apologies if this is posted under the wrong forum. Please move if necessary.)
It would seem, there are many questions that past generations of Christians, including Church Fathers, many Saints and scholars, have answered which we today completely reject, in many cases, as too strict and, indeed, wrong.
I am thinking of, say,
a) including eating “fancy foods” or “delicacies” within the definition of “gluttony” or at least as not right.
b) not associating with non-Christians, either at all or as friends/close friends
and many others besides which I am sure others could suggest here.
Today, most if not all of us say that eating fancily, within reason, is perfectly fine.
Today, we do this with so many other issues besides which I am sure others could point out here.
Many of us say that it is just fine to associate with non-Christians and even to have even close Christian friends.
But, could so many past generations of Christians have been too “strict” or even utterly wrong?
As a kind of “aside” question, what of this and the “sensus fidei/fidelium”? How does that figure into all this? Was the culture of the time either within the Church and/or without influencing many of these Christians into being too “strict”? Or, rather, is the culture of our own day influencing us into being too lax? Can a “sensus” be attributed to either of these cases? If so many ofthem can be credited with being wrong or too “strict”, what so influenced so many of them to be this way?
Discuss.
Gratias.