In a March 28 article on the present plight of the Pope and priestly pedophilia (wow, I didn’t intend that alliteration!), the NEW YORK TIMES wrote: “As archbishop, Benedict expended more energy pursuing theological dissidents than sexual predators.” They’re referring to the early 80s, when Pope Benedict was Cardinal Ratzinger presiding over the diocese of Munich. [...]
Posts under ‘Faith’
Passion Allergy?
I came across a statement in Terry Eagleton’s Reason, Faith, and Revolution (highly recommended!) that rang true to my experience here at Union Theological Seminary: “Some postmodernists suspect that all certainty is authoritarian. They are nervous of people who sound passionately committed to what they say.” (p. 136) What Eagleton is saying applies, I think, [...]
“I believe in order to understand”
The following three statements, from three different people, make sense of one another: Pascal: We must love things before we can know them. Kierkegaard: A believer is someone in love. St.Anselm: I believe in order to understand. To really understand something we have to be in a relationship with it, involved with it, to some [...]
Revelation?
“The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us.” John Henry Newman When the heart is so reached, an old fashioned, theological word [...]
