tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23189415.post6027549559484226345..comments2024-03-24T04:09:03.396-04:00Comments on The Cross Reference: Keeping the Catholic FaithJeffrey Pinyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08758581112217835988noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23189415.post-26978423318659466802009-01-09T13:45:00.000-05:002009-01-09T13:45:00.000-05:00These people are evidently not aware that these do...<B><I>These people are evidently not aware that these doctrines were hashed out in the early centuries of the Church.</I></B><BR/><BR/>They do know this.<BR/><BR/>But even as the decrees were originally issued in Greek and translated over time to Latin and English, the eternal concepts must be expressed in ways that make sense to people today. The task of theology is to bring forward ancient truths, faithfully, to each successive generation, in contemporary terms. Consider <A HREF="http://atheism.about.com/od/bookreviews/fr/Creed.htm" REL="nofollow">Johnson's book on The Creed</A>.<BR/><BR/><B><A HREF="http://books.google.com/books?id=o7e1PCoH1dIC&dq=loewe+christology&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=02w9vNwhYC&sig=0oDB0Rqb6Ibq6UrGHRtJmxDAqLk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result" REL="nofollow">William Loewe</A> of the Catholic University of America suggested that by treating the second and third persons of the Trinity as “symbols,” Haight ends up with “a Unitarian God and a merely human Jesus.” ... Haight’s fellow Jesuit <A HREF="http://books.google.com/books?id=YegPh4Kz2A4C&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=o'collins+catholicism&source=bl&ots=C9hsgGxSwr&sig=z5lEdZNps15o7h0taYe_g5BD5O8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPP1,M1" REL="nofollow">Fr. Gerald O’Collins</A>, widely considered among the church’s most eminent Christologists, told NCR in 2005, “I wouldn’t give my life for Roger Haight’s Jesus. It’s a triumph of relevance over orthodoxy.”</B><BR/><BR/>Who says we don't have faithful theologians anymore?!<BR/><BR/>Anyway, it's a wonder to me Fr. Haight hasn't been excommunicated.Moonshadowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11277057132720569896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23189415.post-4354502649928030202009-01-09T11:04:00.000-05:002009-01-09T11:04:00.000-05:00The people to the NCR are complete morons. That al...The people to the NCR are complete morons. That all there is to be said.Bonifacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10672810254075072214noreply@blogger.com