Some will see this and all such natural disasters as evidence against the God in whom we trust . . . Others will feel it necessary to defend the righteousness of God.
Providence is a tricky thing because one can easily over-define it to a point where we are simply chess pieces for God to move around the terrestrial board. To make matters trickier, one can also under-define Providence to a deistic level: God is merely an observer, having set events in motion with the winding of creation’s clock long ago. Neither of these definitions is satisfactory.
Doing theology” does not merely mean studying tradition, doctrine, and Scripture so that one knows about those things. Rather, theology balances fact and theory with the lived experience of God each of us has. All experience has meaning and provides insight for the journey. To stay either in the academic mode or the experiential mode would deny the wholeness of each person, God, and the universe.
If you happened to miss the screeching headline, “Episcopal Church unanimously passes orthodox statement of belief in Jesus Christ,” it was because it never appeared, but none the less the convention did pass such a statement!
The Vatican said Wednesday that Pope Benedict XVI’s decision moving the wartime pope Pius XII closer to sainthood was not a “hostile act” against those who believe Pius did not do enough to stop the Holocaust.
Grey drizzle for days. ~
Commute made tolerable ~
by egg nog latte.
In a couple of ways, Levi-Strauss reminds me of another famous Frenchman — John Calvin. He also changed everything in his time and place, and many to this day consider themselves his disciples. Calvin also saw a universal structure beneath all human order and society — and that God put it there.
The BBC has recruited a trio as unlikely as Tony Blair, Dolly Parton and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to explain the importance of faith.
Reducing scriptural truths to terse little aphorisms rarely proves fruitful.
Does the CDF regard Anglicans who enter into full Communion with the Catholic Church as having ceased to be Anglican (and hence as having become “former Anglicans”)? If so, then what can it possibly mean to “maintain an Anglican identity when entering the Catholic Church”?