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Juicy Bits from “Ecclesial Conversion after Vat2”
This 2013 paper by Ormond Rush crossed my feed today, and there were some bits that really caught my attention. For some context, 2013 was the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, and this short paper was presented at … Continue reading
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Tagged conversion, holy spirit, sensus fidelium, structural sin, thesis, vatican 2
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Wrestling with Milbank (via Burrell)
Burrell, David B. “An Introduction to Theology and Social Theory, beyond Secular Reason.” Modern Theology 8, no. 4 (October 1, 1992): 319–29. David Burrell presents an introduction to John Milbank’s constructive critique of secularism Theology and Social Theory to open … Continue reading
Children, Priests, and Scandal in Church
Here’s the story: on his way to the ambo (pulpit) to give his homily (sermon), the presiding priest detoured to approach “a family with several small children under the age of four who were sitting near the front of the … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Ecclesiology, Theological anthropology
Tagged children, factionalism, priests, reconciliation, scandal, sex abuse scandal, thesis
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Visualizing thesis, Chapter Three!
Turned in the first draft of the last sections of chapter three last night to my advisor, and tonight to my second reader. Woot!
Who constitutes the church? A hypothesis on clericalism, factionalism, and mimetic rivalry
I’m still working through the issue of mimetic rivalry between clergy and laity. Part of what’s going on is certainly factionalism. But then I tried to figure out, okay, so who exactly are in the clericalist and anti-clericalist factions? There … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-clericalism, clericalism, factionalism, mimetic doubles, thesis
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Clericalism, Anti-Clericalism, and Mimetic Rivalry
So on Friday, the 2nd reader for my thesis articulated something that he saw in my chapter section that I had not. In the particular bit of my paper he referred to, I had used the language of the ordained … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-clericalism, clergy, clericalism, laity, mimetic rivalry, thesis
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A Mimetic Doctrine of the Church: The Locus of Desire for Salvation
The first thing to be said about a mimetic ecclesiology is that it produces a very strong doctrine of the church. Not strong in the sense of triumphalism, but in the sense of essential: if human beings desire according to … Continue reading
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Tagged church, community of disciples, identity, liturgy, mimetic, thesis
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