Thursday Theological Inquiry
I’ve been told that I know shit about theology by one who, being a priest impressively learned in the subject, would know. Nevertheless, I would like to begin weekly posts offering propositions from that...
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The Cloister of the Universe
Orthodoxy has it that God is all powerful–omnipotent–and yet the story remembered and retold in the Paschal Triduum that begins this evening–Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday–speaks of a weak God, a figure...
Gospel Power Plays
Richard Beck of Experimental Theology reads Jesus’s statement “Call no man on earth father” as an attack upon patriarchal power structures and upon power plays in general: So the issue isn’t really about gender,...
Echoes on the Road
“What are we willing to suffer so that love might heal the wounds of humanity and transform them into the glory of God? Only when we can exit our private lives and enter into...
Pacifism: Its Moral Value and Insufficiency
As an action aimed at social betterment, pacifism–the refusal to return violence with violence–almost always fails miserably. In his essay “Non-violent Man and History,” philosopher Paul Ricoeur, himself a pacifist, shined a light on...
