by cutsinger | Nov 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
No, I’d not in fact heard of the formulation you quote from Father John Romanides: “If the Church were a factory, its product would be relics.” And no, I wasn’t thinking of things in quite so osteopathic a way when I spoke in my last post about...
by cutsinger | Nov 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
In the American South where I teach, the question comes up much less frequently, I expect, than in your part of the world. But yes, there are certainly a few people here, including the occasional student, who claim to be practicing “pagans”. Obviously, the...
by cutsinger | Nov 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
Yes, my students too are always quite puzzled—and often worried that I mean to undermine their faith—when I tell them there are some things even God can’t do. In my Theology course the issue first arises when, in lecturing on the doctrine of creation...
by cutsinger | Oct 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
What is my “political stance”? Students often ask me this question, especially around election time. It’s clear to them, of course—as I’m sure it is to you—that I’m no liberal, or not at least in the way that describes the...
by cutsinger | Oct 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
You say you’ve felt a “fundamental resistance” to the Christian form, you’re “lukewarm” toward its theology, and you sense the teachings of Islam may conform more closely to your sense of the Divine Presence within the natural...
by cutsinger | Sep 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
“Weird, floating feelings” are not the summum bonum, as you obviously know. Indeed the Fathers stress that feelings as such, of whatever kind or modality, are at best irrelevant, and sometimes dangerous. It’s a mistake in any case to put too much...
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