Eeeuw.
Ya got the scenario of midwives screeching through the mud for midnight childbirth with all the trimmings (gender F); and there's the chilly dusty continuum of geology and architecture (gender M). Contrast with the original liturgical neurology of living bonds of connection and affection, a household with a Head.
Don't they all (to enter the home territory of contemporary revisionism) "feel" rather different?
Words matter.
UPI. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 30 (UPI) -- Leaders of the Presbyterian Church (USA), meeting in Alabama, have come up with 12 new phrases to describe the Christian doctrine of God in three entities.*
Instead of "Father, Son and Holy Spirit," worshippers may substitute "Compassionate Mother, Beloved Child and Life-giving Womb" or "Rock, Cornerstone and Temple," the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
John Knox, phone your office. The bairns are in distress. Pick up Hans urs von Balthasar and St. John Damascene on the way.
Stat.
*Incidentally, person is preferable to entitity since the latter can be something like those soulless corporations re-envisioners tend to dislike.
Hah! Lloyds, IBM, and Ben&Jerry's.
Yes, we know Lloyd's is not technically a corporation, but "no individual may do business directly with Lloyd's" was a parallel too provocative to miss.
Yup, the wordplay of such folk sure does "feel different."
The main difference is not the PC spin—these things come and go—but the mere fact that they think a naming of the Trinity is something we can invent rather than just receive. That's the essence of religious modernism, which is the antithesis of divine revelation.
Mark Wallace is a tad too "crunchy" for me.
Posted by: Mike Liccione | July 05, 2006 at 07:19 PM