Published by DWM at November 26, 2007
As many of you know, Janet has begun the discussion of S. Endo’s Silence over at deepgraceoftheory. Here at TLOU, we’d like to investigate some of the more technical aspects of the theology behind Silence. So today, through the magic of cut and paste, we’re going to direct your attention to Janet’s and my conversation that we hope to continue here.
First, Janet quotes my early comment, and then responds to it:
“Rather, I think of it like participating in the sacraments. Our relationship to God through the church is starved if we deprive ourselves of the sacraments. Likewise, if we refuse to participate in the world in a way that conforms to our end, we lose something of the sacramentality of being in the world.”
Yes, I agree with you you about this “participation.” I suppose this is why Father Rodrigues was willing to hear Kichijiro’s confession and have him live with him in his little community. Continue reading ‘The Sacraments and Silence’
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Published by DWM at November 22, 2007
Best wishes and prayers to all of you for a fun-filled and safe Thanksgiving. We certainly are thankful to God for all the many blessings we’ve received here at TLOU, including but not limited to: a baby, an accepted dissertation proposal, a wedding, an acceptance to a PhD program, a safe move, happy and healthy friends and their children, new clergy, friends writing autobiographies with hilarious stories, new friends… I could go on an on.
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Published by DWM at November 15, 2007
Cynthia from Per Caritatem has posted a paper of mine on de Lubac over at her blog. It’s something of a completion of a series I had begun here a few weeks ago. Head over to her blog and read it for me if you get time.
Thanks,
Dan
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Published by DWM at November 13, 2007
Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, ‘Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.
This morning, one of my professors related to the class that in his parish the deacon preached this last sunday. The Gospel, some of you may remember, was from Luke and was the story of the Sadducees posing to Jesus a particularly frightening situation re: Levitical law, but an even more perplexing problem to those who hold to bodily resurrection. Apparently this deacon reads in the passage, and especially in Jesus’ response to the Sadducees, an affirmation that we (Christians, I assume) are not of this world, and b/c we are bound to be like angels in heaven, this world and the corporeal matter not. I got a decidedly different message in my parish. Our sermon told us that the Sadducees were “diet evil” and a rather rambunctious crowd, merely interested in asking Jesus dumb questions like the above. Jesus in this sermon’s telling served a little more than a literary device to offset the Sadducees sophomoric logic. Continue reading ‘Sadducees and bad preaching’
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