Comments on: Sadducees and bad preaching http://www.thelandofunlikeness.com/2007/11/13/sadducees-and-bad-preaching/ Catholic Anglican Reflections on Theology and Culture Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:33:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Davis http://www.thelandofunlikeness.com/2007/11/13/sadducees-and-bad-preaching/#comment-422 Davis Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:50:14 +0000 http://www.thelandofunlikeness.com/2007/11/13/sadducees-and-bad-preaching/#comment-422 I wonder if they were both really prepared to preach on a difficult - from our 3rd Millennium POV - text? We are today so far from worrying about whether we'll be with a -particular- loved on in the next life, but are rather stuggling to deal with the very existence of a life in the world to come. In a way the Sadducees/Pharisees dilemma seems to mirror the difficult situation in Anglicanism. We are always dueling it seeems rather than rejoicing in the promise of the Resurrection. I wonder if they were both really prepared to preach on a difficult - from our 3rd Millennium POV - text? We are today so far from worrying about whether we’ll be with a -particular- loved on in the next life, but are rather stuggling to deal with the very existence of a life in the world to come.

In a way the Sadducees/Pharisees dilemma seems to mirror the difficult situation in Anglicanism. We are always dueling it seeems rather than rejoicing in the promise of the Resurrection.

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