tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5013339306349204192.post1521917878448095016..comments2023-11-05T22:39:34.996+10:30Comments on Classic Theology New: Getting Our Language RightWarren Huffahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06641632471131333680noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5013339306349204192.post-56710070923829991772010-09-03T17:20:34.548+09:302010-09-03T17:20:34.548+09:30Yes, the kind of humility that says we don't h...Yes, the kind of humility that says we don't have to remake the wheel should be easy, but comes hard. I remember realising that the traditional doctrine of the Incarnation was right, just so profound, compared to the concocted christologies I had been previously pulled toward.Warren Huffahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06641632471131333680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5013339306349204192.post-22549617676844286222010-08-25T07:34:35.423+09:302010-08-25T07:34:35.423+09:30i think you are right to name this as a problem of...i think you are right to name this as a problem of humility. Catholicism has always had about it the need for 'submission'. Unfortunately such dogmas are wide open to abuse and have indeed been abused by the power crazed. Is it fair(or wise) to ask the 'ordinary believer' to submit to orthodoxy when the guardians of same are often abusive in their use of power. <br />There is alsoStephan Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11194782441138561354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5013339306349204192.post-55846079232557136282010-08-21T21:42:58.223+09:302010-08-21T21:42:58.223+09:30Thanks Stephen, and absolutely correct. And the su...Thanks Stephen, and absolutely correct. And the supervising rector got up right then and there and corrected him by preaching a second sermon!<br /><br />The popularity of reincarnation is intriguing. it smells to me of the false humility of the salvation by works. The whole acceptance of an 'eastern' perspective is also interesting. The rise of the new spiritualities like theosophy etc Warren Huffahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06641632471131333680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5013339306349204192.post-55479620267130767762010-08-21T19:06:55.350+09:302010-08-21T19:06:55.350+09:30Hi Victor,
Thanks for reading the blog. I enjoyed...Hi Victor,<br /><br />Thanks for reading the blog. I enjoyed meeting and talking and I am sad you live on the other side of the world. My movement away from using the language and some perspectives that are not Christian has been going on now since i did my PhD. I remember starting my PhD intent on showing the inadequacies of the doctrine of the Incarnation and it ended up converting me! <br /><Warren Huffahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06641632471131333680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5013339306349204192.post-88424212602011002182010-08-20T19:05:06.299+09:302010-08-20T19:05:06.299+09:30I agree with the general sentiment. There is such ...I agree with the general sentiment. There is such a tendency to make the Gospel more 'palatable'.<br />This so often becomes denuding the Gospel of any cutting edge at all. I well remember an angry young priest who is well known to you telling me how his homily about Jesus's teaching about the danger of the pursuit of wealth was corrected by his supervising rector the following weekStephan Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11194782441138561354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5013339306349204192.post-8528774212983884022010-08-20T06:38:53.722+09:302010-08-20T06:38:53.722+09:30Hi Warren. Some of Hauerwas' article reminds m...Hi Warren. Some of Hauerwas' article reminds me of Eugene Peterson's more recent writing (e.g. 'Eat This Book' and 'Tell it Slant'/'The Word Made Flesh'). Being genuinely 'Christian' in language without resorting to cliché is a trait worth developing. Allowing the words of psalmist, writer and prophet, inspired by the Spirit, to mould us and our language soAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com