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Odds and ends for a Friday afternoon

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Lee M.

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Also, while searching for something else I came across this interesting document: A Theologians’ Brief on the place of the human embryo within the Christian tradition. Endorsers include Orthodox Bishop Kallistos Ware, Abp. Rowan Williams, Lutheran ethicist Gilbert Meilaender, and heavyweight Anglican theologians John Milbank and Oliver O’Donovan.

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3 responses to “Odds and ends for a Friday afternoon”

  1. Joshie

    should I be insulted that my two lengthy essays on the Pope didn’t get a nod on VI but a frightening piece I found about a schizo ex-con’s tainted love for Whoopi Goldberg did?

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  2. Joshie

    Regarding the letter from theologians, I must say their case is pretty weak. The only church fathers of “standing” and unimpeachable orthodoxy they are able to quote are Hippolytus (despite being an alleged anti-pope) and Basil the Great. Tertullian is a boardline case since he went montanist, but that probably didn’t have anything to do with his views on the issue. I was surprised they had the nerve to refer to the Apocalypse of Peter, a book which is rather later in date and strongly docetic in Christology. This to me speaks of the weakness of their case, at least as they have articulated it, trying to argue that the tradition has consistantly held their position.

    They deserve credit for constructing an historically informed narrative, good exegesis and careful critical analysis of the problem but in the end their evidence doesn’t support their conclusions. Verdict: Not Proven

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  3. Lee

    Sure, but a lot of people were posting about the Pope; who else is posting about depraved Whoopi Goldberg afficianadoes (sp??)?

    Anyway, where’s that rumination on the politics of Star Wars? 😉

    On the theologians’ brief, are you disputing that the church has historically beleived that life begins at conception, or that the church has historically held that the embryo should be protected even if “ensoulment” happens later?

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