Showing posts with label christology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christology. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Rolando Rodriguez on Trump's Appeal to White Male Fantasy: "The Image of Our Naked Brother Hanging on the Cross Is the Result of 'the White Male Phantasy' "

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A week ago, I posted some comments about David Rosen's recent Salon article  which argues that Donald Trump is appealing to a gr...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "If Christ Is Undiscovered Now . . . That Is in Part Because of Scandals Done in His Name, by Those Who Call Out His Name Most Loudly"

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James Carroll, in Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age  (NY: Viking, 2014):
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Quote for the Day: When Marginalization, Discrimination, Violence, and Hatred Are Dressed in Sheep's Clothing of Religious Zeal

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Brother Daniel Horan at his Dating God site writing about when Jesus broke the rules:
Monday, October 1, 2012

Remembering Vatican II, Remembering Jesus of Nazareth: James Carroll and Leonardo Boff

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Former priest James Carroll commemorates the 50th anniversary of the last ecumenical council of the Catholic church, Vatican II, by ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Andrew Sullivan on Jesus and His Wife Discussion: "Jesus Clearly Saw Women as Total Equals"

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Andrew Sullivan on the "Was Jesus married?" discussion:
Sunday, September 23, 2012

More on Discussion of Jesus and His Wife: Fred Clark at Slacktivist

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At Slactktivist, Fred Clark offers the best summary I've seen up to now of the theological implications of the discovery that Jesu...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Monkeying Around with Jesus: More on the Spanish Fresco Story

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And speaking of remaking Jesus in our own (?) image (I'm referring here to what I just posted about Jesus and his wife): the sto...

Sarah Morice-Brubaker on New Coptic Manuscript Discovery: Did Jesus Put a Ring on It?

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In the lines I wish I'd written category, Sarah Morice-Brubaker writing about the discovery of a fourth-century Coptic papyrus f...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Edward Schillebeeckx (1914-2009): An Appreciation, Part 2

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In the first part of my appreciation of theologian Edward Schillebeeckx, I noted that Schillebeeckx’s work in the areas of christology and e...

Edward Schillebeeckx (1914-2009): An Appreciation, Part 1

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Shortly before Christmas, the Catholic church lost one its most eminent 20th-century theologians. Belgian-born Edward Schillebeeckx, OP, a ...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

And More Synchronicity: Newman Again--Misappropriating and Misrepresenting the Facts

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More fascinating synchronicity: I learn this morning from blogger Terry Weldon at Queering the Church, an outstanding blog I read daily with...
Friday, September 25, 2009

A Reader Responds: Standing Newman on His Head

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One of the interesting experiences I sometimes have with this blog is an experience of synchronicity involving several other bloggers who ta...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The Church Turns East . . . And Back: Bishop Slattery of Tulsa Reorients Christendom

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Lately, several Catholic blog sites have been discussing an issue of burning concern to American Catholics. And it’s not the health care de...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Jesus's Solidarity with Outcasts in Light of Patriarchy's Abuse of Women

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And, to continue a theme in recent postings ( see here and here ) about the biblical and theological foundations of movements today to ques...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Towards a Post-Male Dominant Reading of the Life of Jesus: Jesus's Baptism in the Jordan

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And, as a complement to what I have just posted about Benedict's recent homily at Nazareth speaking of the transmission of "manly p...
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Benedict and the Dictatorship of Relativism: What Concern Lurks Behind the Mask?

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John Allen thinks (and I suspect he's right) that Benedict's animus against the christology of Roger Haight is driven by a fear of r...
Saturday, January 3, 2009

Continuation of the Inquisition: New Penalties for Theologian Roger Haight

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I began this day reading a posting by David Gibson on the Commonweal blog which says that the Vatican has added new penalties to those alrea...