My other concern is Mautin’s notion of Christian leadership. If the priest faces the altar as a sign of leadership it means his back is to the people. For a Brit this is culturally rude -perhaps it isn’t in other places. But it codifies a sense of ‘Catch up with me.’ The leader on this… Continue reading Methinks he Protestants too much
Tag: liturgy
Why I am not a good ethicist
Author: Fr. Jonathan Tobias It would say, too, that the Islamization of Europe calls not for a Crusade, but for repentance … and this for the simple reason that any prophet, like Amos, would have no trouble recognizing the new Islamic Jihad for what it really is: another incarnation of the Assyrians, a harbinger and… Continue reading Why I am not a good ethicist
American Salvation: The place of Christianity in public life
Author: Albert J. Raboteau Source: Boston Review
The Church Everlasting
[Pope Benedict XIV believes] the church is not a product of human creativity. She does not become whatever the leaders and members wish to make of her. The church is prior to all human initiative. Ours is not to innovate, but to preserve and apply the church teachings. -Avery Cardinal Dulles I’m glad that Pope… Continue reading The Church Everlasting
New Worship Styles Un-Becomining?
Mark Galli, in his article Seeker Unfriendly on Christianity Today, writes on the accessibility of worship to the seeker or newcomer. Part of what I like about this article is that it is referring more to modern or contemporary worship styles as being inaccessible, which is exactly the issue the modern/contemporary style was to address,… Continue reading New Worship Styles Un-Becomining?
Moving Forward In Context
There has been a buzz lately (maybe only from my limited perspective), about how many people are going to the older Christian traditions, leaving the “in style”, “contemporary”, worship modes. I’ve gotten to the point that the “modern” forms of worship no longer bother me as they used, at least in the same way. On… Continue reading Moving Forward In Context
The Gulf Narrows A Bit
When Pope Benedict was still Cardinal Ratzinger, he was call “God’s Rottweiler” (and also, The Enforcer, Panzerkardinal , Cardinal No, and others). He has been tenacious in guarding the Roman Catholic Church, and trying to balance modern and traditional thought of theology. However, in this news story, and based on his words, those, such as… Continue reading The Gulf Narrows A Bit
And The Answer Gets An Exclamation Point
When I wrote “An Answer, Somewhat…“, I was just reading the Bible, and it popped out at me. Now comes news that the Roman Catholic Church will likely be putting Limbo out of business. I guess that ends that.
What was old, is new, or at least possibly okay…now
I was a member of a Lutheran church for a time, and learned a lot about schismatic views. Lutherans didn’t do a lot of things, not because they were unscriptural, but because the Roman Catholics did it. A lot of the “non-liturgical” churches seem to have much of the same perspective as they do not… Continue reading What was old, is new, or at least possibly okay…now
Are You Saved, or Not?
I had an interesting conversation with someone this weekend. The first thing asked, as noting differences between traditional Baptist and Nazarene teachings, was the view of salvation. Serendipitously, David Gushee, a Baptist minister, wrote in Christianity Today (see the article Jesus and the Sinner’s Prayer) about revisting the view of salvation. While I find his… Continue reading Are You Saved, or Not?