Tuesday, April 15, 2008

What can I say?

... this piece is quite a revelation to me: "Christianity Is Not an Intellectual System". (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Neoscholasticism is what I was taught in college, but my philosophical mentor, Edward Gannon, SJ, fortunately focused my attention on existentialism and phenomenology - and Henri de Lubac. So I find myself reading this and realizing how much on the same track intellectually I am with Pope Benedict. And yes, I agree with this: "... for Ratzinger, the integrity of Christian worship—and thus belief—is at stake when the liturgy's organic development of sacred actions, words, sounds, sights, and smells is interrupted. The result, as Ratzinger sees it, is akin to the apostasy of worshipping the golden calf—a celebration of the worshipping community itself, not of the true God." To say nothing of the fact that the result is aesthetically ghastly.


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