One of the problems seems to be that folk want definitions of mystery. St Paul saw through a glass darkly. Confusions of explications and nuances may not be accessible to many. Categorical problems arise ...an opinion however well founded might be disrespected because someone wore a baseball cap!
Always surprises me when people overemphasize the definitiveness and clarity of Scholastic thought and formulations, too. As good as they can be, it makes you wonfer if they've ever actually tried to follow disputed questions between scholastics.
Did you get my donation? Thanks again, Richard. I find that every one of your videos fills-in something missing in my understanding of Theology. I completed 4 years of College seminary and 1 year of major seminary. Enough to teach HS Theology, but not much more. Unfortunately, family responsibilities required that I work 2 or 3 jobs at times, so I found it much easier and cheaper to get an MA in Education. It has served me well, but as I'm nearing retirement, I find that my thirst for Theology is growing again.
Yes! Thank you, Claude for your generosity! I am glad you're finding the videos helpful. I ca appreciate the thirst for theology growing. I've been blessed to study it formally for decades and yet it still grows. Especially after having to work a "regular job" for the last couple years to make ends meet. I hope to keep providing more content as best I can. People like you encourage me to do so, my friend!
Can you tell me when The Come Holy Spirit Novena practice and prayer started? Also, have you seen the prayer that pope Francis is asking us to pray? Every italicized name is a name of a church in Rome. Are we calling on those Churches? It is confusing what he is asking. Also, isn't the image called Our Lady of Perpetual Help? Our Lady Health of Sick brings up many different images.
I tend to agree with your general thesis. The only thing I'd stress more than you perhaps is modern man's proclivity to novelty. I've never read any of de lubacs works, but I have skimmed Rahner. Assuming those two were close, you'd have to forgive people who were concerned about the Churchs purity of doctrine if they held de lubac at arms length. I don't think its a stretch to say Rahner was formally heretical.
I would not say that de Lubac was close to Rahner, except insofar as they were both still quite reliant on St. Thomas. De Lubac was not fascinated by novelty. Rahner was more willing to engage modern thought and more open to trying to spin certain things from other thinkers to try to make it fit within the bounds of orthodoxy, when he probably should have just called a spade a spade. I have studied Rahner's philosophy and theology quite extensively. What aspect would you say is formally heretical? I am open to being convinced of that, but in my work with him, he's more guilty by association with others than in his own work. I think many of his followers probably are heretical, but I also think he would disagree with their presentation of his thought.
@@decluesviews2740 (This is Mirus) I read this article the other day which mentions some areas where Rahner dissented. www.crisismagazine.com/2013/the-balancing-act-of-karl-rahner-and-luise-rinser
@@decluesviews2740 Thanks for your reply. Just spitballing here; but wouldn't his 'Anonymous Christian' hypothesis fall within the bounds of formal heresy? Again, I've just skimmed. As an aside, I've only been a Catholic for 3 years. I'm a convert from so called 'Anglo Catholicism' in which my two years in seminary with them ironically opened my eyes to the true Church. So I'm a bit of a light weight when it comes to the myriad of ideas floating post Council.
@@jamesshaw6455 I've heard people suggest that, but Anonymous Christian isn't really any different than what Lumen Gentium says. I even heard Taylor Marshall's show on extra ecclesiam nulla salus recently, and by the time he added in all the qualifiers that Catholics must add, it wasn't really any different than Rahner. I'd be curious to hear what you've been told Anonymous Christian means. The article in the comment above is much more disturbing, and I had not heard of Rahner supporting the possibility of dissent on Humanae Vitae before. So that's conerning. I had heard him speculate about women priests (which of course I disagree with) but it was before that CDF letter had been published on it and long before JPII's letter on it. I never saw if he supported it after the CDF document. I would say that is material heresy. I might do a video on Anonymous Christian just for fun, but I'd like to hear what folks like you have heard about it first to see if it is accurate. Feel free to write here or submit via my blog: Sapientia Nulliformis on wixsite.
@@imrahilification Wow, that is a disturbing article. Unless I missed them (read on my phone), I would have liked full references to the quotes and paraphrases he made. I had seen one place where Rahner was open to women priests but it was before the CDF document that came out in the '70s and he was dead before JPII's Ordinatio Sacerdotalis. Still, it is materially heterodox, at minimum. I never heard anything before about Humanae Vitae from him, and I also never heard about the woman mentioned. Thanks for bringing the article to my attention.
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One of the problems seems to be that folk want definitions of mystery. St Paul saw through a glass darkly. Confusions of explications and nuances may not be accessible to many. Categorical problems arise ...an opinion however well founded might be disrespected because someone wore a baseball cap!
Always surprises me when people overemphasize the definitiveness and clarity of Scholastic thought and formulations, too. As good as they can be, it makes you wonfer if they've ever actually tried to follow disputed questions between scholastics.
Did you get my donation? Thanks again, Richard. I find that every one of your videos fills-in something missing in my understanding of Theology. I completed 4 years of College seminary and 1 year of major seminary. Enough to teach HS Theology, but not much more. Unfortunately, family responsibilities required that I work 2 or 3 jobs at times, so I found it much easier and cheaper to get an MA in Education. It has served me well, but as I'm nearing retirement, I find that my thirst for Theology is growing again.
Yes! Thank you, Claude for your generosity! I am glad you're finding the videos helpful. I ca appreciate the thirst for theology growing. I've been blessed to study it formally for decades and yet it still grows. Especially after having to work a "regular job" for the last couple years to make ends meet. I hope to keep providing more content as best I can. People like you encourage me to do so, my friend!
@White Chocolate Sell cars (Jaguar, Land Rover, and Volvo, but mainly Porsche).
DeClue's Views your conversations at work are probably interesting. Is there money in that industry? Love the videos.
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Can you tell me when The Come Holy Spirit Novena practice and prayer started? Also, have you seen the prayer that pope Francis is asking us to pray? Every italicized name is a name of a church in Rome. Are we calling on those Churches? It is confusing what he is asking.
Also, isn't the image called Our Lady of Perpetual Help? Our Lady Health of Sick brings up many different images.
Honestly, I don't know. It isn't really related to the topic of this video, but if I can find the time, I'll let you know. Thanks for watching!
@@decluesviews2740 Thanks so much.
I tend to agree with your general thesis. The only thing I'd stress more than you perhaps is modern man's proclivity to novelty. I've never read any of de lubacs works, but I have skimmed Rahner. Assuming those two were close, you'd have to forgive people who were concerned about the Churchs purity of doctrine if they held de lubac at arms length. I don't think its a stretch to say Rahner was formally heretical.
I would not say that de Lubac was close to Rahner, except insofar as they were both still quite reliant on St. Thomas. De Lubac was not fascinated by novelty. Rahner was more willing to engage modern thought and more open to trying to spin certain things from other thinkers to try to make it fit within the bounds of orthodoxy, when he probably should have just called a spade a spade. I have studied Rahner's philosophy and theology quite extensively. What aspect would you say is formally heretical? I am open to being convinced of that, but in my work with him, he's more guilty by association with others than in his own work. I think many of his followers probably are heretical, but I also think he would disagree with their presentation of his thought.
@@decluesviews2740 (This is Mirus) I read this article the other day which mentions some areas where Rahner dissented. www.crisismagazine.com/2013/the-balancing-act-of-karl-rahner-and-luise-rinser
@@decluesviews2740 Thanks for your reply. Just spitballing here; but wouldn't his 'Anonymous Christian' hypothesis fall within the bounds of formal heresy? Again, I've just skimmed. As an aside, I've only been a Catholic for 3 years. I'm a convert from so called 'Anglo Catholicism' in which my two years in seminary with them ironically opened my eyes to the true Church. So I'm a bit of a light weight when it comes to the myriad of ideas floating post Council.
@@jamesshaw6455 I've heard people suggest that, but Anonymous Christian isn't really any different than what Lumen Gentium says. I even heard Taylor Marshall's show on extra ecclesiam nulla salus recently, and by the time he added in all the qualifiers that Catholics must add, it wasn't really any different than Rahner. I'd be curious to hear what you've been told Anonymous Christian means. The article in the comment above is much more disturbing, and I had not heard of Rahner supporting the possibility of dissent on Humanae Vitae before. So that's conerning. I had heard him speculate about women priests (which of course I disagree with) but it was before that CDF letter had been published on it and long before JPII's letter on it. I never saw if he supported it after the CDF document. I would say that is material heresy. I might do a video on Anonymous Christian just for fun, but I'd like to hear what folks like you have heard about it first to see if it is accurate. Feel free to write here or submit via my blog: Sapientia Nulliformis on wixsite.
@@imrahilification Wow, that is a disturbing article. Unless I missed them (read on my phone), I would have liked full references to the quotes and paraphrases he made. I had seen one place where Rahner was open to women priests but it was before the CDF document that came out in the '70s and he was dead before JPII's Ordinatio Sacerdotalis. Still, it is materially heterodox, at minimum. I never heard anything before about Humanae Vitae from him, and I also never heard about the woman mentioned. Thanks for bringing the article to my attention.