Father AKMA graciously has pointed me to some commentary on his work that might interest you. Bls often says that some of the best theology is being done on the blogs, but I am heartened to see one among the relatively small number of theologians in our church trying to engage the church on this issue. I am sure there are others. I wonder if and why they have been shut out of the debate.
The first piece is an essay on the last chapter of Faithful Interpretation like a fascinating essay, very resonant with many of the conversations that go on in our particular neighborhood. I, of course, have been reading Romans lately, so I think one solution to the issue of our privy members is that the virtuous and godly manner of life is the one in which they are offered to God: either directly in the kenotic signs present in matrimony and fratrimony/sororimony or indirectly in which we forgo their use for a time or maybe even permanently in order that our other members may praise God all the more. The common critique of the mystical understanding of sexually intimate human relationships is that it is dismissive of the bodies God created. But we are likewise dismissive of the invisible things which God also made when we restrict our use of our members only to visible ends: a key failing of the natural law tradition.
He also sent me another link, but it's tricky to load. The only solution I suppose is to give myself Faithful Interpretation as an Easter present.
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Looks good. It sounds like some other arguments...ahem....points to the neighborhood before mentions, that have been made of late.
I just reread Volf. Let's just say his work is quite helpful for a thinker like myself who refuses to abstract human persons. He moves this to thinking about the Church through Trinitarian theology. This work has helped clarify what my last two chapters for my dissertation must address, and gives me some close to my thesis.
He also develops an understanding of ecclesial rights that is quite important given my little harangue in my comment to your last post.
Wow - I just wrote the same thing on my blog, almost point for point.
Maybe it's a convergence of some sort? And maybe this whole sorry episode is really meant to be the wellspring of something better and more important than the very surface "problem" it's been so far?
That would be great, wouldn't it?
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