tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post113138196877633277..comments2023-12-17T16:13:06.670-05:00Comments on In a Godward direction: The Myth of the Catholic ChurchTobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-1131571087697120702005-11-09T16:18:00.000-05:002005-11-09T16:18:00.000-05:00Amen brother!Here's one for saying the Body of Chr...Amen brother!<BR/><BR/>Here's one for saying the Body of Christ has to do with more than the work of men...<BR/><BR/>JQ +Fr. Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04352732949112649949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786565.post-1131429526985648142005-11-08T00:58:00.000-05:002005-11-08T00:58:00.000-05:00Fr. Haller, These claims are indeed problematic in...Fr. Haller, <BR/><BR/>These claims are indeed problematic in such either/or, graspable thinking. In such a way of thinking, someone is wrong, rather than we are all wrong and living into...<BR/><BR/>Catholicity is a gift to us from G-d shown to us in Christ, not something we do, but something the Spirit lives us into and it is a gift we have had and are and will be. <BR/><BR/>Particular Christian bodies participate to a greater or lesser degree in catholicity, but the fullness of catholocity is eschatological and an ever increasing participation in the divinized humanity of Jesus which is humanity, our world, and all of Creation one as G-d is one, not something we can grasp or can hold onto as if once for all. Indeed grasping often leads to reduction in catholicity. <BR/><BR/>The Articles of Religion have some good thoughts on this, especially concerning loss of catholicity. <BR/><BR/>This is why branch theories are suspect, as are any claims to our selves, rather our catholicity must point to that Divine Community and only to that degree are we catholic. Only to that degree to we live into the eschatological reality, which is this world complete. <BR/><BR/>As such at times, the world has shown forth catholicity moreso than the Church, for the catholicity of the Church is ultimately showing forth the entirety of Creation complete and this is already at work in the world to which we as Church point in our Divine Service. <BR/><BR/>BTW: See my latest response at the propoganda box given a full assertion that G-d is gendered male. I pulled out Gregory Nazianzus.Closedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04752595488795781895noreply@blogger.com