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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Tears for Mt. St. Agnes
It must have been about a dozen years ago, when I was just discovering my calling for theology. It was late one night, and I was surfing the search engines, as you do, going from one link to another, exploring. … Continue reading
A Feminist Critique and Appropriation of Mimetic Theory
The move from mimetic theory to mimetic theology is an ongoing effort which involves the appropriation of the insights of mimetic theory as the hermeneutical lens through which to read the bible and other theological sources.[1] Mimetic theology is thus … Continue reading
Posted in Feminist theology
Tagged Alison, carr, Girard, intersectionality, nowak, schwager, thesis, vasko
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Doran on Lonergan and Girard
Robert Doran, “The Nonviolent Cross: Lonergan and Girard on Redemption,” Theological Studies 71 (2010): 46–61. Doran correlates Lonergan’s Law of the Cross with Girard’s anthropological insights, arguing that Girard’s mimetic theory provides the psychic, although not the spiritual, data corresponding … Continue reading
Posted in Moral theology, Theological anthropology
Tagged Girard, lonergan, moral evil, paschal mystery, systematics, thesis
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Francis: the bishop and the flock
The bishop has to be among his people in three ways. In front of them, pointing the way; among them, keeping them together and preventing them from being scattered; and behind them, ensuring that no one is left behind, but … Continue reading
Skeletons
In telling our stories, both personal and church stories, what is needed every now and then is the courage to remove the skeletons that are within us and bury them. I repeat that what is needed in both our personal … Continue reading
Fasting as Embodied Prayer
Ivy Helman has written on fasting and feminism over at the Feminism and Religion blog, and my response grew into a post of its own. She raises the following concerns about religious fasting: Religious fasts regularly praise the virtues of … Continue reading
Sisterhood, the Foundation and Pathway to Peace
The following is not quite what was reported by the Vatican news service on August 1: “Sisterhood, the foundation and pathway to peace”. This is the theme of the 47th World Day of Peace, the first during the pontificate of … Continue reading
Gaudete Theology 