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@KilledByCops: A Twitter Devotional
According to the FBI, local police kill Black people at least two times a week, on average. But other estimates put that number to around once per day. — killedbycops.org @KilledByCops There is a custom followed by many Catholics that … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Prayer
Tagged #FergusonOctober, police, prayer, racism, structural sin
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Redekop’s Mimetic Structures of Violence and of Blessing: as applied to the church and particularly to the sex abuse scandal
Vern Neufeld Redekop, “Mimetic Structures of Violence and of Blessing: Creating a Discursive Framework for Reconciliation,” Theoforum 33, no. 3 (January 1, 2002): 311–335. This outstanding paper first concisely describes structures of violence and of blessing (life-giving creativity) purely in … Continue reading
Posted in Ecclesiology
Tagged blessing, hegemony, identity, Redekop, sex abuse scandal, structural sin, thesis, violence
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Jottings on Sin: Relating feminist and mimetic hamartiologies?
I went on a database crawl last night looking for material by Mary McClintock Fulkerson, and have read lightly through a few papers that have prompted these still-embryonic thoughts about connections between the understandings of sin in traditional, feminist, and … Continue reading
Discursive Markers of Submission, continued
Mary Aquin and Mirabilis got into a terrific discussion of a suggestion I made in my post the other day about Healy’s article on authority in the church, and I thought it deserved its own thread. So go read those … Continue reading
Posted in Feminist theology, Moral theology
Tagged feminism, humility, pride, structural sin, uptalk
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Bedford on Practice and Discernment
I define “a practice of the Christian faith” as a purposeful, creative outworking of a sequence of steps that empower persons in community better to proceed [pro-seguir] along the way of Jesus Christ. Negatively, to be engaged in such a … Continue reading
Posted in Theology
Tagged discernment, hermeneutic of suspicion, practice, structural sin, thesis
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Progress, or Promise?
Dover Beach approvingly quotes Tom Wright on the language and rationale put forward by advocates of women’s ordination, opposing the language of “rights” and “progress” as inherently antithetical to the gospel, but potentially supporting women’s ordination in principle on the … Continue reading
Posted in Ecclesiology, Feminist theology
Tagged human rights, justice, ordination, sexism, structural sin
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Open Letter to NCAA and Penn State from a Catholic
Dear people, I am not a sports fan, but perhaps this gives me the same kind of useful outsider’s perspective that non-Catholics had on the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic church. The similarities in the two situations are, … Continue reading
Posted in Moral theology, Uncategorized
Tagged catholic, paterno, penn state, scapegoat, sex abuse scandal, structural sin
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Structural Sin and Moral Complexity
An interesting post at the Quixote Center takes a look at a recent falsifications of mortgage documents by banks in the context of structural sin: When I am faced with dishonesty and fraud on a systemic scale, I ask questions … Continue reading
Liars and Outliers and Moral Theology
Full disclosure: Bruce has been a dear friend of mine for thirty years, and I was an early reader of several drafts of this book. This is not a theology book — although it is in the top ten books … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Ecclesiology, Moral theology
Tagged evolution, examen, game theory, schneier, school for saints, security, sex abuse scandal, structural sin
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Personal Decisions, Global Catastrophes: Capitalism is Not Inherently Friendly to Human Life
Garland Grey at Tiger Beatdown writes eloquently about the danger of treating self-replicating, amoral systems as if they were a fit substitute for governance. The people who defend these systems imbue them with non-existant ethical faculties as if ethical choices … Continue reading
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