well I've thought about this for awhile I've listened to some youtube lectures of john Milbank and some debates his primary theological influences seem to be henri de lubac and Bernard lonergan but he's read his theology that's for sure a full librarys' worth and he falls to the side of catholic thinking and I gather he would be a card carrying catholic if his wife weren't a Anglican ordained chick and I think he is meaning that there's been this stretch in modern theology to address the ethical and moral concerns of a secular world which carries a serious and weighty skeptical criticism of traditional Christianity and it isn't working it can't work the effort itself creates a vacuum a space where sense and sensibility are well nigh impossible one side set on ripping to shreds and pretense to understanding that Christian theology might possess and the other side trying to pamper the vehement personal and civil rights concerns of special interest groups and people on the fringes...when 1% of the population can bring the church to a standstill and ramrod their personal issues through congress and the courts it creates an impossible atmosphere for well-meaning critical thinking which might challenge the ha ha ho ho ( I can't say it ) hom hom homo inane sex sex stuff silly human stuff not important at all and yet it gets center stage and calls into question or tries to the long understood wisdom of the past of course it is madness this rising up of the laity and their concerns most of whom are blind to the long weaving of themes for the good of everyone in the solid tradition of orthodox theology...I think that is what he means
theology by trying to become pertinent to the issues of the day has found itself pulled into a flushing toilet of human decadence and it can only hope for a plugged system so possibly it will spill back out onto the floor instead of being swept away forever in a flushing swoosh of despair
I may be wrong but I think that's the gist of his statement
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I wonder what he means by this?
well I've thought about this for awhile
I've listened to some youtube lectures of john Milbank and some debates
his primary theological influences seem to be henri de lubac and Bernard lonergan
but he's read his theology that's for sure a full librarys' worth and he falls to the side of catholic thinking and I gather he would be a card carrying catholic if his wife weren't a Anglican ordained chick and I think he is meaning that there's been this stretch in modern theology to address the ethical and moral concerns of a secular world which carries a serious and weighty skeptical criticism of traditional Christianity and it isn't working it can't work the effort itself creates a vacuum a space where sense and sensibility are well nigh impossible one side set on ripping to shreds and pretense to understanding that Christian theology might possess and the other side trying to pamper the vehement personal and civil rights concerns of special interest groups and people on the fringes...when 1% of the population can bring the church to a standstill and ramrod their personal issues through congress and the courts it creates an impossible atmosphere for well-meaning critical thinking which might challenge the ha ha ho ho ( I can't say it ) hom hom homo inane sex sex stuff silly human stuff not important at all and yet it gets center stage and calls into question or tries to the long understood wisdom of the past of course it is madness this rising up of the laity and their concerns most of whom are blind to the long weaving of themes for the good of everyone in the solid tradition of orthodox theology...I think that is what he means
theology by trying to become pertinent to the issues of the day has found itself pulled into a flushing toilet of human decadence and it can only hope for a plugged system so possibly it will spill back out onto the floor instead of being swept away forever in a flushing swoosh of despair
I may be wrong but I think that's the gist of his statement
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