tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post6024705620976763865..comments2024-03-22T11:37:52.668-05:00Comments on Byzantine, Texas: On communing children and the mentally handicappedByzantine, TXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-20194802588634959632020-03-20T08:52:04.245-05:002020-03-20T08:52:04.245-05:00It's not true that "the ancient church di...It's not true that "the ancient church did not practice infant baptism;" the most one can say is that it did not require it of the faithful. See <i> Infant Baptism in the First Four Centuries </i> by Joachim Jeremias (London, 1960: SCM Press).<br /><br />Of course, there is a vast literature on this topic, but it still seems to me that Prof. Jeremias' small book of 112 pages is the best place to start one's historical inquiry. Jeremias (1900-1979) was a relatively conservative German Lutheran academic theologian. Another German Lutheran, Kurt Aland, tried to refute Jeremias in his <i> Did the Early Church Baptize Infants? </i> (SCM Press, 1962) to which Jeremias responded with <i> The Origins of Infant Baptism </i> (SCM Press, 1963).William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09043433059401608468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-40710823486791439282020-03-19T11:08:19.107-05:002020-03-19T11:08:19.107-05:00Father,
The answer would likely incite uncharitab...Father,<br /><br />The answer would likely incite uncharitable polemics. I have sent my comment to Father Joseph Hunycutt and you may obtain it from him. He will have my email, too.<br /><br />In the case of dementia, as related by Athanasia, we do not know all of the facts concerning the status of her Aunt's organic mental deterioration. For example, some dementia patients will spit communion back out. Where it can be safely given so that the individual with the cross of dementia will not choke on the body of our Lord or spit it out, it may be given by RCs.James Ignatius McAuleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16170178446627560622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-27367409671938584872020-03-19T10:15:38.790-05:002020-03-19T10:15:38.790-05:00The ancient church did not practice infant baptism...The ancient church did not practice infant baptism. My understanding is that it came about because too many people were postponing adult baptism.People reasoned that they could "live it up"; then be baptized and have their sins washed away, but were dying before this could be accomplished.BorisJojicjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02796218761394313699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-52818714967192723982020-03-19T08:04:06.654-05:002020-03-19T08:04:06.654-05:00Am I missing something? By identical line of reas...Am I missing something? By identical line of reasoning, Roman Catholics should not be practicing infant baptism. A baby has no "basic understanding of what's happening".A readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00330876142449304359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-53091290222597472020-03-19T06:32:36.875-05:002020-03-19T06:32:36.875-05:00The RCC would not commune my aunt who had dementia...The RCC would not commune my aunt who had dementia because “she didn’t have the capacity to understand” what she was receiving. She was the woman who passed the Faith on to me and was devote her entire life. I was heartbroken by that.Athanasiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13107488973500025470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-53492644156099351032020-03-18T20:45:47.964-05:002020-03-18T20:45:47.964-05:00Fr. Alexis,
In short, I also am intrigued. From ...Fr. Alexis,<br /><br />In short, I also am intrigued. From a technical yet also practical witness point of view, it encourages us, I want to say "naturally", to see a larger picture of humanity/persons as existing *in a narrative* of meaning, being and existence, and time - all of which is larger and more human than mere metaphysics. As you are probably aware Zizioulas, Hierotheos, Yannaras and others have all dialogued/grappled with it and come to slightly divergent estimations of it. I have never taken a deep dive into its sources directly myself however outside of Kierkegaard who is a sort of proto-phenomologist.<br /><br />Lately I have been very interested in the work of J.P. Manoussakis and how he ties in a phenomenological account of Time and its meaning with the classical Greek/Christian synthesis around Creation and our embodied existence, 'telos' and eschatology. I hope to get past the Preface of his "The Ethics of Time: A Phenomenology and Hermeneutics of Change" during this shut it period!<br /><br />As a preacher, how has it informed how you speak/preach "practically" as they say?Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-25466227241315932602020-03-18T18:18:43.328-05:002020-03-18T18:18:43.328-05:00Jake,
There is quite a bit of merit in that; in f...Jake,<br /><br />There is quite a bit of merit in that; in fact it’s hard to deny that influence. <br /><br />Personally, I’ve continued to be intrigued by Phenomenology and it’s application in speaking about our Faith and the Sacraments. <br /><br />What are you thoughts on that?Fr. Alexis Baldwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15453923952666184098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-34692773041547772912020-03-18T16:21:49.418-05:002020-03-18T16:21:49.418-05:00On the first day of an upper level undergraduate c...On the first day of an upper level undergraduate class on Thomism, my professor said to the 20 or so students "only 1, maybe 2 of you will be able to to actually comprehend and 'do' metaphysics". At first I thought he was underestimating his students and displaying some sort of elitism, but I realized as the class went on he was right. Metaphysics always leads to a fundamental epistemological problem, usually 'solved' with an epistemic assent that is abstract in its very nature. What of those whose abstract reasoning is limited in way way or another, either inherently or by accident? <br /><br />When Realist Symbols (such as the Eucharist - ALL our Sacraments really) were transformed by the metaphysical turn in the middle ages to nominalistic "symbolism" the very nature of worship, our relationship to God, ourselves, knowledge, and the world changed. Tran-substantiation is but a poor attempt to glue together the Sacred and Holy back unto the world and our embodied selves...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-44755237152561817242020-03-18T15:33:38.778-05:002020-03-18T15:33:38.778-05:00I've never understood how RC communion discipl...I've never understood how RC communion discipline differs from Baptists' understanding of baptism. Samn!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14142811721903345946noreply@blogger.com