tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20406961.post115923748148082390..comments2023-06-07T09:13:41.693-05:00Comments on Episcopal Chaplain On the High Ground: An Alternative to Hegemony in Anglican ArgumentsMarshall Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807749717320495495noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20406961.post-1159460005533074542006-09-28T11:13:00.000-05:002006-09-28T11:13:00.000-05:00Bob: Thanks for your comment.Jon: Thanks for you...Bob: Thanks for your comment.<BR/><BR/>Jon: Thanks for yours as well. I do agree with you. The hard part is knowing what is bath water dripping from a finger, what is finger tip, and what is finger nail. I do think that often it is in the encounter with "the other" that we are able, and indeed are required, to make that close examination once again.Marshall Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02807749717320495495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20406961.post-1159459533270878022006-09-28T11:05:00.000-05:002006-09-28T11:05:00.000-05:00Marshall -Very interesting post. Thank you for po...Marshall -<BR/><BR/>Very interesting post. Thank you for posting the pieces and for your comments. Good stuff to think about.Bob G+https://www.blogger.com/profile/04882646624853042759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20406961.post-1159295369120720652006-09-26T13:29:00.000-05:002006-09-26T13:29:00.000-05:00The one part that worries me is that by standing l...The one part that worries me is that by standing loose to supposedly objective answers we could find ourselves starting to reject the pursuit of truth. To use your image of the baby in the bath, it's important to remember there really is a baby and that what counts as part of the baby isn't something we can define however we like.<BR/><BR/>JonJonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13323740465436735706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20406961.post-1159286501106677992006-09-26T11:01:00.000-05:002006-09-26T11:01:00.000-05:00*christopher, I certainly agree. Moreover, I thin...*christopher, I certainly agree. Moreover, I think we need to distinguish between those accretions that might, as it were, obscure the baby; and those that clean or oil or anoint the baby. Not all acceptance of culture is syncretism.<BR/><BR/>What I think might be hardest for many is to accept that this has happened before, and we found it served the faith rather than destroying it. I mentioned the translation into two philsophical vocabularies. But I think that goes on all the time: that the theological task is to translate the truth of the faith into the contemporary vernacular, "the tongue understanded of the people." What we might lose of a small sense of "purity" is far surpassed by what we gain in our perspective of how God can speak to us in the world in our time.Marshall Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02807749717320495495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20406961.post-1159281504333155732006-09-26T09:38:00.000-05:002006-09-26T09:38:00.000-05:00I think this post-colonial thinking is key, and no...I think this post-colonial thinking is key, and not simply for thinking globally, but for cultures within a single national Church...after all, there is a developing queer Christian culture just as there is a an African American culture and both bring gifts and challenge the American Church. <BR/><BR/>When my partner and I sought out blessing, gathered friends and family, and a Benedictine sister to officiate, we were participating in that budding queer culture that takes so seriously our baptism that if priests and bishops won't do what needs to be done, we will.Closedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04752595488795781895noreply@blogger.com