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Aug. 16th, 2009 03:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafA couple of good newspaper articles on matters theological:
Firstly, theNew York Times New Yorker on Portrayals of Judas - I share the writer's bafflement at the enthusiasm for the Gospel of Judas, because really, Jesus as portrayed in that text is not someone I'd wish to spend ten minutes with, let alone love and worship.
And, more seasonally, a nice if light-weight piece from the Times' Credo colunm by Catherine Fox on Mary and motherhood. (I am baffled by Marianism. Having been brought up a Baptist, I’ve simply got no instinct for it; and so I was nonplussed when an Anglo-Catholic assured me recently, tears in his eyes: “I love our Lady. I love our Lady!” Admittedly, this was under circumstances where an ordinary man might be saying: “You’re my best mate, you are, I’ll never forget you.” Quite so....)
Firstly, the
And, more seasonally, a nice if light-weight piece from the Times' Credo colunm by Catherine Fox on Mary and motherhood. (I am baffled by Marianism. Having been brought up a Baptist, I’ve simply got no instinct for it; and so I was nonplussed when an Anglo-Catholic assured me recently, tears in his eyes: “I love our Lady. I love our Lady!” Admittedly, this was under circumstances where an ordinary man might be saying: “You’re my best mate, you are, I’ll never forget you.” Quite so....)