tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031852996869768738.post4877327676197123581..comments2024-03-28T08:30:20.260+01:00Comments on The Ugley Vicar: "When morality becomes literary criticism" - a Humanist take on the Unbelievable debateAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03590979027426082714noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031852996869768738.post-88146232389377974632011-05-20T09:25:38.346+01:002011-05-20T09:25:38.346+01:00Trying again, getting all the words in...
The art...Trying again, getting all the words in...<br /><br />The article is rather sad really. It states that "an old book is ambiguous" on a subject merely becase this is the opinion of the humanist commentator, not because there is anything ambiguous in what Paul actually writes there - and because the commentator doesn't accept God.<br /><br />Hmmm.Rev Dominic Stockford,noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031852996869768738.post-59962948469549049332011-05-20T09:22:02.269+01:002011-05-20T09:22:02.269+01:00The article is rather sad really. It states that &...The article is rather sad really. It states that "an old book is ambiguous" on a subject merely becase this humanist commentator, not because there is anything ambiguous in what Paul actually writes there - and because the author doesn't accept God.<br /><br />Hmmm.Rev Dominic Stockford,noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031852996869768738.post-48521251180382694822011-05-19T14:55:05.268+01:002011-05-19T14:55:05.268+01:00The title made me think that this article might ha...The title made me think that this article might have actually struck on something interesting. Unfortunately the author fails to understand that though multiple interpretations of a text might be "valid," that the same can be said about various ethical precepts. I agree, as does with the author, with the principles of freedom and dignity of all people. But this also requires acknowledging the complexity of ethical situations. Since the author is rather rigid here, I'll assume he's male. If the author believes that his own ethical interpretations are "infallible" - as he accuses Christina Rees regarding her interpretation of Scripture - he fails to see how "interpretation" is something not only applicable to the reading of texts, but also to ethical discernment. And this is one of the foundations of what we call bigotry.<br /><br />I had hoped that this article would be about the current tendency of "metamorphizing" everything, including Christ, as is now being taught in TEC.James in Belgiumhttp://videruntomnes.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com