Theological Notebook: Vatican criticizes and qualifies Jon Sobrino's work and method

[novak]

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith put out some pointers of where they concluded that Jon Sobrino's theology so under-emphaizes certain points that it threatens to produce an image of Christ or of the Church that is less than that of the faith. This perhaps isn't so surprising, as his theological method attempts to overtly base itself

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a question

[seraphimsigrist]

I was thinking the other day vis a vis

Re: a question

[novak]

No, I'm afraid I don't know the name of the man in question, but I can understand that one person trying to force a change in the universal liturgy of the Church is just the sort of poor integration of new experiences you point to as a problem. Now, of course, over the long run, the integration of new insights is perhaps more effectively done by the Church than any other human institution I can think of, but for those who demand Change! Now!, it is certainly an exercise in frustration. Your fellow seems to be an example, to go toward Aristotelian language, of "excess" in such integration, and in such a case the Church's very slow response time to alter the universal in the face of a new particular has to be seen as a great virtue and as a policy of wisdom. The opposite failing, the one of "lack" of such integration, is more problematic: and that's the slow acceptance at times of an insight which, in the end, becomes part of that universal awareness and teaching of the Church. Naturally, of course, everyone tends to think that