Posted on 08/18/2004 7:43:12 AM PDT by Stubborn
The following list of words and phrases are typically used by modernist theologians and lay people, in reference to Catholic theology/practice/attitude/concepts. Most of them are inherently vague and for that very reason are used by the modernists -- it is not clear just what they mean or when their meaning applies.
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This "all VII parishes are nutso" stuff is urban legend, mostly from the 100 or so examples found by the Remnant staff over a period of 20 years of searching.
It's the same 100 pictures, stories, etc.,--although now and then someone finds another one.
Broadsword, the Gospels don't print pictures of Christ. How do you KNOW he never smiled or laughed? Did He have a really sad childhood? Do you suppose that when those children approached him he gave them the "parental Eye?"
Good heavens, man--
have you ever tried something other than a personal attack? Why are you here?
Oh, that magic number of 7. I'm certain there are no children who reach the magical "age of reason" prior to, or after 7, but those who are 7 and are baptized will miraculously go to heaven.
There is really no way of knowing how many souls are in heaven or hell. All of this speculation is worthless, and not part of Catholic doctrine. "Dare we hope that all may be saved?" indeed.
Process was a perfectly acceptable term until A.N. Whitehead got a hold of it. His peculiar philosophy was a throwback to Heraclitus IMHO, and Reality was not substantial(Being) but was flux(Becoming). Therefore, temporal things were real rather than eternal things. His philosophy of course influenced theology (which is yet another way modernists have put the cart before the horse), most notably in Catholic circles in the works of Teilhard de Chardin.
The bottom line is that God EVOLVES. Contrast that to St. Thomas' truism that the immutability of God is His strength. Or the Scriptural text that asserts that God is the same from age to age. In practice, process theology attempts to keep us preoccupied with ever emerging novelties rather than keeping focused on the eternal unchanging Word.
We interpret rather than understand God's Word. We have come 180 degrees from the scholastics and have made theology the handmaiden of the various and sundry modern and "post-modern" philosophies.
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