Posted on 12/12/2005 10:37:57 PM PST by churchillbuff
What religion is the writer? He seems to be sending up both Protestants and Catholics together.
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How about that for cogent analysis. Should I go see the movie or not?
Pray that Fr. Greeley drift towards Catholicism.
Andrew Greeley's e-mail address is agreel@aol.com
I noticed that too.
To me this was the gist of what he was trying to say:
**In his retelling of the Gospel in allegorical form, C.S. Lewis goes back to the miracle and morality plays of the Middle Ages, in a sense as if the Reformation never happened.**
"Thus a tedious and contemptuous article in The New Yorker equated the popularity of Lewis with his teaching of doctrines that appeal to evangelicals."
Guess the author has this article in mind
The Lion, the Witch and the Metaphor (Bizarre article on Narnia by the usual culprits): http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539312/posts
This man is both genius and prodigy to all questions, theologic and moral. One can only accept his near-divinity as our new savior and guide.
Perhaps if the "good" Fr. were to actually READ his Bible, inerrant, or not, he would notice that there is no basis in the idea that: "the rest of us will be vaporized on the day of the rapture". This is, of course, NOT the teaching of the evangelical church or the Bible, simply a fabrication, possible on his part?!
Furthermore, the evangelical church does NOT teach that belief in inerrancy of the Bible is a prerequisite for the Salvation of Christ. This is a further fabrication on the part of the author. Evangelicals DO, for the most part, believe in the inerrancy of scripture, at least, as originally imparted in the original languages.
That belief leads us to search scripture diligently for the truth of how God would have us behave. We find, in Scripture, that God wants us to accept the gift of His grace offered to us through the death of His Son on the cross. Christ died in our place taking upon Himself our guilt so that we might be redeemed into the Kingdom of God.
How this exactly works and why God loves us so much that He went to such lengths to redeem us is, in fact, a mystery. I will grant that such mysteries are a tradition we share with the Roman Catholic Church.
Embrace it as a summary of the biblical story? He understands evangelicals as poorly as do secular liberals.
I think the good man is guilty of wishful thinking, he needs to go to confession
No, we just like to see films once in a while that confirms our faith
"Father" Greeley is Catholic; he writes soft porn novels.
I trust your post was made with your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.
That's exactly what I was going to say!
I liked Greeley back in the late 70's when he was quite critical of Jimmy Carter. Then he became a multi-millionaire with his silly novels and became much too full of himself.
...very unusual. He's a political lefty, but he presents a good case against the paganism of deification of an artificial beast as allegory.
It wouldn't hurt for him to read the Catechism of the Catholic Church, either.
Go see it. Just don't buy a stuffed lion and start praying to it.
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