Now THAT's interesting. Heidegger certainly had a strong influence on Tillich and Macquarrie, FWIW. I think Catholics and Orthodox view him with suspicion.
The seriousness behind my frivolity is that Aquinas is making a comeback, and certainly at Thomas Aquinas College he is VERY big (surprise, surprise). My spy there tells me they thought John Paul II was sort of radical.
Church of all believers? Sure. Exclusively the Apostolic Church alone? I can't go there. :)
Well, of course the winners writ ethe history and all that, but at least the NT canon was settled by those whom WE think of as Catholic -- and in response to other canons suggested by those who definitely were not. I get the feeling that you guys think of Christians in, say the 3rd or 4th century as going off in all directions, while i guess I think of almost the same thing but also the gradual arising, in fits and starts, of a central something or other around which the Church was slowly "organized", if you'll pardon the over-statement.
OK, I'll take that, thanks. From what I'm learning there are more than one from his cloth that would probably hate what they are known for today. Kind of like just thinking out loud one day and having it wind up on YouTube forever. That's tragic. :)
I get the feeling that you guys think of Christians in, say the 3rd or 4th century as going off in all directions, while i guess I think of almost the same thing but also the gradual arising, in fits and starts, of a central something or other around which the Church was slowly "organized", if you'll pardon the over-statement.
That's pretty reasonable. I think of many directions, but not all since there were some who went off in directions that could not be Christianity by anyone's standards. :) But of course the RCC came into being and became a major force in Christianity.
I saw the Pope land today, but more importantly I saw the clip of him on the plane before it landed. I thought it was a beautiful gesture and one that scored a lot of points. Good for him. :)