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Two Spanish theologians rapped for relativism
Posted on Mar 10, 2008 03:02am CST.By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
New York
Within Pope Benedict XVI’s broad campaign to affirm traditional Catholic identity, the top doctrinal priority falls in the arena of Christology, meaning the uniqueness of the salvation won by Christ and mediated through the Catholic church. The pope and his advisors fear a sort of religious relativism in which Christ is seen as one among many saving figures, and the church as one among many valid paths of salvation.
An authentic politic of hope ... with an afterword by Saint Nobody
Posted on Mar 10, 2008 06:06am CST.| El Rio Debajo El Rio: The river beneath the river, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés | |
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Hope. Hope seems to have broken out in the U.S. electorate; hope of a kind many have not seen since the end of World War II with its estimated death and maiming toll of more than 70 million people, equal to more than half the 1945 population of the United States.
The hope message of presidential candidates has become a call and response song between contenders and voters, complete with drums and chanting. This “mass hope” appears to have created a collective energy that can move a moraine overland, pushing everything in its path ahead of it, accumulating, growing, carrying an almost evangelical vigor similar to the Great Awakenings of the last many centuries.
