tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post114700888770537011..comments2024-03-25T13:40:30.747-04:00Comments on Faith and Theology: What is heresy?Ben Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1147284003868892802006-05-10T14:00:00.000-04:002006-05-10T14:00:00.000-04:00Hi Randy, Sorry if you took my post as contradicti...Hi Randy, <BR/><BR/>Sorry if you took my post as contradicting you. In my cack-handed way I was really only trying to emphasise your point! "Heresy", "blasphemy" - we'd certainly agree on "crap"!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1147265186688110952006-05-10T08:46:00.000-04:002006-05-10T08:46:00.000-04:00The "Da Vinci Hoax" is not a heresy, it is an idio...The "Da Vinci Hoax" is not a heresy, it is an idiocy, certainly mischievous, possibly malign; but to call it a heresy would be to pay it an unintended compliment. <BR/><BR/>Because the "great" heretics have always been dedicated and serious-minded Christians who wrote in defence of the faith; indeed, they have often been theological conservatives. <BR/><BR/>Interestingly, one of the conclusions that Rowan Williams draws in his magisterial study <I>Arius</I> (1987, 2001) is that heresy is usually a form of ossified tradition, and, conversely, that orthodoxy is not a "theology of repetition" but a dynamic process inevitably involving "conceptual innovation", "continuity [being] something that [has] to be re-imagined and recreated" in every age.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1147132498621185502006-05-08T19:54:00.000-04:002006-05-08T19:54:00.000-04:00Theologically speaking, I think of heresy as a pre...Theologically speaking, I think of heresy as a premature rush to conclusions, an inability to wait for the difficult to disclose itself; as a captivity to conventional or fashionable thought-forms; and as an aesthetic disability, a failure of imagination, a kind of beauty-blindness.<BR/><BR/>Ecclesiastically speaking, however, right on the suspicious hermeneuticists who disclose the deployment of the rhetoric of heresy in what are discourses of power as much as knowledge!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1147125861700579222006-05-08T18:04:00.000-04:002006-05-08T18:04:00.000-04:00What the firecracker are you implying my dear fell...What the firecracker are you implying my dear fellow? Moi, a heretec? You haven't talking to any of those Southern Presbyterians have you?Michael F. Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09713482855679578651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1147103804476368982006-05-08T11:56:00.000-04:002006-05-08T11:56:00.000-04:00Actually, Mike, the heresies are not nearly so com...Actually, Mike, the heresies are not nearly so common now that <I>you</I> have left the department....<BR/><BR/>;-)Ben Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1147103607513941142006-05-08T11:53:00.000-04:002006-05-08T11:53:00.000-04:00Ben, I would have thought that by being in the UQ ...Ben, I would have thought that by being in the UQ religious studies dept. manifestations of heresy would have been frequent and obvious :-)Michael F. Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09713482855679578651noreply@blogger.com