tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4925595176701846202.post1026019572015453210..comments2020-05-09T06:34:21.400-07:00Comments on The Truth Will Set You Free!: The Diet of Box Hill - Part IIIPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15189580002644810418noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4925595176701846202.post-88253614162580069912009-01-05T11:43:00.000-08:002009-01-05T11:43:00.000-08:00This response describes my basic form of Christian...This response describes my basic form of Christianity from my early 20s to my late 50s, going from one nebulous evangelical group to another. Until we landed in an Episcopal Church it never crossed my mind that the Church was anything but nebulous, and then it took 7 years to wake up to even the possibility of hierarchy being a part of truth. (the church was charismatic, so still nebulous!)<BR/>Had our son not become Catholic after the Gene Robinson fiasco, I may never have looked further. My husband is still upset with me; we now go together to the Church of Christ of our youth, while I go to Mass on my own time. These Nebulous People: they are harder to get hold of than the strongest Lutheran, because they long ago accepted what the above response is; you disagree with your church body, you have 50,000 places to find a kindred spirit, and if not there, start your own. Freedom in Christ is thus defined.<BR/>Thank you for your story.<BR/>J from LouisianaJuliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00311558227611878835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4925595176701846202.post-30188203221859552182007-04-21T19:47:00.000-07:002007-04-21T19:47:00.000-07:00Nevertheless, this is a more cogent response than ...Nevertheless, this is a more cogent response than you would have received anywhere else.<BR/><BR/>The summary of your friend's argument is:<BR/><BR/>1. You are asking for certainty, I can give you my own feelings.<BR/><BR/>2. We are where we have to be right now. You are meant to be here, doubts and worries and all, to minister within this tension, to serve both sides of a mysterious dialectic that you cannot even parse, let alone comprehend.<BR/><BR/>What you have here is obscurantism, albeit filled with love for Our Lord and Saviour. This is where our dear fellow evangelical-catholic types must live, and so they learn to make friends with language like "living in tension". As I spent 10 years in an evangelical-anglo-catholic anglican parish, where we considered ourselves (similar to you), "the best way to be catholic".<BR/><BR/>I am really enjoying your story. Thanks for sharing it!'<BR/><BR/>Warren<BR/>[ RC Convert, from Baptist/Brethren, then Anglican, to Catholic. Received in 2002.]Warrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04053407632823479165noreply@blogger.com