Comments on: God of the holes http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/06/14/god-of-the-holes/ A Church of Ireland Rector in rural Leinster Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:33:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ian Poulton http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/06/14/god-of-the-holes/comment-page-1/#comment-3981 Ian Poulton Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:40:26 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=5085#comment-3981 Physicists are better at cosmology than theologians! Physicists are better at cosmology than theologians!

]]> By: Póló http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/06/14/god-of-the-holes/comment-page-1/#comment-3974 Póló Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:31:00 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=5085#comment-3974 PS: nice analogy with the "God of the Gaps" of my day. Meant to mention it. PS: nice analogy with the “God of the Gaps” of my day. Meant to mention it.

]]> By: Póló http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/06/14/god-of-the-holes/comment-page-1/#comment-3973 Póló Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:27:39 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=5085#comment-3973 Courageous and rational post. It beggars belief that the RCC can't bring itself to redefine the "real presence" in this subatomic age. I had reason to refer to Bishop Robinson's "Honest to God" and Paul Tillich's "Shaking of the Foundations" in a recent comment on one of PaddyAnglican's posts. These were formative texts in my breaking out of the closed circuit logic of the RCC fundamentalism of my day. I'm a bit disappointed that Paddy's Daddy is allowing this rubbish to be propagated in his diocese, but then we can't blame Paddy for that. Incidentally, your name came up in a recent conversation with Irene Moiselle (neé Kane). Small world. Rath ar an obair (and for God's sake, keep up the blog), Pól Courageous and rational post.

It beggars belief that the RCC can’t bring itself to redefine the “real presence” in this subatomic age.

I had reason to refer to Bishop Robinson’s “Honest to God” and Paul Tillich’s “Shaking of the Foundations” in a recent comment on one of PaddyAnglican’s posts. These were formative texts in my breaking out of the closed circuit logic of the RCC fundamentalism of my day.

I’m a bit disappointed that Paddy’s Daddy is allowing this rubbish to be propagated in his diocese, but then we can’t blame Paddy for that.

Incidentally, your name came up in a recent conversation with Irene Moiselle (neé Kane). Small world.

Rath ar an obair (and for God’s sake, keep up the blog),

Pól

]]> By: Ian Poulton http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/06/14/god-of-the-holes/comment-page-1/#comment-3779 Ian Poulton Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:54:03 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=5085#comment-3779 I think truth is often 'ugly' in our perception because it refuses to be shaped by our desires. I think truth is often ‘ugly’ in our perception because it refuses to be shaped by our desires.

]]> By: blackwatertown http://www.forthefainthearted.com/2010/06/14/god-of-the-holes/comment-page-1/#comment-3776 blackwatertown Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:00:40 +0000 http://www.forthefainthearted.com/?p=5085#comment-3776 "Do you want the truth or something beautiful?" Oh dear. Can't we have both? Maybe we just need to redefine beauty? Or to see it properly? Re the visiting priest: What an oddball. (Sudden outbreak of lack of uncharity.) “Do you want the truth or something beautiful?” Oh dear. Can’t we have both? Maybe we just need to redefine beauty? Or to see it properly?
Re the visiting priest: What an oddball. (Sudden outbreak of lack of uncharity.)

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