Comments on: Australian Jesuit sees a broad crisis of ‘mattering’ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/04/28/australian-jesuit-sees-a-broad-crisis-of-mattering/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Sun, 03 May 2020 20:58:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 By: Gwyn https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/04/28/australian-jesuit-sees-a-broad-crisis-of-mattering/#comment-57388 Sun, 03 May 2020 20:58:34 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=21114#comment-57388 ‘Theatre of God’s revealing’? & ‘Crisis of mattering’? The listener is left begging for direct, clear and uncontrived rhetoric.

‘There is no way to God. God is the way.’ I wonder how Fr Calder squares this assertion with the very different message of the Gospel, with Christ’s own words ‘I am the way, the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me.’

As the previous poster noted above, this is an inversion.

]]> By: Gregory https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/04/28/australian-jesuit-sees-a-broad-crisis-of-mattering/#comment-57310 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:43:17 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=21114#comment-57310 I think this is saying that because God became human then to be Christian we should encompass all humanity. So, connecting the ideas of imago Dei and the homeostatic union within the Incarnation we can then impute that to all humanity, thus to be human is to be Christian, to be Christian is human. QED?

But that’s just a starting point on natural law and human dignity isn’t it? Or maybe a case for fraternity based on mutual existence?
But isn’t this all inverted? There are plenty of ideas on being human that don’t involve Christianity, just look out a window.

To be Christian and to be a saint works the other way around doesn’t it, i.e. acknowledging fallen nature, brokenness, and recognizing the imitation of Christ and receptivity to grace as the way to salvation and divinisation?

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