AKMA is blogging about how one enters into dialogue without modernist binary polemics. I like what he is after. I just hope it is not misconstrued as "just trying to be nice.
Family Letter is working through issues of inclusive language. Is this gutsy for a curate? Maybe it is. I am interested in where the conversation will go.
Skandalon is working through modalism and the failing of some attemots to avoid patriarchal language. What she has suggested comes from reading Coakley's take on Gregory of Nyssa.
In his seventh Homily, the mother of the groom is associated with the Father, and Gregory explains that the names 'father' and 'mother' are effectively the same and quotes Galatians 3:28. Coakley states that this linguistic play with gender is not a rhetorical flourish, but that Gregory is showing us that "gender stereotypes must be reversed, undermined and transcended if the soul is to advance to supreme intimacy with the trinitarian God."This is fun.
Fiendish Plot is wrestling with the very cold weather we have here in Chicago. It seems to be playing with her satellite reception. This is a sad thing, indeed. Hang in there, Sarah! Heh.
Posted by tripp at January 30, 2004 10:20 AM