Tuesday, July 23, 2019

The Procrustean bed of the modern theology of religious language


"How far is it possible, in the words of the Good News Bible, ‘to use language that is natural, clear, simple, and unambiguous,’ when the Bible is not about things that are natural, clear, simple, and unambiguous?"

     Stephen Prickett, Words and the word:  language, poetics, and biblical interpretation (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1986), 10, as quoted by Benedict Ashley, O.P., “Gender and the priesthood of Christ:  a theological reflection,” The Thomist:  a speculative quarterly 57, no. 3 (July 1993):  345n5 (343-379).

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