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TL;DR: In the discussion of the validity of orders tainted by simony or schism, was the laying-on of hands which was required for readmission to the Church a new giving of the Spirit, who was not received outside it, or, with Bemold of St Blasien, a mere cereillony of reconciliation?.
Abstract: in the discussion of the validity of orders tainted by simony or schism: was the laying-on of hands which was required for readmission to the Church a new giving of the Spirit, who was not received outside it, or, was it, with Bemold of St Blasien, a mere cereillony of reconciliation? (p. 470). Neither is the voice of the laity, the voice of protest, the voice of renewal, silent in these pages. It produced its creative movements attempts at the eremitical life, new experiments, solitary and corporate, to return to evangelical poverty and holiness; it cried out for peace and order in the attempts to establish the Truce and Peace of God. But in its more vociferous expression it was recognizable and ofperennial type: the hordes which marched in one century with their banners crying Pax, Pax, marched again in the next to the Holy Wars, to the Crusades, to the very worst betrayals of the evangelical ideal. It is one of the merits of this volume that it can take us so far into so much, with all the apparatus provided for a critical study of so much more.
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TL;DR: The most Illustrious Light in theChurch, Wearing over allherBeauties theveilof Humility to shine the more resplendently in thy Eternal Glory.
Abstract: Mother ofJesus. Mother of the Messias. Mother of Him who wasthe Desire ~f all Nations. Mother of the Prince of Peace. Mother of the King C!f HeatJen. Mother of ourCreator. Mother and Virgin. Mirror of Humility andObedience. Mirror of Wisdom and Devotion. Mirror of Modesty and Chastity. Mirror of Sweetness and Resignation. Mirror of Sanctity Mirror ofall virtues. The most Illustrious Light in theChurch, Wearing over allherBeauties theveilof Humility to shine the more resplendently in thy Eternal Glory.
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TL;DR: The Church's history has been that of a human community, developing in accordance with the same principles of social dynamics as other hUlnan communities, and revealing under sociological X-ray very much the same kind of power structure as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In what follovvs I aUl deliberately making points as emphatically and posing problems as starkly as I can. This seems appropriate in remarks whose function is to provoke discussion. Further, in opening up vast issues within the time available I am very conscious that what I say is open to correction at a great lnany points. But, once again, the purpose of the operation is to define issues and to launch discussion. The Christian theologian starts within a continuing society called the Church and within an inherited set of ideas called Christian theology. The Church as we know it is widely different froln anything that can plausibly be said to have been intended byJesus ofNazareth. The Church's history has been that of a human community, developing in accordance with the same principles of social dynamics as other hUlnan communities, and revealing under sociological X-ray very much the same kind of power structure. However, our subject is primarily belief rather than the institutional Church, and I therefore leave the latter largely out of account in what follows. The weight and extent of the strain under which Christian belief has come can be indicated by listing aspects of traditional theology which are, in the opinion of many theologians today (including myself), either quite untenable or open to serious doubt: