Comments on: “The Long Slow Victory of Gnostic over Catholic Christianity” http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/15/the-long-slow-victory-of-gnostic-over-catholic-christianity/ Spirituality and Theology Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:10:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: araç kiralama http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/15/the-long-slow-victory-of-gnostic-over-catholic-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-19587 araç kiralama Thu, 14 May 2009 16:27:44 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/15/the-long-slow-victory-of-gnostic-over-catholic-christianity/#comment-19587 THANK YOU THANK YOU

]]> By: All Things Seen and Unseen » The Kingship of Christ and Caesar http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/15/the-long-slow-victory-of-gnostic-over-catholic-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-53 All Things Seen and Unseen » The Kingship of Christ and Caesar Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:23:07 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/15/the-long-slow-victory-of-gnostic-over-catholic-christianity/#comment-53 [...] It's not just long-forgotten empires that come under the Christian critique–it's every way we apportion power, every way we subordinate peace to the violent pursuit of political ends, even when those ends are good. "The long slow victory of gnostic over catholic christianity" [back] [...]

[...] It’s not just long-forgotten empires that come under the Christian critique–it’s every way we apportion power, every way we subordinate peace to the violent pursuit of political ends, even when those ends are good. “The long slow victory of gnostic over catholic christianity” [back] [...]

]]> By: Rob http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/15/the-long-slow-victory-of-gnostic-over-catholic-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Rob Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:32:25 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/15/the-long-slow-victory-of-gnostic-over-catholic-christianity/#comment-52 I agree with both your comments--there's a pernicious way of mixing up religion and politics, whether its Christendom of the Middle Ages or the right-wing religion of the American Empire. Jesus faced his own version of politicized religion and criticized it powerfully enough to have it murder him. How do we hear the message of Jesus as both religious <i>and</i> political and respond in a way that makes us similarly irritating? I agree with both your comments–there’s a pernicious way of mixing up religion and politics, whether its Christendom of the Middle Ages or the right-wing religion of the American Empire. Jesus faced his own version of politicized religion and criticized it powerfully enough to have it murder him. How do we hear the message of Jesus as both religious and political and respond in a way that makes us similarly irritating?

]]> By: Crystal http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/15/the-long-slow-victory-of-gnostic-over-catholic-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Crystal Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:21:01 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/15/the-long-slow-victory-of-gnostic-over-catholic-christianity/#comment-51 Hi Steve - I liked your blog post the other day on the missing angel :-). About combining politics and religion, I belong to a site with a politics forum - most of the members are not christians (and many aren't american) and most of them are somewhat horrified by the intermingling of religion and politics ... Bush and the religious right being an example of that idea gone wrong. Hi Steve – I liked your blog post the other day on the missing angel :-) .

About combining politics and religion, I belong to a site with a politics forum – most of the members are not christians (and many aren’t american) and most of them are somewhat horrified by the intermingling of religion and politics … Bush and the religious right being an example of that idea gone wrong.

]]> By: Steve Bogner http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/15/the-long-slow-victory-of-gnostic-over-catholic-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Steve Bogner Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:02:32 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/15/the-long-slow-victory-of-gnostic-over-catholic-christianity/#comment-50 One of my blog-friends is a Protestant Pentacostal guy. He's always been uncomfortable with the term 'social justice' because it puts a political twist on religion. For me, it's just natural that my Catholicism affects the world I move in - politics being part of that world. I wonder, how much of this is like a pendulum swinging? I'm also reading about church history, and in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance the church was probably too intertwined with politics. Can society find a balance? One of my blog-friends is a Protestant Pentacostal guy. He’s always been uncomfortable with the term ’social justice’ because it puts a political twist on religion. For me, it’s just natural that my Catholicism affects the world I move in – politics being part of that world.

I wonder, how much of this is like a pendulum swinging? I’m also reading about church history, and in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance the church was probably too intertwined with politics. Can society find a balance?

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