tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876502085465766394.post523165664910586858..comments2024-01-17T03:08:25.317-06:00Comments on The Progressive Catholic Voice: Creating a Liberating Church (Part 3)PCV Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12519134580470262558noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876502085465766394.post-8931650537105539872010-08-08T20:40:16.041-05:002010-08-08T20:40:16.041-05:008-8-10 There is a wealth of Rosemary Radford Rueth...8-8-10 There is a wealth of Rosemary Radford Ruether’s talk to respond to but to respect limited space I will address a bit briefly. She says “Rather I am pointing out the great difficulty we have really liberating ourselves from the residue of a spirituality of infantilism which was deeply bred into our psyches in our traditional Catholic socialization.” She points out a major problem to which I respond as follows.<br />Authentic Christian community must be totally honest and courageous as to where it fits into the big picture. Honesty and courage as qualities of an authentic person or community require stepping outside the box of indoctrination. This means embracing cultural evolution. Evolution means unprecedented change. The clues are all around us but we must be willing to be open to them. This takes a leap of faith. But it is a faith embedded in reason. That's how we “get there from here”. However the ‘there’ and ‘here’ are not the same; it is a metamorphosis, an evolution. If people are still clinging to the box then the unprecedented change has not occurred. The box can still be used but it has to be recycled for an appropriate new use. One could say by way of an analogy that the faith move is: polytheism is to monotheism as the Axial Age religion of Christianity (see Loyal Rue) is to a post-Axial Age faith phenomenon. The definitive twenty-first century will include this phenomenon and will name itself but this change will be contingent upon the decisions that our species Homo sapiens makes. Rosemary addresses some of this. I for one have been giving the message of our visionaries for years but how many are listening and acting? The message is that the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary relevant work presented by experts in their respective fields needs to be implemented by the community as a whole. By connecting the dots we can see the picture and ‘get it’. That should move us to strong, immediate, urgent, education, preparation and effective action to help restore planet Earth. This process will reveal ‘the faith and morals issue’ long revered, in a new way and define and explain the post-Axial Age faith phenomenon. No infantilism here; just multisplendored maturity.<br />Marie Schickel Rottschaefer.Marie Schickel Rottschaeferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11911306828067970778noreply@blogger.com