I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Reader Mail: Origen
October 16, 2008
John Sutherland writes, in response to this article:
Before you go too far with Origen you had best check out other of his views that the Catholic Church would have to condemn as heretical.
It is true that many of Origen’s teachings were later condemned as heretical — but, as I’ve said before, everyone gets it right sometimes (that article isn’t related to Origen, but it’s an example of me saying what I just said I’ve said before).
In fairness, though, the theological difficulties that Origen ultimately got into with the Church seem to have more to do with his followers, and the views later attributed to him. Though many of his teachings were ultimately condemned as being anathema, he remains a father of the Church, and many of his analytical and theological methods are still considered valid even today.
And if in the end it is what is true that matters, then whether other aspects of Origen’s teachings were condemned is irrelevant: if he is, in fact, right about the fact that to fully comprehend John, we cannot push the Blessed Virgin to the sidelines, then that is what is important, and at the heart of the matter. And in fact, he is quite correct about that: the Gospel of John, itself a heavily theological work, culminates with the image of Christ as the Tree of Life, with the beloved disciple and Mary attending to Him. And Christ gives Mary her son, and gives the beloved disciple — and, by extension, all of us who are in Christ — a mother. The whole of the Gospel must be approached with this final act of the Lord in mind.
Update: Welcome, Way of the Fathers readers!
