As one who loves theology - as lived and thought - I decided to begin a very occasional blog to share some of my more theological musings.
I have several other blogs, most notably hermano juancito which I have been writing to reflect my life here in Honduras as a lay missionary in the diocese of Santa Rosa de Copan. Earlier this year I began a blog to share reflections on the lectionary as well as on significant dates, walking the way.
This will be more theologically oriented, based on my reading and my experience. It will also be more "experimental," throwing ideas out to begin discussions, if anyone is reading.
What inspired this?
Currently I am reading a work of the late Belgian-Brazilian liberation theologian, José Comblin, People of God, published in English in 2004 by Orbis Books.
What impressed me is his analysis of how this notion which was central for Vatican II ecclesiology, allowing for the human side of the church, has been suppressed by ideas that emphasize the divine side of the church - a type of Monophysitism he suggests.
As the original monophysites denied one aspect of the nature of Jesus, so the ecclesial monophysites want to deny - or downplay - the human nature of the church.
This has led, I believe, to many of the problems of the church in the developed world and also here. The church seeks to see itself as divine, sinless, holy, untouchable. But then the scandals come to the fore and undermine this image. Remembering the human side of the church might enable the powers that be to ask for forgiveness more freely and for us to see that despite the human side God is working in and through the Church.
