The Catholic Slifkin?
Many of you, I am sure, are familiar with the controversy regarding the works of Rabbi Slifkin (waves to DovBear). I personally have only read one of his books (The Camel, the Hare, and the Hyrax) and found it fascinating.
Others, however, are not so enthused and have been calling for his head on a platter for about a year now.
Well, it seems as though our Catholic Cousins are on the cusp of a similar machloket:
Creationism is Paganism, says Vatican official.
He also comes out against Papal infallibility.
One wonders what the reaction of the Catholic Community will be, and how it will compare to our own reaction to Rabbi Slifkin's thoughts on the age and nature of the universe.
A good Shabbos to all. See you next week with more goodness.
Others, however, are not so enthused and have been calling for his head on a platter for about a year now.
Well, it seems as though our Catholic Cousins are on the cusp of a similar machloket:
Creationism is Paganism, says Vatican official.
He also comes out against Papal infallibility.
One wonders what the reaction of the Catholic Community will be, and how it will compare to our own reaction to Rabbi Slifkin's thoughts on the age and nature of the universe.
A good Shabbos to all. See you next week with more goodness.
posted by - Typo Lad | 5:55 AM
2 Comments:
I predict that the reaction of the Catholic community will be positive. The Catholic church has always considered a literal interpretation of the Bible to be heresy because it denies the Church its role as an interpreter.
Judaism is supposed to be the same way; the literal text of the Tanakh is interpreted through our oral tradition. Some folks seem to want to suppress much of that tradition today.
I think that the public reaction of the Catholic community will be rather quiet. I'd like to be a fly on the wall at the next meeting of Cardinals, though. I wonder that the Vatican is just now denying the literal meaning of "six days.
"Some folks seem to want to suppress much of that tradition today."
I'm not sure to what this statement is referring.
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