Monday, December 31, 2018

The Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Weinandy, O.F.M. Cap

Fr. Weinandy  gained a certain notoriety by a letter he addressed to Pope Francis in 2017 and as result lost his job  as chief of staff for the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine. He studied under the great Anglican theologian, Eric Mascall at King's College, University of London, producing a doctoral dissertation on "The Immutability and Impassibility of God in Reference to the Doctrine of the Incarnation". That is, he examined the question of how God could become man and the same time retain his inability to change or suffer, which he denies is an 'abstract and lifeless' matter. It is in fact at the very center of the mystery of Christmas. 


"Every human being thirsts, hungers, suffers, dies, and for Christ to be just another man added to the human race makes little difference. It is only if Christ is truly God who as man thirsts, hungers, suffers, dies, in time and history that time and history and every human life is changed and made new".

Quoted E.L. Mascall, Whatever Happened to the Human Mind p.72

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