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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