HeyJaredLarry Chapp
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In defense of moral agency and the necessary pursuit of holiness (opens the original)
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The biblical narrative of redemption is rendered pointless and ultimately incomprehensible in a culture that has been bleached of a real sense of the importance of moral agency—the ability to choose freely right and wrong, and be responsible for those choices. The biblical story of Fall-Redemption-Glory makes little sense if human moral choice loses its purchase as the central defining aspect of what it means to be a person at all. In fact, and as we now see in many “academic” treatises, once th
Dignitatis Humanae and Social Kingship, Part Two (opens the original)
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In Part One of this essay on Dignitatis Humanae, I made the argument, following Tracey Rowland and Russel Hittinger, that DH should be read minimalistically as a simple affirmation that no person should be forcibly coerced in religious matters by the Church, or by the State acting as an agent of the Church. In what follows, I wish to elaborate upon this point even further and to defend its cogency as the approach that best situates DH within the tradition. But allow me to begin with one of the s
Dignitatis Humanae and Social Kingship, Part One (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: This is Part One of a two-part essay on the teachings of the Second Vatican Council on religious freedom. One of the constant criticisms from traditionalist Catholics of Vatican II’s document on religious freedom, Dignitatis Humanae (henceforth, DH), is that it contradicts previous Church teachings on that topic and so undermines the doctrine of the social kingship of Christ. Furthermore, it is alleged that when this “novel” teaching is paired with the Council’s robust affirmation
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