What Do Sex, Lent, UFO’s, Evolution, and the Shroud of Turin Have in Common? – Patheos (blog)

Theyre all, in one way or another, connected with Catholicism. Thats how theyre related. These also happen to be the topics covered in the TOP10 trending posts on this blog this week.

And why shouldnt they?

Dappled Things argues Flannery OConnor apparently neversaid, You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd, but she was right anyway:

The reader of today has forgotten the cost of truth, even in fiction. I dont believe that you can impose orthodoxy on fiction. I do believe that you can deepen your own orthodoxy by reading if you are not afraid of strange visions. Our sense of what is contained in our faith is deepened less by abstractions than by an encounter with mystery in what is human and often perverse.

In other words, The Catholic Imaginationteaches that God is close to all of the phenomena of the sublunar world, even, or especially, the weird ones:

In new book news, the Catholic-friendly Calvinist press Eerdmans(mouthful, isnt it?)has a new book of essays by Catholic and Protestant theologians on the topic of Evolution and the (traditional) non-literal reading of Gensis entitled Evolution and the Fall:

What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primatesas genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggestthen what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the origin of sin?

Evolution and the Fall gathers a multidisciplinary, ecumenical team of scholars to address these difficult questions and others like them from the perspectives of biology, theology, history, Scripture, philosophy, and politics

CONTRIBUTORS:

William T. Cavanaugh Celia Deane-Drummond Darrel R. Falk Joel B. Green Michael Gulker Peter Harrison J. Richard Middleton Aaron Riches James K. A. Smith Brent Waters Norman Wirzba

Now thats an excellent group of top-notch scholars!

Im only surprised that Conor Cunningham, author of an important Eerdmans book on evolution and theology, Darwins Pious Idea,didnt make the list. His work is featured alongside the words of Benedict XVI in the post Did Darwin Kill God? Heres a brief summary of the Cunninghams book in BBCdocumentary form:

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What Do Sex, Lent, UFO's, Evolution, and the Shroud of Turin Have in Common? - Patheos (blog)