Comments on: Justinian’s Flea http://silouanthompson.net/2009/12/justinians-flea/ silouanthompson.net Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:58:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sean+ Lotz http://silouanthompson.net/2009/12/justinians-flea/comment-page-1/#comment-6527 Sean+ Lotz Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:58:15 +0000 http://silouanthompson.net/?p=1026#comment-6527 Well, maybe I should begin by asking, "Do you know the answer?" Well, maybe I should begin by asking, “Do you know the answer?”

]]> By: Silouan http://silouanthompson.net/2009/12/justinians-flea/comment-page-1/#comment-6469 Silouan Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:16:02 +0000 http://silouanthompson.net/?p=1026#comment-6469 Uh? Do tell! Uh? Do tell!

]]> By: Sean+ Lotz http://silouanthompson.net/2009/12/justinians-flea/comment-page-1/#comment-6468 Sean+ Lotz Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:39:01 +0000 http://silouanthompson.net/?p=1026#comment-6468 And you reply, Silouan, raises what I consider to be one of the funnier points of the history of Christian theology. The angels-on-pins debate is not murky at all, and is in fact one of the more important questions we can raise. And you reply, Silouan, raises what I consider to be one of the funnier points of the history of Christian theology. The angels-on-pins debate is not murky at all, and is in fact one of the more important questions we can raise.

]]> By: Silouan http://silouanthompson.net/2009/12/justinians-flea/comment-page-1/#comment-6459 Silouan Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:04:35 +0000 http://silouanthompson.net/?p=1026#comment-6459 For what it's worth, the author is Jewish; he's writing as an outsider to any kind of Christian faith, so he can describe Justinian's argument as "the murkiest kind of Christian dogma" - to him it's all angels-on-heads-of-pins in service to somebody else's belief system. I suspect by "unquestioning faith" he means that the whole culture assumed Christianity was the norm; nobody in New Rome was preaching atheism. Seems hard to justify calling Orthodox Christian faith "unquestioning" when it thrives on healthy debate as he describes in his very next paragraph :-) For what it’s worth, the author is Jewish; he’s writing as an outsider to any kind of Christian faith, so he can describe Justinian’s argument as “the murkiest kind of Christian dogma” – to him it’s all angels-on-heads-of-pins in service to somebody else’s belief system.

I suspect by “unquestioning faith” he means that the whole culture assumed Christianity was the norm; nobody in New Rome was preaching atheism. Seems hard to justify calling Orthodox Christian faith “unquestioning” when it thrives on healthy debate as he describes in his very next paragraph :-)

]]> By: Kester http://silouanthompson.net/2009/12/justinians-flea/comment-page-1/#comment-6454 Kester Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:21:51 +0000 http://silouanthompson.net/?p=1026#comment-6454 >>It wasn’t merely that pre-Enlightenment Christians drank from a pool of unquestioning faith; during Justinian’s time, they grew drunk on it. But ... how does a modern person deal with that? How does one not question an Orthodoxy which didn't question? Or is that even what Orthodoxy requires? >>It wasn’t merely that pre-Enlightenment Christians drank from a pool of unquestioning faith; during Justinian’s time, they grew drunk on it.

But … how does a modern person deal with that? How does one not question an Orthodoxy which didn’t question? Or is that even what Orthodoxy requires?

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