tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3483274485929133507.post7093561496136878052..comments2023-09-02T06:15:58.305-05:00Comments on Under A Chindolea: The Hermeneutical ImpasseNathan O'Halloran, SJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08672001160647592501noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3483274485929133507.post-61705632369762768102008-03-31T19:06:00.000-05:002008-03-31T19:06:00.000-05:00Okay. I like it. Our true encounter with the Wor...Okay. I like it. Our true encounter with the Word is in the liturgy, which then enables us to continue that encounter outside the liturgy in prayer and the reading of Scripture.<BR/><BR/>It's just I'm amazed, out in the field, the number of Catholics who think they don't need to (and even shouldn't!) pick up a Bible outside of "Today's Missal." One young lady came to RCIA and was surprised that I told her to get a Bible because her Catholic boyfriend told her that "Catholics don't read the Bible."<BR/><BR/>Look forward to the final installment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3483274485929133507.post-39817450722377636572008-03-30T00:18:00.000-05:002008-03-30T00:18:00.000-05:00I understand Marion to be referring to the Euchari...I understand Marion to be referring to the Eucharist as the Liturgy in which the community gathers around the Bishop. I think the final installment will help in this regard, but I think his main point is that the primary place for hearing the Word is in the Liturgy - which of course resonates well with Catholic theology. While Scripture is to be read individually of course and used in prayer, divorced from its central situation of proclamation in the Liturgy, it is open to all kinds of idolatry. For Marion, the only way to avoid the impasses of hermeneutics or the problem of reading the Bible as a mirror image of one's own face is to allow the Word to appear in the only place where it continues to reappear as actual Event, as true Presence, which is in that place where Christ said he would appear, i.e., in the Eucharist. This is never promised about Scripture, though it is of course to Scripture that the early Church went to discover and understand Christ. But this was done as we know in the situation of the Liturgy. <BR/><BR/>Markel, SJNathan O'Halloran, SJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08672001160647592501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3483274485929133507.post-33307454943760269532008-03-29T20:46:00.000-05:002008-03-29T20:46:00.000-05:00Awesome! This makes a lot of very important point...Awesome! This makes a lot of very important points, for theology, the study of Scripture, for prayer, for liturgy, for preaching. Thanks for the summary.<BR/><BR/>One little quibble: is the Eucharistic Event to be considered specifically the Eucharist as the acutal sacrament, or is it possible to have an encounter with the Word itself, through Scripture, outside of the Eucharist per se? I'd like to think so... but if we start to use the word "eucharistic" to refer to any encounter with the Word, even if it is outside the sacrament, there is the risk of confusing what is specific and unique about the sacrament of the Eucharist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com