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Excellent! It’s ABOUT time the REAL theologians began to see themselves as Defence-Against-the-Dark-Arts professors!

This, after all, was the whole point of our Lord’s plan: the defeat of the Dark Lord. It’s quite evident St. Matthew could claim precedent over JKR: the story of the Flight into Egypt is the story of “The Boy Who Lived”. (hee hee) A significant discussion on the warfare of our Lord can be found in Chesterton’s major work on Him, The Everlasting Man.

And the parallel only starts there. In the “old” form of Orders, one of the Minor Orders is called “Exorcist”, and by our confirmation we are all enlisted in the Church Militant – we have an Enemy, and our Lord came to bring a sword to our assistance.[see Mt 10:34] But then He is the “Lord of Hosts(=Armies)” [Is 6:3] as we attest at every Mass in the Sanctus.

Moreover, while there are important links between the sacred clergy and the red blood cells (celibate, formed in a special place, carrying the Life to the most remote places, spending their lives in service of the Body, and so on), here we see a link to white cells: the leucocytes, the megacaryocytes, the whole panoply of the defenders of the Body. It is most dramatic to see that these defenders must know the Enemy intimately, forming their antibody defence by conforming perfect opposition to the invasion. It is mystical and inspiring to contemplate.

I wonder if this will engender the formation of a “Benedict’s Army”…

–Dr. Thursday

The theologies we will be covering in the seminar are decidedly non-Catholic, sometimes downright
(though never explicitly) anti-Catholic, and represent some of the best contemporary theology out
there.

I might suggest a change in word choice. Perhaps instead of “best contemporary theology,” it should be “most persuasive” or “best written”? This sounds like the substance of it is good, and so I misunderstood at first that the point of the class is to teach the error of this theology, or, indeed, how to combat it! The word choice sounds like an endorsement–how is it, exactly, that theologians writing in opposition to Catholicism can be writing the “best contemporary theology”? Or is that the point–to show the Catholic theologians what they need to combat and what rhetorical tools they need to write it?

Methinks your approach is a little too unorthodox Fr. Powell. It’s a shame to muddy the waters by teaching anti catholic theology. Throw enough mud and some of it will stick.

The first essays are posted…check them out!