tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post4665932960071671465..comments2023-11-24T06:43:02.286+00:00Comments on Aspicientes in Jesum: The bleedin' obviousPastor in Montehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05949810648656544072noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-65424371230231171822011-05-31T10:27:54.986+01:002011-05-31T10:27:54.986+01:00Galileo's not embarrassing.
Wrong is what he ...Galileo's not embarrassing.<br /><br />Wrong is what he is - it's simply not possible to prove heliocentrism empirically. It's not the sort of thing susceptible to empiricle demonstration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-57799001809812976532011-05-29T17:34:54.589+01:002011-05-29T17:34:54.589+01:00"Last time round", as we A-Cs say (i.e. ..."Last time round", as we A-Cs say (i.e. 1992 And All That), one recurrent "argument" by the proponents of the novelty was that Article XXVI ("Of the Unworthiness of the Ministers, which hinders not the effect of the Sacrament") ought to prevent us from supposing that any aspect of the person of the Minister might have a detrimental, much less invalidatory, effect upon the sacramental life of the Church. In vain did we protest that the <i>moral</i> status – the worthiness or unworthiness – of women ministers was <i>neither</i> in principle germane <i>nor</i> in practice under question.<br /><br />You express well (sadly, nineteen years too late!) the extent to which we were arguing at cross-purposes with our opponents, and too often (and too easily) allowing our "is"s to be confused with their "ought"s. In the present stage of the long-running controversy, it would be useful to be able to make common cause with the Ugley Vicar and his Evangelical colleagues, but I do wonder if they realise how attempting to deal with the issue at the prescriptive level renders unstable and interpretatively subjective the case that we both (A-Cs and Conservative Evangelicals alike) are seeking to make.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16010105719301587195noreply@blogger.com