Jana Bennett on The Other Big Chill | National Catholic Reporter

Jana Bennett on The Other Big Chill | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Yes and no.  Academic theology outside the Seminary has been marked more by exploration than the mandate to support Catholic teaching.  As such, it can take advantage of archeology and all those other things condemned as "Modernism."  It is truly about time that the discipline joined the 21st Century.  If only they would also look at gastrulation, the redefinition of the soul given what we know about neuroscience (it is about energy, not the brain) and married sexuality, we might have something there.  I remember a time when even saying Masturbation was not always a mortal sin got people fired from theology departments.  A bit of backlash against such nonsense is more than justified.