Catholic Conversation Project | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The CDF and the bishops need to realize that academic theologians come in two groups. One group is dedicated to the training of priests and improving cathecisis. The other lives in academia and is dedicated to deepening the academic understanding of Christology, ethics and theology in general. They are the salt or yeast that keeps doctrine relevant to successive generations. Nowadays the latter is able to use what we learn from archeology and biology. The bishops need to cut the latter group some slack - provided that they are clear about the nature of their writings as exploration rather than the teaching of doctrine. The Holy Office needs to get that the condemnation of modernism was itself erroneous.
The Geenie is long out of the bottle. it cannot ever be put back in. Evolution and biblical scholarship have shown that Adam and Eve are allegorial figures. The first humans were much older and they did not have a golden age of sinlessness. Farming in the Middle East began because that place known as Eden, which is in Turkey, had a climate change incident. The myth is a desire to explain why this happened - as the authors had no knowledge of global climate change.
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