As the church seeks to continue teaching repentance and pursuing right theology, I strongly suspect that we will more and more fully repent of having declared Origen to be a heretic long after his own lifetime.
“Til We Have Faces” is my favorite book and I am quite excited to see dear Psyche’s imminent return to the literary stage. Loved this entire reflection, thank you for sharing it.
On a side note though, have you read the study in question regarding the Shroud of Turin? After a bit of digging my impression is the recent headlines have been vastly over-sensational. My understanding (and I’m more than happy to be corrected if I’m misstating the reality of things) is that the conclusion of the study is not a new definitive measurement placing the shroud to Christ’s day, but instead a proposed and entirely conditional hypothetical scenario, which if true, would allow for that dating (the shroud would need to have been kept in an 22C environment with a humanity level of 55% for 13 centuries or so, only under those precise conditions would the aging of the cellulose in the fibers place the shroud around 2,000 years ago). The headlines, from what I’ve seen, are largely leaving out the fact that the proposed dating is conditioned upon unverified historical scenarios as opposed to a more traditional scientific measurement such as say, carbon dating.
The one piece that I read about the recent shroud study was fairly technical and clear regarding the variables assumed. Combined with older bits of evidence such as pollen types in the fibers, it’s still a substantial finding that casts serious doubt on the quality of the carbon dating in the Eighties. Carbon dating from multiple locations would seem a logical next step.
I really enjoyed this! It had not occurred to me that the faith has died many times and risen again. I think it's an encouraging thought when we remember that it's not our job to defend Christ. He is very capable of that himself. Our job is to love and copy Christ as closely as we can.
Touch base with me at some stage soon.
Would love to. I sent a pm.
“Til We Have Faces” is my favorite book and I am quite excited to see dear Psyche’s imminent return to the literary stage. Loved this entire reflection, thank you for sharing it.
On a side note though, have you read the study in question regarding the Shroud of Turin? After a bit of digging my impression is the recent headlines have been vastly over-sensational. My understanding (and I’m more than happy to be corrected if I’m misstating the reality of things) is that the conclusion of the study is not a new definitive measurement placing the shroud to Christ’s day, but instead a proposed and entirely conditional hypothetical scenario, which if true, would allow for that dating (the shroud would need to have been kept in an 22C environment with a humanity level of 55% for 13 centuries or so, only under those precise conditions would the aging of the cellulose in the fibers place the shroud around 2,000 years ago). The headlines, from what I’ve seen, are largely leaving out the fact that the proposed dating is conditioned upon unverified historical scenarios as opposed to a more traditional scientific measurement such as say, carbon dating.
The one piece that I read about the recent shroud study was fairly technical and clear regarding the variables assumed. Combined with older bits of evidence such as pollen types in the fibers, it’s still a substantial finding that casts serious doubt on the quality of the carbon dating in the Eighties. Carbon dating from multiple locations would seem a logical next step.
I do hope they do so!
I really enjoyed this! It had not occurred to me that the faith has died many times and risen again. I think it's an encouraging thought when we remember that it's not our job to defend Christ. He is very capable of that himself. Our job is to love and copy Christ as closely as we can.
Oh! The shroud! What’s the name of the study? I really want it to be real
There is so much to read on the topic of course, but lots of popular reporting lately on this study.
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/5/2/47
Thanks! I’m going to enjoy reading this
https://open.substack.com/pub/stevenberger/p/who-will-be-saved?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1nm0v2