tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post4380869074944010985..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: AEIPARTHENOSFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-89968183837255438072020-10-04T05:57:59.338+01:002020-10-04T05:57:59.338+01:00Mr Tighe, you make a good point that "Eastern...Mr Tighe, you make a good point that "Eastern" cannot be a catch-all explanation. However, the degree of commonality between Eastern regions separated by 2000 years and 2000 miles is far greater than that between the "West" and 2000 years. Fr Hunwicke's point surely is that we should not read the biblical text without understanding that "brother" to us means Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17943441624461281110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-38595979003994119462020-10-03T14:23:35.356+01:002020-10-03T14:23:35.356+01:00Mr Tighe, I'm not intelligent enough to agree ...Mr Tighe, I'm not intelligent enough to agree with you.Michael Leahyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15044897013849386271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-14599354385001252772020-10-03T03:24:12.403+01:002020-10-03T03:24:12.403+01:00An intelligent commenter would perhaps read Fr. Mc...An intelligent commenter would perhaps read Fr. McHugh's account - which, as I wrote, adduces insuperable obstacles to the easy acceptance of St. Jerome's theory - rather than trying to make "Eastern" a catch-all explanation linking Pakistani custom to that of Israel two thousand years earlier. Even in the "East" it is possible that some things change over the course William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09043433059401608468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-22222458804945150282020-10-03T01:49:38.621+01:002020-10-03T01:49:38.621+01:00I'm in Indonesia and I'm used to hearing &...I'm in Indonesia and I'm used to hearing "brother" and "sister" given a wide application to various members of one's extended family.Grant Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381331872077276383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-25770145800500267882020-10-03T01:02:00.193+01:002020-10-03T01:02:00.193+01:00Last week, I read a paper on "James the Broth...Last week, I read a paper on "James the Brother of the Lord" by William K. Prentice in <i>Studies in Roman Economic and Social History in Honor of Allan Chester Johnson</i> (Princeton University Press, 1951), pp. 144–51. "James, Joses, Simon, Judas were cousins, not brothers, of Jesus", he argues. I thought it was a remarkably orthodox conclusion in an article that goes on to Calvin Engimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03598204520857427596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-55843152683526136552020-10-03T00:20:39.693+01:002020-10-03T00:20:39.693+01:00"Prods and Liberals are impervious to evidenc..."Prods and Liberals are impervious to evidence and reason"---of the multitude of true words written in this blog over time none truer than these. Cancels out the beloved "dialogue" of the liberals, doesn't it?, for how can anyone reason with someone who denies fact, history, evidence and reason itself. Yes, Dr. Michael Savage is right on target in saying that he coradcorloquiturhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07125381369456761748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-67974233359698897542020-10-02T19:25:02.089+01:002020-10-02T19:25:02.089+01:00I'm with St Jerome and the Cousin Theory. I h...I'm with St Jerome and the Cousin Theory. I have lived in Pakistan for over a quarter of a century and I learned from this experience that the bible is a thoroughly Eastern book. It is common here for children brought up together in extended family households to refer to their cousins as brothers and sisters. It has often given me problems as a school Principal having to implement an Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17943441624461281110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-32495295305739483282018-10-01T01:24:34.795+01:002018-10-01T01:24:34.795+01:00Decades ago a friend - it may have been Fr. John S...<br />Decades ago a friend - it may have been Fr. John Saward, then a Catholic layman - recommended to me on this subject <i> The Mother of Jesus in the New Testament </i> by the late John McHugh (London, 1975: Darton, Longman & Todd). In his day, Fr. McHugh taught at Ushaw and was also Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of Durham. I had already stumbled upon his then William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09043433059401608468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-20388120097206135992018-09-21T21:21:20.809+01:002018-09-21T21:21:20.809+01:00While I know it is common to explain that Our Lord...While I know it is common to explain that Our Lord's "brethren" were kinsmen, I like to believe the unpopular pious belief that they were an elderly St. Joseph's children from a previous marriage.Marco da Vinhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06092410765851812842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-92083306968562700732018-09-21T14:05:14.689+01:002018-09-21T14:05:14.689+01:00Richard Bauckham, in an October 1994 article in Ca...Richard Bauckham, in an October 1994 article in <i>Catholic Biblical Quarterly</i>, makes the interesting point that the fact that Jesus is called "the son of Mary" by the people of Nazareth instead of "the son of Joseph" would be well explained if they know Joseph to have children by a prior wife or wives. These people may be called brothers and sisters of Jesus, but they areCalvin Engimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03598204520857427596noreply@blogger.com