Monday, March 17, 2025

St. Patrick's Day

 Theologian Matthew Fox is mistaken in associating the Celtic spiritual tradition of St. Patrick with Teilhard de Chardin.  Teilhard, the Frenchman, overcooks Celtic spirituality. 

Ray Nogar writes:

The God of the strange world of Father Teilhard is not the one I have come to believe in.  His is the God of the neat; mine is the God of the messy.  His God governs with unerring efficiency; mine provides with inexcusable waste.  His God is impeccably regular; mine is irresponsible.  His God is the Lord of order; my God is the Lord of the Absurd.  

[The Lord of the Absurd by Raymond J. Nogar, O.P., p. 126.  Herder and Herder, New York, 1966.]

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