In my last blog post, I wrote of Tina Beattie that 'this woman has tenure at a Catholic teaching institution.'
I think that was incorrect, and Digby Stuart, now part of Roehamption University, is no longer a Catholic teaching institution.
Perhaps I could pass it off as a typo, and claim that what I really meant to write was: 'this woman writes manure for a once-Catholic paper.'
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She still self-describes as a 'Catholic theologian', which lays on her a clear obligation to do theology 'with the mind of the Church'; she is not free to makeit up as she goes along.
Yes, indeed Patti.
As I commented here: http://ccfather.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/a-failure-of-understanding.html and elsewhere.
I note that here Wikipedia entry also states that she is a practicing Catholic. That, too, brings obligations, both to the Church and to to the Truth.
Perhaps she means 'practicing' in the sense of 'rehearsing'.
There was still plenty of scope for a Bishop (her Bishop?) to write a correction in The Guardian explaining that while Prof Beattie might be a "Catholic theologian", the piece she wrote was not an exposition of Catholic teaching in any way.
I expect we'll just see a corrective article in the Catholic press ... errrr ...
Ttony,
I would lay a substantial wager that before any such statement, we will get a comment saying that attacks on her thinking are uncharitable and that she remains a Catholic 'in good standing.'
The problem with Catholic academic theology in this country is that it's invariably conducted in secular institutions (even if, like Roehampton and Heythrop, they can hint at Catholic origins if convenient)and is post modernist and secularizing in orientation. Unless you look (eg) to America, you'd easily get the impression that 'all the smart kids' are inevitably heretics. (Which is of course the impression many are quite happy to give.)
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