[Apologetics] Fwd: Karl Keating's E-Letter

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Art Kelly wrote:

> Attached is Karl Keating's latest newsletter, which
> mentions Scott Hahn, Mark Shea, and Bob Sungensis.
> 
> I'm unfamiliar with the problems which Hahn and Shea
> have had. Does anyone know anything about these
> matters?

I don't know anything directly about these matters, but I'll throw
in my 2 cents on my limited experience with Keating and Hahn.

I read a book by Keating (I forget which one).  It badly misrepresented
Protestants, but I didn't notice anything weird.

I sympathize with Hahn on the Holy Spirit issue.  The Bible often
uses feminine metaphors to describe the Holy Spirit (e.g. brooding
over the face of the deep in Genesis 1), and I think we would agree
that neither male nor female of the human species fully represents the
Image of God by themselves.  However, I try to avoid bringing this up
in the wrong company since the rampant feminism today would love to 
run with it and distort it.  That sounds like what happened to Hahn.

The Bible clearly portrays all the members of the Trinity as masculine
as they relate to us.  So regardless of the glimpses we are given of how
members of the Trinity relate to each other and to other creatures, 
for us it is always "Sir!", and "Ma'am!" would be blasphemous.

There was a debate in Catholic homeschooling, where a priest insisted
that homeschooling parents had to send their kids to his sex education
class in order to be in submission to the church.  The parents refused
on the grounds that the class was designed for public school kids who
were already exposed to a great deal of sexual material, whereas they
were endeavering to keep their children innocent until a more appropriate
age.  Seton was on the side of the parents.  As I recall, the Hahns were
forcefully on the side of the priest, which is very wrong.  Education
is the responsibility of the parents according to the Catholic Catechism.
Although I applaud the effort the priest is putting into sex ed - it is sorely
needed, he needs to lose the one size fits all attitude.

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