tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2467092921624269928.post1458129966350074531..comments2023-06-27T07:36:43.952-04:00Comments on Rev. Laurie Brock: When What's Underneath Doesn't Match...revlauriebrockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678346331976194571noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2467092921624269928.post-54611874630279606322015-04-27T14:10:26.271-04:002015-04-27T14:10:26.271-04:00Wonderful article. Awesome reflections of "Ri...Wonderful article. Awesome reflections of "Riding Undie Theology" for those of us who go between the saddle and the pulpit. Thank you!Alyssahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12301061299057853206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2467092921624269928.post-6477370160024345702015-04-17T12:39:08.642-04:002015-04-17T12:39:08.642-04:00I absolutely love this and resonate deeply with th...I absolutely love this and resonate deeply with the struggle. After reading it for several days, I also can't seem to get out of my mind thinking about those we discount because of what we "see" on the outside-their outer garment don't fit our sense of "style" and what we may miss out on by not looking through the tears that are there.Just Katherine--Patron Saint of Hot Messeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16413223818384995349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2467092921624269928.post-17279074593774545292015-04-17T11:26:26.981-04:002015-04-17T11:26:26.981-04:00It seems by "inner self" and "outer...It seems by "inner self" and "outer self" you suggest it's possible for one to be effected w/o the other being so (ie the outer self is offered, but the inner self is doing something else). If this is so, then the human Person is put asunder, into two not only distinct, but separable parts.<br /><br /><br />If we do this then I'm not sure how Jesus' "inner self" saved my "outer self," or vice versa, since the two don't touch, at best they "match" or run parallel. This just seems another variation of modern Substance Dualism, which post-Descartes modernists accept, being why they can't logically make since of Christianity, but is also the same position The Church rejected in ALL the Councils as contradictory to saying Christ saved us on the Cross.<br /><br />IE The Family Systems Theory lexicon and grammar is antithetically opposed and contradictory to the Cross, The Holy Eucharist, and to the language necessary to maintain belief in a Trinitarian God.<br /><br />It might be "self" and "soul" are not both substances co-existing in one Person, but that "self" is a modern but nebulous attempt to replace "soul" talk.Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03617449507493321849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2467092921624269928.post-85283002773914767392015-04-15T08:02:15.400-04:002015-04-15T08:02:15.400-04:00I am forever trying to reconcile the inner and out...I am forever trying to reconcile the inner and outer me. I wonder if there will always be those parts I don't want anyone else to see. But as I improve the inner me, the outer me "gets better" too. Thus, there is always that disparity. <br /><br />I thank God that grace covers me and that I don't have to "be worthy" for God to love me. That fact makes me want to be better. Isn't Grace wonderful. Gene Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15731141629634998152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2467092921624269928.post-47638110014732465312015-04-15T01:50:24.680-04:002015-04-15T01:50:24.680-04:00I have read thousands, millions, of words about th...I have read thousands, millions, of words about the meaning of "dying to self", sacrificing the self, transformation through the resurrection (felt most acutely at the end of Holy Week), etc. This article is the clearest exposition I've come across on the subject.<br />I am grateful.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01343064403722007534noreply@blogger.com