I've been thinking about belief, faith, works, law and receiving the Holy Spirit! - thoughts-on-theology/faith-and-judgement.txt at master · semiosis/thoughts-on-theology
Q. You are speaking from a moral perspective? ; A. Yes. We have gone from one extreme to another, from a concern for the individual soul to an extreme of social concern. None of us who were in the confessional twenty or thirty years ago will recall many social sins being confessed. Imagine an employer repenting of his failure to pay a living wage! Today, salvation has become almost social. Many feel that if they carry a banner for social justice they need not be concerned about their personal morality. They become like David, who waxed angry when Nathan presented him with a social problem but whose conscience was not troubled about his adultery. Both these extremes are wrong. They were represented on the Mount of Transfiguration. Peter wanted to keep things as they were, and to stay out of the valley below, with its disease and social problems. Then the Lord said, You have to go from the ecstasy down to the valley. There was another part of the Church down there: nine apostles who could not drive out the devil, the reason being a want of prayer and fasting. In like manner, some in the Church may want to be on the mountain, isolated from the problems of the world such as the distraught father and his demonic son, while others struggle unsuccessfully with the latter because they have ceased to be prayerful. The two have to go together. The task of the Church in the years to come will be to unite the ecstasy and the valley. Without the mountain we have no vision, and without the valley our work is a heavy and leaden duty. ; Q. And what do you say about conditions outside the Catholic Church?
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