Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: dhosek@lucy.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Qualifications for theological discourse (was Re: ambitious women may Message-ID: Date: 24 May 91 04:31:38 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Quixote Digital Typography Lines: 28 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , conan@lipton.berkeley.edu (David Cruz-Uribe) writes: > In article jhpb@garage.att.com (Joseph H Buehler) writes: >>I frankly do not think there are any Catholics present who are competent >>to defend the idea that women should be ordained. To deal adequately >>with the issue requires training far above and beyond anything that a >>layman is likely to possess, at the very least. > Ignoring the actual discussion in progress, I find this to be an amazingly > presumptuous statement. There are many extraordinarily talented lay > theologians--to the best of my understanding, theological knowledge is > not one of the charisms of ordinatiion. Well, I interpretted "layman" not necessarily to mean non-priest, but simply an untrained individual. Not that I necessarily agree (although on the other hand, nor do I feel qualified enough to say anything more than that I believe women can be validly ordained without much more force than that) but it is a worthwhile point. Someone else brought up an interesting scripture on knowledge in another posting. -dh -- Don Hosek dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu Quixote Digital Typography 714-625-0147