tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13295591.post112312862668716058..comments2023-10-29T05:33:35.516-07:00Comments on The Art of Apologetics: A Clown for ChristAustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12492394706855254913noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13295591.post-1123364909530819122005-08-06T14:48:00.000-07:002005-08-06T14:48:00.000-07:00I just wanted to add something. Pope Benedict (Ca...I just wanted to add something. Pope Benedict (Cardinal Ratsinger at the time) in his book says that the analogy that I quoted is too simplistic. He says the following in regards to the analogy.<BR/> <BR/>Nevertheless, if he who seeks to preach the faith is sufficiently self-critical, he will soon notice that it is not only a question of form, of the kind of dress in which theology enters upon the scene. In the strangeness of theology’s aims to the men of our time, he who takes his calling seriously will clearly recognize not only the difficulty of the task of interpretation but also the insecurity of his own faith, the oppressive power of unbelief in the midst of his own will to believe. Thus anyone today who makes an honest effort to give an account of the Christian faith to himself and to others must learn to see that he is not just someone in fancy dress who needs only change his clothes in order to be able to impart his teaching successfully. Rather he will have to understand that his own situation is by no means so different from that of others as he may have thought at the start. He will become aware that on both sides the same forces are at work, albeit in different ways.Austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12492394706855254913noreply@blogger.com