tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468672.post7199875543839214143..comments2023-08-08T07:22:42.402-04:00Comments on Seeing the form: ...and taking names (4)Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02322476768181129691noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468672.post-68461255302795698512008-05-08T05:55:00.000-04:002008-05-08T05:55:00.000-04:00Thanks for an interesting series. The only work I ...Thanks for an interesting series. The only work I have read by Smith is "Who's afraid..." I have to say I am not very impressed by it, although I find it very interesting that a book that tries to "apply" Radical Orthodoxy actually exists. Of how mane theological movements can that be said?<BR/><BR/>Smith's reading of Lyotard is ok (Lyotard is not very difficult IMO) but as Larry said, Foucault Patrikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10237545786695465374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468672.post-63758823650564877902007-10-14T09:53:00.000-04:002007-10-14T09:53:00.000-04:00Andy,I imagine that I could say a lot about this p...Andy,<BR/><BR/>I imagine that I could say a lot about this post, especially the material dealing with emergent and the material dealing with institutions, if I felt like being argumentative. But, I don't. :-)<BR/><BR/>I think that you have accomplished something very impressive in this series. You have done a very good job of getting into these various works of Smith. With a little work, you W. Travis McMakenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12347103855436761304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468672.post-67577116901184778892007-09-20T11:46:00.000-04:002007-09-20T11:46:00.000-04:00Well, I was leaving a nice full comment when my co...Well, I was leaving a nice full comment when my computer crashed. Fifth time in the last 18 hours or so. Not good.<BR/><BR/>At any rate, I was suggesting that perhaps both election and episcopate would be ideal. My favorite kind of ecclesiastic is a dogmatic Protestant gone Catholic (again, not Roman, per se). After all, the "office" of apostle and election were perfectly compatible in Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02322476768181129691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468672.post-80969592870094362112007-09-19T23:02:00.000-04:002007-09-19T23:02:00.000-04:00Andy,I hope you find time to read someone other th...Andy,<BR/><BR/>I hope you find time to read someone other than your "self" and those dreadful check lists in application season also. I also find it interesting that your disaggreement with Smith is precisely where I find his project to be impossible--unless he goes the way of Catholicism. Don't you think it is interesting that when he comments on the incarnational logic on your blog it is the Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10049354649634994907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468672.post-38425368652737892672007-09-19T14:10:00.000-04:002007-09-19T14:10:00.000-04:00Hi Larry,I've grown accustomed to your sharpening ...Hi Larry,<BR/><BR/>I've grown accustomed to your sharpening comments as well. It could be that election is the locus problematicus. :) Where I think Smith is least consistent in this book is in his insistence on accepting historical development as part of the logic of incarnation and the affirmation of materiality (canon and creed) while he balks at the level of ecclesiastical authority. I Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02322476768181129691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468672.post-33953383872211955132007-09-19T13:44:00.000-04:002007-09-19T13:44:00.000-04:00Andy,I have grown accustom to reading your lovely ...Andy,<BR/><BR/>I have grown accustom to reading your lovely blog. Your post on Whose Afraid of Postmodernism is wonderfully concise and insightful. I personally didn't like Smith's reading of Foucault as much as you did (or as gracious as your reading was) yet I think my distaste for this section in Smith's book actually relates to your question concerning apostolic succession. I'm not sure ifLarryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10049354649634994907noreply@blogger.com