Eugene R. Schlesinger

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He/him – Studies and teaches theology –Ressourcement – Cold takes – Dismantling the master’s house with whatever tools I have at hand – Books: http://bit.ly/3NvEGAb and http://bit.ly/47bqPHr

Tweet from Robert Barron: As a resident of Minnesota and as bishop of the Diocese of Winona- Rochester, my heart is breaking over the situation in my home state. Violence, retribution, threats, protests, deep suspicion of one another, political unrest, fear-all of it swirling around all the time. May I make a modest proposal for exiting this unbearable state of affairs? The Trump Administration and ICE should limit themselves, at least for the time being, to rounding up undocumented people who have committed serious crimes. Political leaders should stop stirring up resentment against officers who are endeavoring to enforce the laws of the country. And protestors should cease interfering with the work of ICE. And everyone on all sides must stop shouting at one another and demonizing their opponents. Where we are now is untenable. There is a way out.
Four books, Marie-Dominique Chenu: Catholic Theology for a Changing World (MK Holman); Divine Scripture in Human Understanding (J Gordon); Salvation in Henri de Lubac: Divine Grace, Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross (E Schlesinger); Henri de Lubac and the Drama of Human Existence (J Hillebert)
Dr. Fink, from Purple Rain
Meme of Walter White screaming in the car.
Two panels showing David Lynch saying a line from Twin Peaks: "One day, the sadness will end. But I don't think today's the day."
A man holding the book Ruptured Bodies: A Theology of the Church Divided.
A white board that says: Gentiles are lawless, unnatural isolators. Jews are elected, given the law, covenants. Romans 1 - para physin (contrary to nature); describes gentile sexuality. Romans 11 a para physin describes God’s act of including gentiles.
Screenshot of a document which is an abstract for a book proposal. I should not have needed the first election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States to realize that there was something rotten in Christianity as it had been mediated to me. There was already ample testimony to this problem, had I ears to hear it. Nevertheless, this event constituted a dividing line for me and for many of my generation. Whatever way forward we might find vis-à-vis the Christian faith, there was no going back to what we had known before in the form that we had known it. It would have been easy enough to decide that none of it was ever true and walk away from the charade. Many of my peers did that, “the best minds of my generation destroyed by [the church’s] madness.” Easy as well to determine that those from whom we’d received the faith and who were now throwing in their lot with tyranny, overt white supremacy, misogyny, mockery of the disabled, the valorization of marital infidelity and sexual assault, were simply contradicting the faith. But the problem we face is actually more pernicious than that. Yes, there are indeed contradictions to the values of the faith, but those who supported and support these atrocities do so out of a fidelity to the faith as they’ve received it. What hope is there? This book does not address the American church’s fall into Trumpism, per se. But it is addressed to precisely that question: How can we honestly reckon with the harms of the Christian tradition? And what resources are there to salvage it so that it can take its place as part of the solution? It does so through a critical and dialectical appropriation of the ressourcement movement.
A product page for Ruptured Bodies: A Theology of the Church Divided, by Eugene R. Schlesinger on Amazon.com. The book is labeled as the #1 new release in “Anglican Christianity.”
A man in a hotdog suit, saying, “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.”
An iPhone Lock Screen, featuring an image of General William Tecumseh Sherman