catapult magazine

catapult magazine
 

discussion

How important is the church?

Default

sgassanov
Sep 12 2002
12:35 pm

Hi guys! I’ve finally figured out how to get on this thing: this is really cool. I’m quite impressed: bravo, to the originators and technical supporters!

I’ll jot a few thoughts though my last “mental errands” have not yet been appraised. It should be fairly clear why the church-modelling for all other kinds of human communities is a bad idea. I am not sure how we could avoid the problem that Grant alerts us to: church becoming a monstrosity that overtakes over the entire social world. Grant, I do not propose for a state to have somehow “broader” scope of responsibility. What I, or the Reformational and Catholic traditions of social thought, are recommending is a different kind of responsibility that states and religious institutions ought to entertain.

Enough for now…