medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>From: Marian McHugh <[log in to unmask]>
>My closing comment to Phyllis was one meant to be understood as
>good-humoured *irony* - not to be taken too seriously!
Understood--it's just that I'd been rereading Jerome on Pelagius, and
thinking how so often advocacy of a minority view was and is condemned as
stubbornness, instead of the ideas being considered for their own worth. I'd
also been rereading the account of how the Easter issue was settled: both
sides made their cases to the king of Northumbria who decided that since he
wanted to go to heaven and since St. Peter determined who got into heaven,
he (the king) had better follow the way of St. Peter (as represented by Rome
and those who said their way of calculating Easter was the way of Peter).
And yet instead of this being seen as a political decision, it's
consistently depicted as the Irish being stubborn in the face of the
authority of the church. The way I see it, they were advocating tradition
and theology over power structures, but resistance to authority is often
characterized as "stubbornness" rather than being respected as "dissent."
Francine Nicholson
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