medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
You will have seen from my original message that this is not my area. I
made my comment, based moreso on my own identity and sense of self-irony, in
total ignorance of an obviously hard-fought debate which has focussed on
this very point - I unwittingly stumbled upon such terrain as the
*stubborness* (such unfortunate choice of word - oh that I had known!) of
the Irish and I quite readily appreciate your concern to state the facts.
Apologies if I have in any way given offence and thank you for your
elaboration of a fascinating discourse.
Marian
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From: "Francine Nicholson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: [M-R] Easter Celebration
> 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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