Jacob Phillips

Catholic. Professor of Systematic Theology. Hierarchical communitarianism. 'The gentlest face of Integralism' - Worker and Parasite pod.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

The discourse about Ayaan Hirsi Ali and civilisational Christianity made me think back to that devastatingly unwelcome moment when I realised not only that I believed in God, but I was even going to have to seek baptism, for @TheCriticMag.
https://t.co/NDknZqHx7M

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

Some people still honestly believe you can get the laws right and then the state will somehow be able finally to enable the healthy expression of human sexuality, when the fundamentals are metaphysical and cultural, not juridical or political.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Should the age of consent be staggered?

Comedian David Walliams has been accused of grooming fans he met when they were as young as 15 in an investigation by the Guardian and ITV News.

In a video first published in May, @AyoCaesar argues that at 16, people are old enough to want to explore sex, but they should still be protected from coercion and manipulation by people who are much older.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@postlibfem Yes, please do.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

The Global Working Group
on Vatican II website is live 🔥

We presume a conciliar hermeneutic of “reform within continuity” or even “continuity through reform.”

https://t.co/yyg69oe5QC

[Josh Hochschild @JoshHochschild]

“The unborn already belong to the human family”

More powerful and primal framing there than the metaphysical (“personhood”) or the moral-political (“rights”).

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

I'm up on @Cath_Culture talking about this.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@willanselme What a quote.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

Deciding if a baptism is 'genuine' is an interesting one.
People are radically changed by baptism, but if he's guilty (he is), and baptised in good faith, the internal gymnastics required somehow to right oneself with not confessing and just serving the time is pretty wild.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

I'm up on @Cath_Culture talking about this.

[Catholic Culture @Cath_Culture]

“Queer theology” has no place in the Church (Jacob Phillips) https://t.co/zJeLrQsLx8

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@OTSOTA I didn't do any of that.

There is no evidence. God only knows.

I'm saying that if it is genuine, he's somehow managed to convince himself that he needn't confess now, and that requires complex interlocking layers of self-delusion - which is perfectly possible.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

How about situating safeguarding within an environment that takes responsibility for producing meaningful contributions to culture, reflecting the traditional guardrails that more genuinely safeguarded human behaviour for centuries before the world that lauded Brand was invented

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@JDMikeJ Politically, ok, I agree in a way. But I think there's a swing in the intensity of rhetoric, and the expectations that go with it.
From a British perspective, the problem is that the right have never effectively implemented significant change, yet the left are quite good at it.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

An argument I've used in defence of Pope Leo XIV, being myself deeply conservative, has centred on how he's deftly avoided any sense of a violent pendulum swing away from the all the things involved in his predecessor's tenure.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@canisgrisevs Sure.
My underlying point is that the Catholic faith is true, and so the Church can't get caught up in the reduction of truth to being entirely relative to whoever is in power. Excesses and mistakes have to be corrected, but without making more errors.

[Dr. Matthew Ramage @matthewjramage]

It’s official: Cosmic Covenant: A Catholic Theology of Creation is published today! Its already sold through its initial Amazon stock, but you can get it directly through Word on Fire. https://t.co/sLXyj95q4m

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@markdwildman Wonderful.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@markdwildman Thanks. Do give him my regards if you get closer next time.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@VendeeRadio The culture wars also lead to factions springing up within factions, which then waste all their energy battling against their nearest allies rather than the genuine foe they both actually share.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

@OTSOTA Lol, ok.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

It means MAGA does the very thing (Middle Eastern war) it stood against, and now Democrat rallies have audiences gleefully chanting divine praises from the Qu'ran.

Slowing the momentum of the swing is noble wisdom.
It just means the very online on both sides get a bit stroppy.

[Jacob Phillips @Counteredlogos]

The pendulum swing is a basic feature of the culture wars era. It means that successive governments go further than their predecessors in the opposite direction, meaning the inevitable descent has yet more momentum to continue the pattern with more intensity, ad infinitum.