Jared Michelson

Gifford Fellow, University of St Andrews

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@TomosGRY Congrats!

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Fantastic reflections from Marietta van der Tol on the way 'traditionalism' and the new right can be, ironically, insufficiently traditional and conservative

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What distinguishes a deep-rootedness in tradition from a consumerist appropriation of it? Marietta van der Tol examines the new traditionalism and asks whether its hunger for meaning and historical depth is all it claims to be.

https://t.co/3ZOxOydjzY

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What distinguishes a deep-rootedness in tradition from a consumerist appropriation of it? Marietta van der Tol examines the new traditionalism and asks whether its hunger for meaning and historical depth is all it claims to be.

https://t.co/3ZOxOydjzY

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@DrJamesEglinton Great point, albeit the former ‘apology’ is merely performative, rooted in a sincerity ethic. No one assumes blame is actually being admitted so the Kantian individualism is still tacitly assumed and the apology is only a pseudo one… Merely the ghost of a Christian self, perhaps

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Subscribe to this new podcast on faith and public life. Hosted by my friend Jasper who is interviewing contributors to our journal, Between Times, digging deeper into the stories behind their contributors and pressing questions folks have raised. We chat here about ‘tolerance’

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Introducing the Between Times Podcast. A new companion to the journal where we sit down with the authors behind our articles.

First episode live now, with Jared Michelson on his article exploring tolerance, on all podcast platforms and our website:
https://t.co/lhkHGcnCLi

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The principal thing in politics consists not in satisfying covetousness nor yet in external domination...but in the slow and difficult march toward an historic ideal of fraternal friendship among the wounded children of an unhappy species made for supreme happiness - J. Maritain

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@neulsaem Fantastic! Well deserved, many times over. I hope very much to hear your 'viva stories,' soon. Congrats.

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@TonyReinke Excellent list of qualifications. FWIW, my suspicion is yes due to the ubiquity of deification style language across reformed theologians and because many 'paradigm' proponents of deification agree with many of these qualifications while still 'counting' as proponents of theosis

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Why do modern persons feel caught between two worlds? Is it secularisation? Disenchantment? Scientific rationalism? A lecture I gave with @facmcambridge at St Catherine's College, Cambridge concerning how our view of God is central to these questions https://t.co/s8ZvC1d41E

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@JamesArcadi Genuinely not ‘having a go’, AT is great

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A ‘reformed Thomist’ converts to Roman Catholicism, explaining that they are just following Thomas.
Cue a flurry of responses, saying this proves ‘Thomas’ is not the answer, rather: van til is, Hodge is, Scotus is, Suarez is, reformed scholasticism is, analytic theology is…

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@JamesArcadi thinking the analytic trad has all answers (FWIW, none of best ATs make this error in my view)
ATs saying ‘I told you this would happen’ and suggesting the problem is that someone is ‘too thomistic’ misdiagnoses the problem, and missed that AT (like all trad’s) faces same danger

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@neulsaem Yes, pure independence is an illusion. My concern: when we begin to subtly view ourselves as disciples or as 'merely' submitting to a person or school, we obscure the inevitable fact that every tradition is critically 'constructed' and we are responsibile for those constructions

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'Even in church traditions that hold a strong view of the stability of tradition, a purely Thomistic approach is no longer widely maintained.'
Between Times launches an edition on how (not) to appeal to tradition. The list of contributors is stellar. See the first article:

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Is tradition simply handed down, or something constantly selected, interpreted, and reshaped?
In our opening editorial for the latest issue of Between Times, Jasper Knecht examines why tradition is never quite as fixed as it seems, and why that matters.
https://t.co/wvK3n5gNo9

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natural theology, and so on) are more fundamentally about which team we root our sense of identity and security in.
Rather than suggesting who we should choose ‘instead of’ Thomas, might a better lesson be to resist what is unhelpful in this dynamic?

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Perhaps instead a problem is theology is too often driven by the ethics of authenticity. We identify the ‘best’ tradition/school/theologian in order to model ourselves upon them. Many debates supposedly concerning fine points of doctrine (eg univocity, Christendom,

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Moving reflections on religious decline from Karen Kilby. I was particularly struck by her description of what is lost when a community loses its church:
https://t.co/i5wMj83OW6

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What differences can the church truly bear, and at what point does tolerance cease to be a virtue and become indifference?
@jaredmichelson revisits the architecture of tolerance, clarifying what it is, what it is not, and why recovering it matters now.
https://t.co/waF9uqk5u7

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@PaulVanderKlay @ericschlukebir @BenGresik I very much enjoyed the straight forward way you recounted the story. It accented that this is a 'normal' part of pastoral ministry. I trust most pastors have stories like this (I do), but it feels very striking over-against the way ministry is usually portrayed online...