dhosek@lucy.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (05/24/91)
In article <May.22.20.42.58.1991.20345@athos.rutgers.edu>, conan@lipton.berkeley.edu (David Cruz-Uribe) writes: > In article <May.17.02.51.54.1991.28071@athos.rutgers.edu> jhpb@garage.att.com (Joseph H Buehler) writes: >>I frankly do not think there are any Catholics present who are competent >>to defend the idea that women should be ordained. To deal adequately >>with the issue requires training far above and beyond anything that a >>layman is likely to possess, at the very least. > Ignoring the actual discussion in progress, I find this to be an amazingly > presumptuous statement. There are many extraordinarily talented lay > theologians--to the best of my understanding, theological knowledge is > not one of the charisms of ordinatiion. Well, I interpretted "layman" not necessarily to mean non-priest, but simply an untrained individual. Not that I necessarily agree (although on the other hand, nor do I feel qualified enough to say anything more than that I believe women can be validly ordained without much more force than that) but it is a worthwhile point. Someone else brought up an interesting scripture on knowledge in another posting. -dh -- Don Hosek dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu Quixote Digital Typography 714-625-0147