Religion & Law

Thanks very much, Michael, for your interesting questions.

Your first question:  ?[D]oes the Tradition . . . support your post-metaphysical, apophatic Catholic Christianity??  The Tradition is capacious enough to include a non-metaphysical, apophatic theology (theo-logos, talk about God), and one who adheres to such a theology--the later Merton, for example--is an heir to and in the company of, among others, Meister Eckhart.

Your second question:  ?[I]s there a connection between your theology (post-metaphysical, apophatic Catholic/Christian) and your sexual ethics??  The former certainly does not entail the latter?any more than a metaphysical, non-apophatic theology entails the Church?s traditional sexual morality.  A natural-law approach to sexual morality, such as Margaret Farley?s, and indeed a natural-law approach to all moral questions, is consistent with your theology, with mine, and, of course, even with non-belief.

Happy New Year!