Friday, 8 January 2021

Future Catholicism

In Poul Anderson's Technic History:

a new denominational name, Jerusalem Catholic;
 
a new religious order, the Galilean Order;
 
potentially a new doctrine, the Universal Incarnation, which Fr. Axor investigates
 
The Universal Incarnation can be defined as a doctrine if it can be shown to follow from scripture, e.g., Mt. 28:19-20; Jn. 10: 16, or from tradition. Meanwhile, what does Axor find when he continues his research funded by Dominic Flandry whose murdered fiancee is canonized by her fellow Orthochristians?

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And this reminded me of my article "God and Alien in Anderson's Technic Civilization," discussing similar topics. I might have argued with Fr. Axor that, given both FTL and orthodox Christianity accepting non human converts, would it really be necessary for Our Lord to become Incarnate on other worlds? One of the sources I quoted in my article suggested that if non human intelligent races exist and if they have Fallen, then God would provide for offering salvation to them (including the possibility of our Catholic Church being given that task).

Ad astra! Sean