I, too, like to assume the worst about peoplehttps://twitter.com/RelapsedCath/status/761199846707585024 …
Agreed--that He learns and can be surprised is part of His humanity. But two things about Fr Martin's read bugged me...
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first is that he "changed his mind;" it seems more like he realized that this woman was counted among the children...
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...than that he changed his mind and gave the children's food to the dogs (to use the metaphor from the reading)
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second--more important--is that Martin says Jesus learned from this "wise woman;" but she is *faithful* not *wise*
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the passage is "the Canaanite woman's faith," not "the Canaanite woman's wisdom;" Jesus says "O woman, great is your faith!"
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...rather than saying "great is your wisdom!" http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/15 …
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a good perspective. But perhaps there is wisdom in having great faith.
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perhaps; I just feel like the idolatry of intelligence is a big problem nowadays among the religious AND the secular...
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...and that faith in its own right is more deserving of praise
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