Predictive theology: reading Stove’s http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html … I guessed that the baffling “filioque” was actually about power politics.
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Prediction confirmed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque It’s a symbolic proxy for intra-church wrangling for positions of authority.
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My prediction was based partly on general cynicism, but much more on having read way too much of the history of Buddhological disputes.
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Stove’s positivism led him to miss the point. He took “filioque” to be an actual (if wrong-headed) discussion of the Holy Ghost.
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Buddhist disputes are supposedly about the Nature of Reality and Enlightenment, but often actually about who got the money, power, & girls.
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Don't think Buddhists have a lock on that particular dynamic.
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Indeed! Just the case I’ve studied most.
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