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    Antonio Spadaro‏Verified account @antoniospadaro 15 Jan 2017

    One of the characteristic of a rigid thought is that it doesn't understand metaphors. And the #Gospel is packed with #metaphors...

    7:29 PM - 15 Jan 2017 from Rome, Lazio
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      2. Archb Mark Coleridge‏ @ArchbishopMark 15 Jan 2017
        Replying to @antoniospadaro

        The whole Bible is a great mosaic of metaphor - which always subverts conventional perceptions to bring new ones to birth.

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      3. Deborah Gyapong‏ @dhgyapong 18 Jan 2017
        Replying to @ArchbishopMark @antoniospadaro

        There's using Christ's Resurrection as a metaphor for bringing new things to birth. Is that all it is?

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      4. Archb Mark Coleridge‏ @ArchbishopMark 18 Jan 2017
        Replying to @dhgyapong @antoniospadaro

        No.

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      5. Antonio Spadaro‏Verified account @antoniospadaro 18 Jan 2017
        Replying to @ArchbishopMark @dhgyapong

        No

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      1. Archb Mark Coleridge‏ @ArchbishopMark 15 Jan 2017
        Replying to @antoniospadaro

        Shakespeare was a supreme maker of metaphor which is why it's been said of him that he's only a commentator on the Bible.

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      2. Fr. Robbie‏ @brokenson225 16 Jan 2017
        Replying to @antoniospadaro

        that is why we don't encourage literal interpretations of the Bible. :)

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      3. Thaddeus  😐‏ @Terry_T_Bone 16 Jan 2017
        Replying to @brokenson225 @antoniospadaro

        so it would seem we should encourage the literal, as the first step towards the allegorical, the moral, etc...

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      4. Fr. Robbie‏ @brokenson225 16 Jan 2017
        Replying to @Terry_T_Bone @antoniospadaro

        yes that is in the CCC 115-119. That may be a good starting point but of course not the end itself.

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      5. Thaddeus  😐‏ @Terry_T_Bone 16 Jan 2017
        Replying to @brokenson225 @antoniospadaro

        not the end, certainly! But still to be held in tension with the other senses.

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      6. Fr. Robbie‏ @brokenson225 16 Jan 2017
        Replying to @Terry_T_Bone @antoniospadaro

        yes i agree to this.

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      1. Deborah Gyapong‏ @dhgyapong 18 Jan 2017
        Replying to @antoniospadaro

        Many think the Resurrection is a metaphor or that when Jesus said, "This is my Body," he was speaking symbolically.

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      1. Fr. Matt Bozovsky‏ @FrMatt2013 15 Jan 2017
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        Also much that isn't metaphor that some mistakenly think is, like John 6. Faithfulness to Tradition clarifies the difference

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      1. Jonathan Lace‏ @jonathanlace 16 Jan 2017
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        Scripture includes examples of inspired disruptions of rigidity. Acts 15 is a story of a discerning Church vs. literalism.

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      1. Karl J Brown‏ @KarlJosephBrown 15 Jan 2017
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        Amen to that!

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      1. The gnostic‏ @the_gnos 15 Jan 2017
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        the lowest denominator is literalism

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      1. Barry Schoedel‏ @BarrySchoedel 15 Jan 2017
        Replying to @antoniospadaro

        laxity and rigidity both criticized by +Francis. Rigidity seems closely linked w scrupulosity, laxity w indifference to sin.

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