H.E. Cardinal Kaspar frustrated that dialogue with, for instance, Reform groups involves lots of democracy and ratification on their part (no central figure invested with voice and authority of group). But, at least is possible. Dialogue with Pentecostals, who are growing massively in Italy and Europe, is impossible because they have no theology. That's an almost exact quote.
I mentioned below that Prof. Diane Lipsett delivered a wonderful lecture on the conversation currently taking place between New Testament scholars, family historians, social archaeologists and the like. The title of this post is actually the title of en entire semester-long course taught by Prof. Lipsett, so for our, geez, ninety minute session she condensed her focus to Men, Women, and Children in Ancient Rome. With her permission, I am posting my notes from this lecture below, tweaked a little for readability. Prof. Lipsett is interested in studies of gender formation among non-elites as well as elites, those people about whom we know much less because they did not have the resources or clout to commemorate and study themselves, generally speaking. Roman households were much broader than we conceive of in modern terms, with a wide spectrum of people connected by family and employment living under one roof (the terms domus/eikos/ikea capture this idea of an indiscriminate household
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Thanks for the quote.
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