Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Glad to be at the annual meeting for the North American Academy of Ecumenists “The Common Good in our Common Home: World Christianity, Earth Community’s, and the Realm of God” Thanks to Princeton Theological Seminary for hosting 030
Reposted by Jakob Karl RinderknechtAnne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Heyyyy Dr. Chad Pecknold, CUA theologian on loan to DHS for outreach: how's it going? We doing any unconscionable moral evils over there? 1232
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In order to understand this, it is easiest to turn to the field of Calculus 021
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026To be peak lonarganianism it needs at least one word in the post that you think you understand but don’t 121
Reposted by Jakob Karl RinderknechtAnne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"For what it’s worth, my own judgment is that Pecknold desperately needs pastoral guidance and, indeed, correction. Pecknold seems unwilling to think with the Church about immigration and overzealous to contribute to this administration’s evils." www.commonwealmagazine.org/heaps-peckno...commonwealmagazine.orgChad Pecknold’s New JobBy taking a job at Trump's DHS, theologian Chad Pecknold reveals a desperate need for pastoral guidance and correction. 2153
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026And of course, there’s Varican I’s Pastor Aeternus ( I should have not skipped that one!!) several anathemas there re: the papal office in particular (Sorry!) www.papalencyclicals.net/councils/ecu...papalencyclicals.netDecrees of the First Vatican Council - Papal EncyclicalsThis council was summoned by Pope Pius IX by the bull Aeterni Patris of 29 June 1868. The first session was held in St Peter’s basilica on 8 December 1869. 110
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"The church is...the community of persons brought together by the profession of the same XPn faith and conjoined in the communion of the same sacraments, under the government of their legitimate pastors and especially the one vicar of XP on earth, the Roman pontiff." Bellarmine.De controversiis,195. 110
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Bellarmine is the classic. Not magisterial. But his “the church is as visible as the kingdom of France…” is the basic position contra Protestantism. 110
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Yes- but I’ll have to look up specifics. I’ll try to get to it tonight 010
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026But systematic ecclesiology is a historically recent discipline 140
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Much of these questions were primarily magisterially engaged through canon law previously. There’s some condemnations of what they thought Protestants were doing about invisible church questions too. 230
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Mystici corporis would be one. There’s not a ton in terms of magisterial ecclesiology. Some important figures. What are you looking to engage? 230
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Kinda wild that ND thinks that “The successful candidate will show evidence of a field-leading contribution to their field of expertise,” is appropriate for an entry-level assistant professor job 010
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is probably Fr Mueller’s most important article 020
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Literally 100 years before it’s promulgated. Again. Just not what contemporary Catholics think happened 230
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026So- since the Lake Ontario nonsense fails to notice that the province is named after the lake (and not the other way around) What shall we rename Americo Vespucci? 130
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026He might be saying that grammatical gender is ancient and that that ancient reality was a better insight into the relationships of domination and submission that structure a universe with God at the top. But that’s not really better. 130
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026So yes. While you could- he is explicitly not doing so. And is so committed to the gender aspect that he’s making arguments that go against his actual field of study (grammatical gender is universal (it’s not) and therefore defines a gendered-hierarchical universe) to support it 110
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It’s also cited by contemporary Catholics and evangelicals in an explicit bid to make women lesser (while denying that they are doing so). While this use is not Lewis’s fault- it is the obvious outcome of his writing. 120
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I think it’s terrible. And also just downright egotism. It’s not a mistake that the new savior of humanity is a philosopher king in his own image to which others submit in order to be saved. 000
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026That’s fair. I guess I’m saying that structures that are built for him are invisible to him. But as a humanist he’s aware that the natural sciences are getting all the prestige at the university…. And that affects him 130
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Also I will be forever mad about her tainting my initials 130
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026But I certainly get (and share) the animus, since he’s being cited still (by evangelicals and one cardinal prefect of the CDF about why Christianity teaches that women are different in a way that *totally* isn’t lesser in Gods eyes but requires their submission and obedience and lack of public role 020
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Which means he’s in a very typical position: he’s thinking within a structure that works for him and hasn’t done the work to ask why whether his experience is universal. Doesn’t absolve him of the need to do so. We certainly shouldn’t listen to him. But it explains him as a person not as a monster 350
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Interesting. I think his gender stuff is (quite bad&) an outgrowth of his Christendom sense of what the reign of God is. Bc England is called to be healed England, the things he likes (order&hierarchy) are in his mind perfected merely by having pure rulers (wo asking abt the structures themselves) 140
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Which means that we know “the problem of Susan” is likely a problem because of what he writes elsewhere, not merely on its own, right? 130
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Yeah. I read it as “I have warm feelings about these children’s books and don’t care to learn anything.” Which exactly is the kind of team based argument you’re warning about. With a side of nostalgia 140
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Ok. But this is a bad faith argument. CSLewis is clearly a misogynist because of his repeated writings (in the space trilogy, for example) about how women cannot be saved except by submitting to men because hierarchy is what saves us 140
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026@catholickungfu.bsky.social - Maybe if we write that article on KR, HUvB and the Supernatural Existential, we can convince them to include (fig.1) and close the lacuna 😄 130
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Maybe someone should collect a “clip art for teaching theology” collection 040
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I think it is somehow impossible to teach KR without sketching this stick figure. And yet I have *never * seen it in print. Bob Mason used to draw the stick figure with a little Marquette hat 240
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It’s just one of those places where the church doing the clasping is clearly the church triumphant /eschatological. But people tend to flatten it into the Curia/bishops (who are of course *also* the sinners being clasped) 020
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I think this pattern is also in LG where the church is both eschatological and also “semper purificanda”. The holiness that exists is always proleptic, but nevertheless real. Which is how you get that weird “clutching sinners to her bosom” image. 121
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026There is always a tendency to flatten though it’s a tough balance to hold onto 120
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Huh. Maybe I’m reading this (ironically) through Luther? Where everyone/thing created has a Iustus and a Peccator aspect. The holiness that exists is always because of God (L would say XP, but the HS is the Spirit of XP etc). Our not-yet -perfected self is awaiting the final healing (by XP/ HS) 120
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The bishop is at least a couple steps ahead of the counter- (/Catholic) -) reformation impulse to merely assert that the visible church is perfect (since the Lutherans denied it). But since he’s generally pope-skeptical, he really couldn’t do anything else. And this is such faint praise? 120
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026And of course the Holy Spirit is what work. In all the ways that that’s true in a single life too. With human freedom and gift and sin and redemption. 130
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Governance is navigating the structures to make those decisions real - which can be done through charisma or legislation (both always, but the balance) and can rely on others because of their offices or because of who they are. But all of this builds culture, which determines what actually happens 130
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Yeah I think that makes sense. There’s also a spectrum I think between those who navigate primarily through charisma (more JP2) and those who do through emphasizing office (Benedict). I think a similar effect is between Francis and Leo. But it’s still early 130
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Downside of doing ecclesiology. Which everyone dabbles in because it’s everywhere. 😉 150
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026*Parts* of governance. He did care a lot about the CIC for example 160
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026None of which is questioning whether either fulfilled the office. Just considering how they did so. 020
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Like: JP2’s conviction that God wanted him to serve until death means that there were multiple years in which the papal office was politically weak and the dicasteries jockeyed for influence (which they had already practiced for much of his reign, given his seemingly low interest in governance) 270
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026On the other hand: this is a decent critique of Benedict as a doer of the public office of pope. Which we can judge by a variety of metrics (theological, political, practical, personal, etc) 191
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social · 07/08/2026static.klipy.comSabrina Carpenter SabrinaALT: Sabrina Carpenter Sabrina 010
