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A Reply to Pope Francis' Latest Critique of Gender Theory

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But if it is the case that communion is the necessary condition without which the three supposed divine persons constitute the monotheistic God, then we have just reasoned our way to the conclusion that communion must be of the essence of the orthodox Christian deity.

Therefore, if all human persons are made in the image of the orthodox Christian God, then communion must of necessity also be part of human nature -- and not just stereotypically part of the nature of girls and women but not part of the nature of boys and men.

So if communion is part of the nature of not only girls and women but also boys and men, then Pope Francis' latest critique of gender theory does not appear to be consistent with orthodox Christian theory about the supposed divine trinity.

No doubt Pope Francis is a charismatic sweet-talker.

No doubt he is going to say more about his mistaken views in his already announced next public statement about these matters.

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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