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By secular Shulman means non-religious, but Christianity properly understood makes no distinction between wisdom found outside of the Church from that found within it. <\/p>\n

The Apostle Paul speaks of “the wisdom of the world” but there it means a kind of assumption of wisdom where none in fact exists. Reducing all wisdom to within the Church is merely the reverse of the secular paradigm, imposing a categorical distinction equally false. From the secular side it is a blindness towards the sacred dimension of existence; from the Christian side it is the belief that wisdom outside the Church is not possible. The distinction (which even believers in the sacramental churches — Orthodox, Catholic, some Lutherans and Episcopalians, etc. — have assimilated) is bound to modernistic assumptions — opposite sides of the same coin really.<\/p>\n

It’s fitting then, that such wisdom, although not drawn from Christian texts, is thoroughly Christian in insight and character — how could it be any other way? That it is given to us in narrative is even more appropriate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From: Gay Marriage — and Marriage by Sam Shulman. To me, what is at stake in this debate is not only the potential unhappiness of children, grave as that is; it is our ability to maintain the most basic components of our humanity. I believe, in fact, that we are at an “Antigone moment.” Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[11,1410],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7302"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7322,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302\/revisions\/7322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}