I forgot to mention that part of the reason I want to keep Latin in the Church is that so much of the doctrine, dogma, and history is predicate on Latin, and not undserstanding the core language of the tenets on which the religion is derived makes for a lot of confusion (sort of like a self-induced tower of babel).
I don't want to see it (Latin) fetishized to the point of becoming a magical religion (which some aspects of Orthodox Judaism do) but there is something to be said for anyone in the faith being able to discuss the meaning of the text, without the pains of translating the terms (this, again, doesn't get into the question of textual accuracy, and transmission of scribal error; nor yet the intent of such errors when knowingly introduced; exegis is a whole 'nother can o' worms, and one which a panel deciding orthodoxy can [and has] caused to set into concrete, some old worldviews which are against what I see as basic principles of human rights and dignity, but I am a Catholic who 1: grew up in an overtly religious society, and 2: that society is protestant, which has a tradition of individual interpretation; which I have absorbed, which means I tend to analyse doctrine, and live according to my interpretations; guided by that doctrine. That's a whole 'nother can 'o worms too).
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Date: 2006-09-20 07:15 pm (UTC)I don't want to see it (Latin) fetishized to the point of becoming a magical religion (which some aspects of Orthodox Judaism do) but there is something to be said for anyone in the faith being able to discuss the meaning of the text, without the pains of translating the terms (this, again, doesn't get into the question of textual accuracy, and transmission of scribal error; nor yet the intent of such errors when knowingly introduced; exegis is a whole 'nother can o' worms, and one which a panel deciding orthodoxy can [and has] caused to set into concrete, some old worldviews which are against what I see as basic principles of human rights and dignity, but I am a Catholic who 1: grew up in an overtly religious society, and 2: that society is protestant, which has a tradition of individual interpretation; which I have absorbed, which means I tend to analyse doctrine, and live according to my interpretations; guided by that doctrine. That's a whole 'nother can 'o worms too).
TK