I have a couple of questions about this. What evidence did Ratzinger (1958) use to support his argument? I have heard of this paper before. Similarly, the same question for the letter by Cardinal Suhard. Did they have an explanation for this? That is, did they know why paganism had entered the Church? (At the 60th anniversary of a priest ordained in 1948, this priest stated that the smoke of Satan was in the Benedictine monastery where he was formed.).
Finally there is series of talks by the Late Father John Hunwicke, available on YouTube, that offers the basis for my hypothesis: so-called higher criticism of sacred texts prevented clergy from being able to read the texts of the Bible correctly. The same techniques of higher criticism were also applied to liturgy, resulting in the neglect of what linguists, such as Christine Mohrman had to say about liturgy (most importantly that the language of the liturgy was not every day Greek or Latin spoken by early Christians). Hunwicke’s talks were about the “grammar” of the Bible and the liturgy.
I have a couple of questions about this. What evidence did Ratzinger (1958) use to support his argument? I have heard of this paper before. Similarly, the same question for the letter by Cardinal Suhard. Did they have an explanation for this? That is, did they know why paganism had entered the Church? (At the 60th anniversary of a priest ordained in 1948, this priest stated that the smoke of Satan was in the Benedictine monastery where he was formed.).
Finally there is series of talks by the Late Father John Hunwicke, available on YouTube, that offers the basis for my hypothesis: so-called higher criticism of sacred texts prevented clergy from being able to read the texts of the Bible correctly. The same techniques of higher criticism were also applied to liturgy, resulting in the neglect of what linguists, such as Christine Mohrman had to say about liturgy (most importantly that the language of the liturgy was not every day Greek or Latin spoken by early Christians). Hunwicke’s talks were about the “grammar” of the Bible and the liturgy.