Thursday, August 3, 2006
Lemmon's argument for all-male priesthood.
Lisa's post quotes from an Logos article by Lemmons explaining that the masculinity of Christ is necessary, not for his humanitarian mission, but for his gender mission of restoring heterosexual unity. I don't have access to the entire piece, but confess that the quoted portion leaves me puzzled. I must be missing something, but even if original sin "deeply affected the unity of man and women," it is not clear to me why Christ had to be male to restore that unity. Why is it that "[t]he masculinity of Christ is crucial to his mission of remedying the effect of original sin"?
Of course a separate issue is: even if masculinity was crucial to Christ's mission, there is still a leap to saying that masculinity is crucial to a priest's role.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2006/08/lemmons_argumen.html