This just made me laugh... seriously it shows how 'theologies' are established and challenged as we wrestle with our understanding of God... it becomes dangerous if we declare things for all time, that are not clear or are at least debated! The argument has not been about the existence of 'Limbo' it hasn't really been part of Catholic teaching for years... what is in question is what happens to doctrine when it becomes ridiculous?
Father Harrison (A Catholic Theologian) told the BBC...
"A papal decree reversing the firm Catholic belief of two millennia that infants dying unbaptised do not go to heaven would be like an earthquake in the structure of Catholic theology and belief,"If we base our community and it's theology on ideas that become enshrined... when they get challenged it becomes increasingly hard not to challenge the structure itself! Perhaps there is s danger that our Theology can itself become an Idol and not an Icon... an object of 'worship' itself instead of a pointer to the invisible. Perhaps then all Theologies need to have built in provisionality (some maybe even obsolescence?) ... we hold them in sincerity, but recognise that they are only shadows of the glory of God and not the stuff of which God is made.
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