The Scriptures and the Created Order part 3: A Response to Fr. Tobias Haller’s, “True Union”

http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/8183/

[TitusOneNine] 7 Dec 2007--Don’t miss, moreover, the subtle relativization of the text of Genesis 1 in Fr. Haller’s first line. He sets Genesis 1 alongside other creation accounts. When this sort of thing is done it generally signals the first move in an attempt to deemphasize at best or reject at worst the divine origin of the biblical text, disarming and dismissing it as the product of ancient cosmological superstition and ignorance. That seems, unfortunately, to be Fr. Haller’s aim here: Genesis 1 is merely the Hebrew account of cosmic origin no more significant than any other ancient culturally bound account and, therefore, it’s focus on procreation ought not to be taken as seriously as it has in the past.