I suppose Rodney can be a wandering scholar but I don't think there *is* such a thing as a "lay priest"
In the middle ages, yes. You're right in that Rodney, lay priest or not, would be ordained; and lay priest is, really synonymous with diocesan priest, in that they weren't attached to a monastic order but worked with and among the laity. So we're really talking about the same thing, but with different terminology. (I am not quite sure what was wrong with my brain there XD)
P.P.P.S. - Besides, even a "brother" takes the vow of celibacy, if that's what is worrying you! You can't get around it that way!
Well, I wasn't looking to get around it; most of my thought was revolving around what, exactly, Rodney's relationship to the Church would be, not necessarily his sex life. I can see Rodney enjoying university disputation a lot (and remaining in a university setting as a lecturer), but I can also see him being deeply, deeply unhappy with the metaphysical obsessions of the scholiasts, and the crackdown on post-Aquinas scholasticism in the second part of the 13th century. He'd probably be a huge fan of Bacon, and recognizing that disputation and logical deduction is, in some things, not useful to acquiring knowledge... And a lot of this really isn't conducive to being a champion of orthodoxy :>
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In the middle ages, yes. You're right in that Rodney, lay priest or not, would be ordained; and lay priest is, really synonymous with diocesan priest, in that they weren't attached to a monastic order but worked with and among the laity. So we're really talking about the same thing, but with different terminology. (I am not quite sure what was wrong with my brain there XD)
P.P.P.S. - Besides, even a "brother" takes the vow of celibacy, if that's what is worrying you! You can't get around it that way!
Well, I wasn't looking to get around it; most of my thought was revolving around what, exactly, Rodney's relationship to the Church would be, not necessarily his sex life. I can see Rodney enjoying university disputation a lot (and remaining in a university setting as a lecturer), but I can also see him being deeply, deeply unhappy with the metaphysical obsessions of the scholiasts, and the crackdown on post-Aquinas scholasticism in the second part of the 13th century. He'd probably be a huge fan of Bacon, and recognizing that disputation and logical deduction is, in some things, not useful to acquiring knowledge... And a lot of this really isn't conducive to being a champion of orthodoxy :>