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"The breast-beating of the bourgeois is a self-indulgent, ineffective, and unlovely spectacle."
(Nicholas Lash, in Modern Theology, 2000)
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Christmas and New Year
Hello dear friends!
Not much time to write, but the first semester at JPII is logged. I passed Latin and German language exams this semester (with Greek and French still to go--since I got the Greek I've got a year to learn French and I'm all set), and I wrote about 90 pages of term papers. The Institute shuns technology so I've no way to ( Read more... ) -
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"To know and to have lost the power of learning, to be educated and to be unable still to improve one’s education, is to bring one’s life to a standstill, and the right name for that is not life but death" (B. Croce). -
Love in the Western World
"Denis de Rougemont in his book, Love in the Western World, claims that the repressive measures ostensibly successful in eliminating the Albigensians [heretical Gnostic Christian sect in 11th & 12th centuries], succeeded in driving some of these teachings underground, only to have them rise again as operative elements in the tradition of romantic ( Read more... ) -
Word cloud!
My Duke MTS friend Julius had the clever idea of making a Wordle word cloud out of his entire MTS thesis! I did the same cause I thought it was a neat idea; I used Tagxedo.
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Userpic
I'll also be doing some spring cleaning over the next few weeks with this journal. Nothing bad, but I realized I've not been using a proper array of userpics, and so forth. So first change is a new userpic addition: a photograph of a stained glass image of St. Timothy by Burne Jones in Oxford Cathedral. It is taken from this original photograph ( Read more... ) -
Christopher Johnson
"Which is worse? A particular decision made by a church? Or the mindset that led to that decision?
I still submit that a “church” that refused to convict James Pike of heresy because a heresy trial in this day and age would have been tres gauche is a “church” in which women’s ordination, prayer book evisceration and Gene Robinson were ( Read more... ) -
The Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom
Let all those who are devout and lovers of God enjoy this beautiful and radiant festival ( Read more... ) -
pange lingua
Faithful cross, above all other
one and only noble tree;
None in foliage, none in blossom,
none in fruit thy peers may be;
Sweetest wood and sweetest iron--
Sweetest Weight is hung on thee. -
Ecce Homo
Almighty God, we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given up into the hands of wicked men, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with thee and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end.
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