Sunday, September 06, 2020
Saturday, September 05, 2020
"Christ, Culture & New Europe" by Remi Brague
Christ, Culture & New Europe by Remi Brague https://t.co/atFaBel5St
— Levan Ramishvili (@levanrami) September 5, 2020
I myself was privileged to witness some of all this at first hand in late October of 1991, when I was invited by the Pontifical Council for Culture to take part in a symposium of European intellectuals that was meant to offer the bishops of the Synod food for thought. Among the forty people present—almost all of them lay men and women—fewer than ten came from the countries of Western Europe. Most of those present were from the former Soviet Union or from Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc. It is interesting for Western Europeans to note that the term “Eastern Europe” was deeply frowned upon by the participants from these latter countries, who insisted instead on “Central Europe.” The very idea of an Eastern Europe, they said, was one more lie of Soviet propaganda, used to justify the Red Army’s artificial division of Europe into East and West. The “Church of silence” could be heard again, and the first thing it had to tell us was that it had never been completely gagged and that we. Western Christians, had too often and for too long been a Church of deafness. And the Pope was clearly eager to see the reintegration of Europe’s Eastern and Central parts.
In addition, we Westerners were reminded of a few basic historic facts. We were reminded, for instance, that Prague is almost as “western” as Berlin, and more so than Vienna or Stockholm. We had to learn once again that it had been the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, and that it harbored Europe’s first university. We were invited to bear in mind that our intellectuals frequently helped to throw people living under Communist rule into despair by playing footsie with Marxist ideology while they one after another hallowed each new earthly paradise it was giving birth to. As a Frenchman, I experienced a vicarious embarrassment about my country’s role in the post-World War I creation of Czechoslovakia and, even worse, Yugoslavia. These completely artificial states, welding together peoples who had either never lived together or had not done so for centuries—people whose religions, languages, histories, and levels of economic and social development were widely disparate—are the result of the shortsightedness of politicians who were by and large my fellow countrymen.I am reminded of Taft when he writes: "What makes this task difficult is that memories of European peoples are poisoned with the recollections of wrongs done to and suffered by one another. If some way is not found to heal these wounds, everywhere in Europe and in the former USSR, they will fester and keep alive the longing for vengeance." We need Christ for the healing of memories, and traditionalists of every jurisdiction who cannot reach out to those in other jurisdictions in charity are poor represesntatives of Christ. Are there differences in preferred dogma? Yes, and Rome will need to lead the way in reconsidering what they have advanced as dogma of the "Church." The healing of memories will not be accomplished by a secularist movement or the strengthening of the EU. The churches must be strengthened in Christ, and this will require ecclesial reform, not the same old but more from Rome.
An Argument Against Centralized Authority
"Kühn’s reputation was conservative." That whole con/lib spectrum model is dead. If true about BXI Emeritus, this is worse than BAD. https://t.co/ly2B5JCN6V
— Patrick Coffin (@Patrick_Coffin) September 5, 2020
This is a serious allegation of cover-up by Benedict XVI. He must tell the truth, unlike his successor Francis, who has a sinister record of protecting abusers. NB: clerical predators often come from the “orthodox” wing of the Church. https://t.co/rt2y7sJqY7
— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) September 5, 2020
David Balfour
the threadBonjour the unroll you asked for: Thread by @HKSandham: "Did you hear the one about the Greek monk who was really a British spy? Thread. In the Oxford cemetery where Tolkien is […]" https://t.co/6ltgkUzdNj
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) November 7, 2019
Have a good day. 🤖
The Prophet Zachariah and the Righteous Elizabeth
The Orthodox Church commemorates today the Prophet Zachariah#orthodox_times https://t.co/VCBTumqBAp
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) September 5, 2020
Chalcedonian Orthodox Temples
I am so excited to share with you “Neither Here nor in Jerusalem”
— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) August 30, 2020
This brand new series will explore the temples and holy places of the Orthodox world!
This is a journey that ends in the Kingdom of God!https://t.co/TMGcjwK9MF
Eastern Christian Books: The Dynamic Legacies of Cities and Councils of Eastern Christian Antiquity
Friday, September 04, 2020
D.C. Schindler on Liberalism
New Polity What is needed is not a philosophical analysis but a historical analysis.D.C. Schindler does the Lord's work, locating the theological meaning of liberalism in the reduction of God to absolute potency.
— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) August 21, 2020
This too-long-for-online essay is essential reading for anyone who would build a postliberal Christian society.https://t.co/D7nPJIOXF9
Fake Synodality at Work
Bishop Vorderholzer: Text of German Synod on Women in the Church "theologically lowbrow". Yes, no quality there any more. https://t.co/0Jciyh12le #GermanTheology #Niveaulos @cnalive #Theology
— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) September 4, 2020
Steadfast in Faith by David G. Bonagura, Jr.
author's website@DavidGBonaguraJ’s incredible work provides dynamic insight into where we are and how we can reorient our lives to Christ. #Catholic #Church @ClunyMedia https://t.co/brSPAfQtnM
— Thomas Griffin (@ThomasCGriffin) August 31, 2020
Interview with Bissera Pentcheva
Wonderful new @FordhamOrthodox interview with Bissera Pentcheva discussing the #LostVoicesofHagiasophia project! https://t.co/Jj5rUao3IN
— Cappella Romana (@cappellaromana) September 3, 2020
Social Justice Quarterly
Here it is! The first issue of Social Justice Quarterly, the Leonine Institute's magazine!
— Leonine Institute (@leoinstituteCST) September 4, 2020
It's been months in the making and we are so glad to present it to you! Thank you to all our contributors!
Please read and share!!https://t.co/B6B4OHVqs5 pic.twitter.com/Iys13fNNjM
What Sort of Handle on the Patriarchate?
#PopeFrancis has revealed that that, during the #AmazonSynod, the debate over married priests became too polarised - it is for this reason that he didn’t go forward with the proposal
— Christopher Lamb (@ctrlamb) September 4, 2020
/1https://t.co/fqMvoIRmMm
Matt Dinan Reviews Manent's Natural Law and Human Rights
Today my review of Pierre Manent's Natural Law and Human Rights is the "In this Issue" in @hedgehogreview's weekly newsletter--check it out here:https://t.co/1xN86o7GqK pic.twitter.com/I8tQ9TOHNP
— Matt Dinan (@second_sailing) September 4, 2020
Thursday, September 03, 2020
Interview with Demetrios Tselengides
On the Lack of Distinction Between the Theanthropic Body and the Body of Humanity: the Root of our Problems
— Orthodox Ethos (@frpeterheers) September 3, 2020
~ Interview with Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Demetrios Tselengides
Link to video: https://t.co/REJv4IpftN
Link to audio: https://t.co/nhbKPU6et1
“Here is my rhetorical question: With what moral support can the faithful man go to church, when he knows that by going himself he is preventing someone else who wants to go, because they have reached the maximum amount [of attendees]?...(1)
— Orthodox Ethos (@frpeterheers) September 3, 2020
Link to video: https://t.co/REJv4IpftN
Churches, Chapels, Monasteries of Crete, Greece
PHOTO GALLERY: Beautiful Churches, Chapels & Monasteries of Crete, Greecehttps://t.co/TOBFMsHdiP
— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) September 3, 2020
White-washed chapels on cliffs rising over the azure sea, cloud-capped bell towers or solemn monasteries with old frescoes—Cretan churches are a must-see on your trip to Crete... pic.twitter.com/a4dt8V1mlc
Sunday Worship in 4th Century Jerusalem
The 12th century manuscript that serves as the basis for this article was discovered in 1884 by the Italian archaeologist Rammurini in Arezzo (Italy). Later it became known as The Pilgrimage to Holy Places..
— St Elisabeth Convent. Orthodox Life And Chants (@StElisabethConv) September 3, 2020
Read full: https://t.co/KYAnDNWqSa
Commission an Icon
Hand-painted icons by Julia Hayes https://t.co/eGYrwoNlqa via @YouTube
— Julia Bridget Hayes (@ikonographics) September 3, 2020
St. Maximos on the Love of God
Saint Maximus the Confessor: He who loves God first loved his neighbor#orthodox_timeshttps://t.co/ljBhkcHTiT
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) September 3, 2020
Father Paul Drozdowski
Today's new episode is with Father Paul Drozdowski, a world renowned iconographer. We get into his background and the purpose of icons in worship. Listen here: https://t.co/3tkkVfAfdG pic.twitter.com/cY4o2OsCMO
— context_matters (@contextmatters7) September 3, 2020
Fake Synodality
Much of this push to revise the Church’s sexual morality through the Synodal Path is believed to have derived from the thinking of German theologian Father Eberhard Schockenhoff who died suddenly in July aged 67 after falling in his home
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 3, 2020
https://t.co/1FucUh9z7N @NCRegister
Max Weber
In the centenary of Max Weber’s death, we focus on 2 of Weber’s themes that have had a considerable influence on the study of the sociology of religion: the disenchantment of the world; and, Protestant ethics as the driving force behind capitalism https://t.co/Q7WKRf6qJa
— La Civiltà Cattolica (@civcatt) September 3, 2020
Eastern Christian Books: Texts and Acts of Ephesus
Wednesday, September 02, 2020
The Juridical Foundations of a Personal Ordinariate
It was a great joy to speak to the @ecclawsoc this afternoon about the juridical foundations of a personal #ordinariate, with thanks to @coefen for the invitation! #CanonLaw #CanonLawMatters https://t.co/XRjaB7VLld
— Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) September 2, 2020
For Those Interested in Palamas
Apparently a research project devoted to studying the two variants of Gregory Palamas' (in)famous third letter to Gregory Akindynos on the essence/energies distinction has just published (all?/some of?) its results on a new site, yesterday: https://t.co/w2Y5YVMUYN
— Jonathan Greig (@jabgreig) September 2, 2020
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A Debate on God's Existence
Just watched a great debate on God's existence between Fr. Gregory Pine (@ThomisticInst) and Ben Watkins of (@RealAtheology). It's as cordial and thoughtful as my debate with @cosmicskeptic (if not even more so!). Keep up these great debates @mattfradd! https://t.co/5YnRN80lRi
— Trent Horn (@Trent_Horn) September 2, 2020
John O'Callaghan on Personhood
A great lecture from Notre Dame Prof. John O'Callaghan: "Are There Failed Persons? Are You One of Them?"
— Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) September 1, 2020
Particularly good on faulty modern conceptions of personhood and how they infect modern bioethics.https://t.co/AYMUaxHrpq @ThomisticInst
Tuesday, September 01, 2020
A Cool Reception
Cardinal Hon’s letter to #HongKong clergy met with opposition in some quarters of the local Church. One priest told CNA it “went down like a bucket of cold sick” with some local Catholics. https://t.co/1EzdooCnRd via @cnalive
— Ed. Condon (@canonlawyered) September 1, 2020
A Benedictine Education
Also among Cluny’s August titles: an edifying new presentation of Newman's essays on Benedictine education, edited by @CFrancisFisher of @Portsmouth_Inst and introduced by @margaritamooney of @scalaorg. View at https://t.co/3tXqX84ENC pic.twitter.com/HJnDn1wP5E
— Cluny Media (@ClunyMedia) August 25, 2020
@ClunyMedia is publishing A Benedictine Education, an edifying new presentation of Newman's essays on Benedictine ed., a cause dear to @scalaorg. It is edited by @CFrancisFisher & introduced by @scalaorg's @margaritamooney. Available @ClunyMedia
— Scala Foundation (@scalaorg) September 1, 2020
& @amazon! pic.twitter.com/RBpJMZGf3f
Monday, August 31, 2020
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Not of Immediate Practical Import
Fourth catechesis of Pope Francis on the Covid-19 pandemic "To heal the world" in the light of the Gospel, the theological virtues and the principles of the Church's social doctrine
And the lacunae is not merely that of Pope Francis or his ghostwriter -- Roman Catholic Social Teaching has yet to grapple with the problem of the state and its legitimacy. There are a few steps that need to be reasoned through before such principles can be applied to ordering polities.
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Not Vatican II's Fault
Sunt lacrimae rerum https://t.co/gzuFFZQJyr
— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) August 29, 2020
Elsewhere:
Possibly the most painfully ironic photo ever taken: the dumpster of a liberal Catholic monastery, full of sixty copies of Our Latin Heritage. pic.twitter.com/YQASbmgySc
— Urban Hannon (@hannonregular) August 28, 2020
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist 2020
The beheading of the Forerunner became an act of divine dispensation, for he preached to those in hell the coming of the Savior. Let Herodias lament, for she entreated lawless murder, loving not the law of God nor eternal life, but that which is false and temporal (Kont., Tone 5) pic.twitter.com/l9DI75zPYv
— St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary (@stvlads) August 29, 2020
St. John the Baptist in Deesis of Hagia Sophia, Bearing Witness in Chora, Baptism of Christ in Neonian Baptistery (Ravenna), Fresco at Museum of Byzantine Culture (Thessaloniki)
— The Byzantine Legacy (@ByzantineLegacy) August 29, 2020
Today is commemoration of the beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John pic.twitter.com/4whJYFq1K1
Integralism as Default
This month @ConciliarPost I look at the utility of integralism as descriptive (if not normative): https://t.co/cgHjQZzNx2
— Timon Cline (@tlloydcline) August 28, 2020
My response: the problem is not that the state is just of the wrong confession at the moment; the problem is the state itself. Filling the state with believing Catholics or Christians will not eliminate this fundamental problem of scale.
Jeff Mirus on Latin Integralism
The return of “Integralism”? https://t.co/Zrf4XaZkQJ @FormTheCulture— The Catholic Thing (@catholicthing) August 27, 2020
Recognizing that the Church is the arbiter not only of Divine Revelation but of what God reveals through creation in what we call the Natural Law, I am more inclined to want to get the natural law right, to study Catholic social teaching with great care, and to develop a political party that combines the best and most comprehensive recognition of the corresponding principles that ought to animate both the social order and government itself.
Latins claim this as a part of the authority of the Church (see CCC 2036 and Dignitatis Humane 14), but where is the warrant within Apostolic Tradition? Setting aside those secondary precepts which are not directly directly through reasoning but are determined by reason or are applications of reason in finding a convention to order some state of affairs (e.g. driving on which side of the road), there are several points to be made.
1. There are precepts of Natural Law that have nonetheless been revealed directly by God as well. These have been passed down as a part of Sacred Tradition. So bishops can be said to be arbiters of the Natural Law, in so far as they have received it as a part of God's revelation to Israel and in Christ. But does that revelation include all possible secondary precepts?
2. Knowing apart from Divine Revelation the "fullness" of the Natural Law requires not intellectual virtue but moral virtue. Do bishops have a special charism from the Holy Spirit that replaces the need for this and the habit of synderesis and the logical reasoning required as well? This is a more dubious claim.
That the Church possesses the authority to teach the precepts of the Natural Law is probably a long-standing Latin theological opinion. (Going back to Trent if not some time before, during the medieval period?) I'd like to read a treatise or manual that show some nuance in presenting this. Can the patriarchate of Rome cite one of its "ecumenical councils" as an authority espousing this opinon? I am doubtful, since the CCC makes no such reference.
See the old CE entry on the Natural Law.
Voluntarism? Nominalism?
Defenses and critiques of modern politics will ultimately come back to the choice between a metaphysics of inherent order or divine fiat, so which should we choose? https://t.co/lgv4xL7DN0
— Richard Reinsch (@Reinsch84) August 28, 2020
Theological Roots of the Secular World Order by Nathaniel Peters
Did people with power and influence really believe in legal voluntarism? Or were they just acting in accordance with their appetites? Is this sort of genealogy, putting the blame on late medieval theology/philosophy for "modernity" really still useful, in comparison with a proper study of history?
Friday, August 28, 2020
The Future of ROCOR
The Future of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) https://t.co/AwoukvcDcC
— Russian Faith (@Russian_Faith) August 26, 2020
Orthodox Christianity
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Sure
"Like Narcissus, such a person can pursue the discipline of theology only to discover that they have not found God, but an image of themselves reflected in a cultural mirror."
— stephen brannon (@stephenbrannon_) August 27, 2020
a #mustread from @ccpecknold https://t.co/bTRRBhNRhH
St. Phanourios, Pray for Us!
We also celebrate the Holy Martyr Phanourios (Φανούριος Μεγαλομάρτυς)
— Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada (@GO_Metropolis) August 27, 2020
The faithful pray to Saint Phanourios especially to help them recover things that have been lost. https://t.co/lfrZ8Wu3QK
Saint Phanourius is considered as the pre-eminent saint who can help to find (“reveal”) any lost belongings#orthodox_times
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) August 27, 2020
https://t.co/gY9i7rZif8
Fanouropita is a Greek fasting-appropriate cake brought as an offering to Saint Phanourius for helping people find lost things and not only#orthodox_times https://t.co/FiI3LmO0BM
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) August 27, 2020
Orthodox Soteriology
"As separation from God, death—not physical, not physiological death, but death as sin and separation—has been abolished by Christ’s death." - Alexander Schmemann pic.twitter.com/1pnO570kKF
— SVS Press (@SVSPress) August 27, 2020
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Who Needed Ressourcement to a Greater Degree than the Other Jurisdictions?
CWR : The Next Pope is an evangelical call to ressourcement by Eduardo Echeverria
George Weigel’s new book provides a balanced perspective on what the next pope should embrace in order to promote the radically Christocentric and evangelical imperative of the Church.
Yves Congar and the Future of the Church in its Past
— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) August 26, 2020
by Charles Taylorhttps://t.co/AT5pehdjBY
Church Life Journal
I'm not going to critique Taylor here, though what he says is worthy of critique, as his understanding of the problem of political life is flawed, and affects his understanding of the Church's mission as well.
I won't disagree that the patriarchate of Rome needed Ressourcement, not only to become familiar with the Fathers as models, but also as voices of the Tradition, and to be able to distinguish between what is directly pertaining to the Kerygma, theological propositions that have been found to have value in explaining the Kerygma and accepted by the Church Universal, theological opinion that is not yet accepted by all of the Church Universal, and so on. Was a Latin synod posturing as an ecumenical council the best or most effective means of bringing Ressourcement to Latin bishops? Or could this aspect of ecclesial reform have been done in a better and more cost-effective way? If the synod had just been an opportunity for bishops to gather, pray, study and have discussions, without feeling it necessary to issue documents to justify the calling of the synod, would the results have been better?
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Agia Sophia Cathedral in Warsaw
Agia Sophia Cathedral in Warsaw to be consecrated on eve of Nativity of Theotokoshttps://t.co/ZkHFmNbXtD
— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) August 25, 2020
The foundation stone of the cathedral, the first new church in Warsaw in 100 years, was laid by Met. Sawa and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in December 2015, an... pic.twitter.com/hVdfOW1Ev9
Monday, August 24, 2020
A Useful Reference
Cappelli's dictionary of medieval Latin abbreviations is now a search engine on @Twittfontes: https://t.co/9pbm1y3hCr
— Anna Dorofeeva (@LitteraCarolina) August 24, 2020
Cappelli Online
Maybe Not Everything Jacob Did Was Praiseworthy
And our Lord is confirming this?
There is something odd (almost, dare I say, ironic) about our Lord calling Nathanael "a true Israelite, without guile" (John 1:47), since of course the original Israel (Jacob), was a man of preeminent guile, who tricked his brother Esau and his father Isaac to get his blessing.
— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) August 24, 2020
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Saturday, August 22, 2020
What About the Old Believers?
Ukrainian Catholic Church preserved Byzantine rite liturgical customs lost by Russian Orthodoxhttps://t.co/hbvXoHPtKB@sosonkyrie @Frustratedatbe1 @snitsova @te_rowley @Irkutyanin1 @MaryShulika @lara_lazar @sumlenny @dalybeauty @JoEdward123 @DunsScottus @ValarVarda @niktwick
— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 22, 2020
Conquerors Do What Conquerors Do
A month after Hagia Sophia's conversion into a mosque, Turkey’s president Recep Erdoğan has now ordered the 700 year old Byzantine Greek Chora Church in Istanbul to be turned into a fully functioning mosque. The #GreekGenocide continues. https://t.co/xfujknTRG1 via @cnalive
— Greek Genocide RCen (@Greek_Genocide) August 22, 2020
"Pumped Up Kicks" in Old English
Pumped up kicks 1066 A.D Cover in Old English (Anglo Saxon) Bardcorehttps://t.co/H0T05nScWG
— Battle Beagle (@HarmlessYardDog) August 21, 2020
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Friday, August 21, 2020
Latin Theology of the Presbyterate
Who Is the Priest We Want?
— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) August 21, 2020
by @JohnCavadini of @McGrathND https://t.co/KzNAOSStNV
The Lack of Learning among Latins...
He is so right. The problem is that Catholics have not learned history but apologetic history - and so they don't know anything about the diversity of history. And of course, church history has almost been eliminated in seminary education.https://t.co/Nj3l1iP7MH
— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) August 21, 2020
A Spiritual Transformation of an Empire
Full clip: https://t.co/bfdSWsjF7L
— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) August 21, 2020
Lord Have Mercy
Turkish gov’t reverts 6th century Byzantine monastery Chora in Istanbul in to a mosque with a decree this morning.
— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) August 21, 2020
Chora was built by the Justinian 1, the emperor behind the Hagia Sophia’s construction. It is known for its invaluable and stunning mosaics pic.twitter.com/NMyEPR5rLC
Thursday, August 20, 2020
A Discussion on the Eucharist
The Conversation begins...
— Fr. Barnabas Powell (@FrBarnabas) August 19, 2020
History, Mystery, & the Eucharist with Francis Chan & Metropolitan Yohan... https://t.co/E9BAI2zQBB via @YouTube
"Victim"
Therefore Christ Himself, as man, was not only priest, but also a perfect victim, being at the same time victim for sin, victim for a peace-offering, and a holocaust."— Thomistic Institute (@ThomisticInst) August 20, 2020
Summa Theologiae IIIa Q. 22, a. 2https://t.co/qsGhNAFVpo
Etymoline:
WordSense.EUvictim (n.)
late 15c., "living creature killed and offered as a sacrifice to a deity or supernatural power, or in the performance of a religious rite;" from Latin victima "sacrificial animal; person or animal killed as a sacrifice," a word of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to vicis "turn, occasion" (as in vicarious), if the notion is an "exchange" with the gods. Perhaps distantly connected to Old English wig "idol," Gothic weihs "holy," German weihen "consecrate" (compare Weihnachten "Christmas") on notion of "a consecrated animal."
Sense of "person who is hurt, tortured, or killed by another" is recorded from 1650s; meaning "person oppressed by some power or situation, person ruined or greatly injured or made to suffer in the pursuit of an object, or for the gratification of a passion or infatuation, or from disease or disaster" is from 1718. Weaker sense of "person taken advantage of, one who is cheated or duped" is recorded from 1781.
Wiktionary
U. Pitt Keywords Project:
Keyword: Victim
Victim is an important word because it links often traumatic personal or group experiences in contemporary societies to frameworks that understand such experiences and respond to them through public policy, political advocacy, and in wider public debate. The etymology of victim is straightforward: the word comes from Latin victima. Its first sense is that of a sacrificial offering, and this strong sense is made stronger by the identification of the sacrificial offering and thus the victim as Christ. By C17, however, it has developed the more general meaning “a person who is put to death or subjected to torture by another; one who suffers severely in body or property through cruel or oppressive treatment.” These strong meanings developed into a general sense of a passive recipient of misfortune. While in earlier uses such misfortune has been regarded as individual or random, there has been a concerted attempt in recent years to use the word as a route to political empowerment as the status of victim becomes structural. Governments have also chosen to endow victims with an active role in addressing their misfortune; this is most evident in some criminal justice systems, where the issue then arises of whether such victims have been given a power to override not only the rights of offenders but also the ability of the state itself to administer justice.
A New Book on Karl Barth
A new book about the adulterous love-triangle of the modern "Church Father of Protestantism," Karl Barth (replacing Schleiermacher). Still, how much truth can be found in a man's writing if he did not attempt to live truth? https://t.co/PbZbGAsrV0
— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) August 20, 2020
Klöpfer & Meyer Verlag: Zu dritt. Karl Barth, Nelly Barth, Charlotte von Kirschbaum
The Nominalist Bogeyman?
“The faith is handed down to us by the Church. We don’t get to invent it,” says the author of Theological Negotiations: Proposals in Soteriology and Anthropology. “But we do share in the task and responsibility of trying to understand it.”
Dr. Farrow: It takes me next to two very basic areas of dispute: the relation between justification and sanctification, in which Luther becomes my chief interlocutor, and the relation between “satisfaction” and punishment, a subsidiary but crucial topic that if anything is even more misunderstood today. Both of these have very significant implications for pastoral theology, as for systematic theology.
Those two chapters are followed by a pair on doxology. The first of these treats what I call “doxological Pelagianism”; that is, the tendency to rely on nature to perfect itself even in the act of worship, where the grace of God in Jesus Christ should be most evident. It will be among the most controversial chapters in the book, since it takes its cue from Protestant thinkers while contending that the problem is more exaggerated in Protestantism than in Catholicism, where it is also present.
The second is a detailed treatment of the problem of transubstantiation. Here I return to Aquinas, and to the task of rethinking some of his ideas by way of a more adequate eschatology. I expect this chapter to be controversial as well, even inside Catholicism. But both Catholics and Protestants, if they read it patiently, will perhaps find that the whole stubborn business—the very serious business—of transubstantiation appears in a fresh light.
I'd need more historical evidence before accepting his claims about nominalism:
CWR: In the Introduction, you write, “Nominalism is Western civilization’s wounded side, from which is flowing, not water and blood, but blood and fire.” Can you provide some background and context to that strong statement?
Dr. Farrow: That is said with respect to modernity’s doomed attempt to re-found Western civilization on the basis that “God” is merely a concept in the world, a way of speaking about emergent order in the world, rather than the living God, the God of the Bible who through the incarnation suffers and dies with man, who as man actually conquers death for the sake of life eternal. It was through nominalism that we learned to regard the latter as myth, as an empty vessel that could be filled with fresh content as required. But the fresh content we have poured into it has not brought progress towards perpetual peace, as the fathers of modernity hoped. It has brought moral confusion, incited hubris of every kind, and led to the sickness unto death; that is, despair. Western civilization is crumbling before our eyes, and being torn down by our own hands. We’ve decided that there’s little or nothing there worth salvaging, not even the statuary, as it turns out.
Weigel on Eucharistic Offering (or Sacrifice)
If Christ is not the principal actor in the celebration of the Eucharist, then the Mass is a social ritual, the community’s celebration of itself.
This caught my attention at first glance:
How many Catholics understand that we are called to the weekly celebration of the Eucharist so that, in union with Christ the Head of the Body, we might offer ourselves to the Father along with the eucharistic Christ who is offered?
But his reporting of the recent Vatican response on the proper form for Baptism in the Roman rite is of interest too:
The question the Congregation had to answer was whether Baptism is validly conferred by saying “In the name of the father and mother, the godfather and godmother, the family, the friends, and in the name of the community, we baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” The answer was “No.” Why? Because the ancient formula, “I baptize you….” expresses the bedrock truth the Second Vatican Council inscribed in its Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy: “When anyone baptizes, it is Christ himself who baptizes.” To speak of “we” baptizing is to suggest that the Church invents the sacraments rather than her being created by the sacraments. And that, to cite an image from Father Robert Imbelli, is to decapitate the Body of Christ.
Christ is the principal actor in the sacramental drama of Baptism. Christ acts through the baptizer, to be sure. But it really is Christ who acts. Otherwise, Baptism would be merely a welcoming rite rather than the radical reconfiguration of a person to Christ as a member of his Mystical Body, the Church.
Rome's Claim Put Into Canon Law
Can. 331 The bishop of the Roman Church, in whom continues the office given by the Lord uniquely to Peter, the first of the Apostles, and to be transmitted to his successors, is the head of the college of bishops, the Vicar of Christ, and the pastor of the universal Church on earth. By virtue of his office he possesses supreme, full, immediate, and universal ordinary power in the Church, which he is always able to exercise freely.
(cf Canon 218 in the 1917 Code.)
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
The Byzantine View of the Incarnation
"We need to stop seeing the Incarnation as a reaction of God to the Fall, but see the Incarnation as the very purpose of Creation."
— Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan) August 19, 2020
From the Clips channel. https://t.co/62n918Tdib
Orthodox Christian Ethics, Morals, and Modernity
Live from Ancient Faith https://t.co/q6NF6w4sdA
— Ancient Faith (@ancientfaith) August 19, 2020
AFR: Fr. Demetrios Harper from Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, NY joins Fr. Tom Soroka to talk about a challenging but important topic.
A Protestant Defense of the Common Good
A Protestant Defense of the Common Good @jordanballor https://t.co/1y8SyCCCkp via @PublicDiscourse
— Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) August 17, 2020
The Public Discourse
Archbishop Elpidophoros to Speak on Orthodox-Catholic Relations in the US
We are delighted to announce that His Eminence Archbishop @Elpidophoros will deliver this year's Economos Orthodoxy in America Lecture on Monday, September 21st. The title of his lecture is "The Future of Orthodox-Catholic Relations in the U.S.A."
— Fordham OCSC (@FordhamOrthodox) August 18, 2020
Kenneth Pennington's Course on the History of Canon Law
Don't forget Ken Pennington's entire course on the history of canon law (lectures, materials, etc.) is available free online:https://t.co/LfmJ8BNkgC
— Percy Gryce (@percy_gryce) August 18, 2020
Distributism Discussion at New Polity
"For a long time I lived as a capitalist. I thought it was a great idea: entrepreneurship, productivity, having a free market...But then I learned about history's capitalism."
— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) August 18, 2020
New pod on distributism // Alex Plato https://t.co/xWAC5m8epK
The "Basil Option"
On Social Justice: The “Basil Option” https://t.co/vlvAWDX4QW
— Russian Faith (@Russian_Faith) August 16, 2020
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Libertarianism and Natural Law on Private Property
— Catholic Culture Podcasts (@CatholicPods) August 18, 2020
Monday, August 17, 2020
Panagia Mouchliotissa
The only Byzantine church that is in operation in Constantinople and, fortunately, was never converted into a mosque, is Panagia Mouchliotissa#orthodox_timeshttps://t.co/yYx1hByHzv
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) August 17, 2020
Vatican II on Eastern Catholics
Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) says that Eastern Catholics should differ from the Orthodox as little as possible.https://t.co/XIIVC3GNoxhttps://t.co/M2roa1NUNf@Todd3337 @BishopBarron @MattGaspers @HicksonMaike @leonardorander @tokiIIthedragon @gvstavvss @notanotherrant
— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 17, 2020
Latins will quibble as to what the "as little as possible" part entails.
Brian Butcher on Christian Worship
What is Christian Worship / Liturgy? Dr. Brian Butcherhttps://t.co/NpZm6g9GxD@compellingtruth @dcrump12321 @theryanstratton @aimlikeanarrow
— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 16, 2020
Uniformity at the expense of diversity. Diversity a division at the expense of unity.https://t.co/BmEzgcG5Ww
— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 15, 2020
Fall 2020https://t.co/i6UMdQwtNL@ikeepnoticing @themarquesito @bradsjoquist @TracyKemme @PrayForUsMary @journalisthasan @Qashakaram @PstSeunSalami @TheologyNetwork
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Holy New Martyr Demetrius
The Orthodox Church commemorates today Holy New Martyr Demetrius#orthodox_times https://t.co/jwhHVx5rm6
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) August 17, 2020
Alan Fimister Responds to John O'Malley Regarding Vatican II
An objective assessment of the importance of Vatican 2 - the author argues that it is the 17th most important of the ecumenical councils. https://t.co/JDhVD2xvvf
— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) August 16, 2020
The Josias: ‘When Bishops Meet’ by Alan Fimister
The Intramural Debate Continues
I asked Archbishop Viganò for a comment on #BishopBarron's recent anti-Traditionalist defense of Vatican II. His response is devastating, especially for those who agree with Bp. Barron. https://t.co/hIU4IMesif
— Michael J. Matt (@Michael_J_Matt) August 16, 2020
Remnant
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Matthew Levering on the Assumption
Must Catholics Insist Upon Mary's Assumption?
— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) August 14, 2020
by Matthew Leveringhttps://t.co/brRRwWsQnG
CLJ
Friday, August 14, 2020
Interview with Spyridon Antonopoulos
Don't miss this conversation with Spyridon Antonopoulos with The Autumn Salon. Some wonderful excerpts from his recordings with Psaltikon and more! https://t.co/mmRsYrvadJ
— Cappella Romana (@cappellaromana) August 13, 2020
An interview illustrated with a broad range of musical examples from @SpiroAnton of @CityUniMusic https://t.co/jX0aLWDhbH
— Alexander Lingas (@ALLingas) August 13, 2020
Thursday, August 13, 2020
David Bonagura Reviews Pearl of Great Price
"Browne’s book is an innovative telling of a forgotten period of the Catholic Church’s past, and a creative complement to studies on the French Revolution’s enduring impact on Western civilization." - @DavidGBonaguraJ for @ubookman https://t.co/pXl1v8UILO pic.twitter.com/ldMlOzXEcA
— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) August 13, 2020
Arouca Press
St. Herman of Alaska Chapel Restored on Valaam
St. Herman of Alaska Chapel restored on Valaamhttps://t.co/MAFCekKzZF
— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) August 13, 2020
The chapel was erected on St. Herman’s Field, not far from the place where the Venerable Herman labored in asceticism. pic.twitter.com/i9rTrYweGB
Memory Eternal
The Funeral Service of Father Boris Bobrinskoy was performed at the Orthodox Monastery of Our Lady of All Protection in Bussy-en-Othe, France#orthodox_times https://t.co/RkRSUizIz6
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) August 13, 2020
An Introduction to the Aritculus
Most of the things that Thomas deals with whether by way of the question or other methods are quite complicated. But Thomas sees no point in making complicated matters more complicated.
Pietro De Marco Proposes an Irenic Discussion of Vatican II
But the dialogue is really just for Latins and the patriarchate of Rome -- if Eastern Catholics are meant to be included at all, they are presumed to share the same beliefs as Latin ecclesiology. (Of course, Latins believe that the key points of Latin ecclesiology have already been established as dogma, because of those synods that they claim are ecumenical.) Latins need to realize that this debate is an intramural one and does not pertain to the Church Universal.
The note from Professor De Marco (in Italian).
Salvation and Redemption
Salvation & Redemption -- The Early Christian Understanding
— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) August 12, 2020
We wish you all peace in this fallen world.https://t.co/9pll49Uqzp pic.twitter.com/fxOTaVhTtK
Gladden Pappin on Bridge Builder Podcast
Delighted to join @MNCatholicConf’s Bridge Builder show to talk about Catholic political thought, different concepts of Church & State, the politics of corporatism, coronavirus & more
— Gladden Pappin (@gjpappin) August 10, 2020
Check out the podcast here! 👇 https://t.co/x3vskhZOKv https://t.co/tu7Ylczs0l
BridgeBuilder Podcast: Gladden Pappin on Catholic Political Thought, Boundaries Between Church & State and Corporatism