Tom Driver On Paul Tillich

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT NOTICE: The following article is Copyrighted by Theology Today. The Tillichian Spell: Memories of a Student Mesmerized in the 1950s Theology Today, Oct 1996 by Tom F. Driver Composing these reminiscences…

Apologia Ecclesiae: The Church Answers “A Common Word Between Us and You”

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT To the Ulema Pretenders And The Khalifah Pretender, Abdullah The Hashemite, Who Convenes Them Grace to you and Peace from God the Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ,…

Corpus Christianum And Moslem Ummah

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Correlations exist between what are called Corpus Christianum and Moslem Ummah. What are Corpus Christianum and Moslem Ummah and what is their significance linguistically, theologically, ideologically and as phenomena of history? Corpus Christianum…

The Season Of Advent: Submission To The Negativities Of Existence

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The central paradox (1) of the Christian Proclamation is the assertion that the very personality destined to save men, man, history and the universe from estrangement and ambiguity terminally submits to…

New Being, New Strength, New Alignment

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A Homily For Advent 2007   New Being – Originating Creativity – Religion The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of…

All Saints Day, 01 November 2007

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This day begins the Christian Liturgical Year, the Day of All Halloweds or All Saints.  Halloweds is from Old English hAlig meaning Holy and Saints is from Latin sanctus meaning Holy.…

God And Being

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Life is life-threatening. The Vision of God is not a Vision of God.  It is the Vision of God. The Vision of God is the Vision God has through Himself. The Vision of God is seeing through Your Eyes as…

The Ontological Question / The Fundamental Paradox Of Reason And Reality

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The question of the unconditional by man presupposes the presence of the unconditional as man. How does the unconditional “stand out from” (Latin exsistere, English exist and existence) itself as the…

Comment On President Bush’s Speech To The VFW, 22 August 2007

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT “The greatest weapon in the arsenal of democracy is the desire for liberty written into the human heart by our Creator. So long as we remain true to our ideals, we…

Coming Soon From CAIR And Qom

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Before long, two armies of trial lawyers, not Muslims but megalomaniacs, representing CAIR, Qom and other subversive groups at work in the United States of America, fed by seemingly inexhaustible Saudi and Iranian petrodollars, and with eager participation from the irresponsible (inaccurately…

How Can They?

Yesterday I attended the Memorial Service for four Heroes of 1-23 INF, 3rd SBCT at Fort Lewis, Washington. There are no words but silent ones, the grief just has to be borne. How can people think they are tasked to order the world to convert to what they call “Islam” or submit to enslavement or…

Yes Or No

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, For each statement, circle your answer, Yes or No. Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Islam and Christianity are equal in every way: validity, legitimacy, value, importance, power, durability, weight, glory, truth, righteousness, peace, love, revelation, proximity to God, etc. All religions are a gift…

Computational And Conceptual Teaching Of Mathematics

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Thoughts responding to this article in the Seattle Times, which is reproduced following these thoughts: The math approach changes with generations of teachers and administrators and their teachers in the schools of education. Basically,…

Good News! – 2

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Here are two salutary descriptions of reality in the Global War Against Caliphism: By David Kilcullen in Small War Journals: Understanding Current Operations in Iraq. And by Hassan Butt in the Daily Mail: I Was…

Clerical Wars, Not Religious, Sectarian, Or Civil Wars

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT GEN (R) Barry McCaffrey is quoted recently to the effect that the conflict in Iraq is a civil war. To be disposed to make such a claim, General McCaffrey would be regarding the…

Pete Seeger And Joannie Baez

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, America’s Most Successful Communist Howard Husock Americans Are Not A “Folk” And Bob Dylan Is Not Our Poet Pete Seeger as the politicizer of music (not just pop/folk but also classical since music of all kinds is tied together) in the direction…