Theology Is A Body Of Knowledge, Not A Cackle Of Opinions

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In the mid-1980s, I saw the need to preserve and revive the theological arts.  Living in Seattle at the time, I put a name to it: Seattle Society of Orthodox Theologians.  My wife…

Freedom -> Theology -> Religion -> Culture -> Politics

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT To start his famed biography of Christopher Columbus, Admiral Of The Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison establishes the context of Columbus’ career: Europe dispirited, dissolute, bored and generally lacking in get up and go.…

The Jugular: On Freedom

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT You know, Octavian, it’s quite possible that when you die . . . you will die without ever having been alive. Mark Antony to Octavian, Cleopatra, 1963 FFrreeeeddoomm ! ! ! Breathes there…

What Doing? Where Going?

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT We have pointed out that a nation arises around its successful Army (modernly, Armed Forces).  We have not explored the question: Around what does a nation’s successful Army arise? The answer is, around…

Wealth And Energy Beget Repose

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT We have noted that the wealth of a nation is her land (geography), families (morality) and constitution (system of law).  A nation’s wealth is the root, branch and fruit of her sovereignty.  Yet,…

A Coup d’œil Of Russia And …

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Richard Fernandez (Wretchard) has been a solid strategic read for years.  Since the advent of the Trump Administration, much less so.  In fact, not at all. He treats now, as always, of important…

A Thanksgiving Homily

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 Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of harvest-home; All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin; God, our Maker doth provide For our wants to be supplied;…

Theological Ground Of National Sovereignty

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 PDF version of this post is available here. National sovereignty is a sweet fruit tree who grows in the rich, blood-soaked soil of freedom by imbibing the power of rivers…

Russian History In Russian Foreign Policy

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 There follows an edited colloquy in which an interlocutor and I engaged on the subject of a 2016 article by Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The competition…

Partnership With Russia And India: Three Brothers Doctrine

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 furious tenacity of irrational ethicists continues: Mona Charen is carrying the M249 SAW, so to speak, for the R wing of the D-R UniParty.  Scott Johnson addresses her 16-round burst.…

Global Governance Under Reconsideration

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 “Ghia Nodia is director of the International School of Caucasus Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia, and chairman of the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy, and Development, an independent…

The Theological Component In Announcing Strategic War To Annihilate The Salafi Jihad

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT   So far, some Jihadis are answered but not Jihad itself.   … told many times one is coming, still we have no announcement of strategic war to annihilate ISIL and the Salafi Jihad altogether.  Jihadis…

So Let The Battle Rage

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Actually, this is exactly the issue at trial today: is reality independent of my cognizing it?  I am glad the issue is at trial.  Only good can come of this struggle between Yes…

Global Governance: We Already Have It

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 And we have Global Community, as well.  It is called The Global Spiritual Community and it is the only and only possible global governance … and by God, not Caesar, in time, not…

The Personal Revolution

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The phenomenon of simultaneity has long commanded my attention and admiration.  As I recall, I remarked it first in writing in 1973. It is this:  that always some few people are pushing into…

Typical Globalist Self-Delusion, Circa January 2001

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 They left off divine providence (paradox, the unexpected, Black Swan), religion and national sovereignty as drivers of the future: DNI/NIC Original Here KGSNightWatch Analysis Uri Friedman, What U.S. Intelligence Predicted the World Would…