Coping With Ecumenism

Logic reflects Logos but does not touch Logos and cannot reach Logos.  Logos is the origin of logic but logic is not Logos.  Logic is a unique tool, not a universal one, much less the universal base (esse ipsum).  Logic correlates with Logos but is not identical with Logos.  Between logic and Logos there is an…

Creation

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The Genesis creation stories – there are two of them, back-to-back, declaring divine act in reverse sequence – accurately and literally depict the origin of all worlds and all life through all time,…

Pensieri – I

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Pensieri – I is here. Pensieri – II is here. Pensieri – III is here. Pensieri – IV is here. Restoration-Resurgence The restoration of Islam and the defeat of Caliphists is in the resurgence of Logos Theology. Trusters and Boomers: Eliminationists and Slavers…

An Orbit Of Influences

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT When I was at seminary (Union Theological, NYC, 1965-1969) I took a course by a strange but brilliant P named Peter Putnam. It was on systems theory and theology. I ended up writing…

The Problem Of Evil: Theological Distinction Between Sin and Sins

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Yesterday Dr. Sanity discussed the problem of evil in an unusual way — not for her but for professional and lay persons generally.  She acknowledges that evil is a concomitant of existence. I offered a series of comments, first referring to a writer…

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…

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…

Pope Benedict And Archbishop Sentamu On Treating Of Islam And Moslems

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 From Pope Benedict: Address at the University of Regensburg, and here. Key language from the Pope: The West has long been endangered by this aversion to the [existential] questions which underlie its…

Three Thoughts

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. 1- Today, the nation-states are the forms of the religions whose cultures produced them. Today, the secular authorities are warring religions. Who can intervene this time, as the secular authorities did in the 17th Century to bring peace…

Amplification Of The Briefing, To Religion Parks From Religion 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 SECTION I Overview I reject parsing religions into denominations or sects and, ultimately, I reject parsing religion itself into “religions.” Religion is religion, no matter now denominated.  There is one God. …

Idolatry Of The Koran

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 a-and anti-religious press around the world is making a fuss over treatment of the Koran by United States military personnel guarding Islamist prisoners at detention/prison facilities controlled by the United…

Gregory Bateson

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, I am not familiar with optimization theory directly — and do not have the tech math background to follow it in detail — but I am grasping enough from your indications to be able to make a…

St. John’s Bread And The Sun/Son Liturgy

Guidance And Request For The Bishops Memorandum For The Bishops November 12, 1996 Exegesis of St. John in the desert focuses, usually, on a diet of bugs washed down with a dollop of honey.  “Phew !” one thinks, and rightly, “Who would want to eat that?”  Well, apart from an assassin or a survivalist, no…

A Summary Of Our Findings

The original impetus for Christianity was Buddhism, primarily Tibetan. Buddhism is an atheistic spirituality and religion. The Three Wise Men were Tibetans and Jesus spent most of his life in Tibet, Kashmir and India. When Jesus returned to Palestine, unitarian monotheism was the stochastic structure in which the message and ministry of his mission could…

Suggested Questions for SEAD (Scholarly Engagement in Anglican Doctrine)

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. 1- Where is the Anglican Magisterium? 2- Which comes first: systematics, liturgy, scripture? 3- Does Anglican Doctrine include or need Logos Theology? What is Logos Theology? 4- Assuming that the Realism/Nominalism discussion is archetypal, how is it playing out today? 5- Is there…