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 words of The Church’s Creed include these: “… and [we believe] in One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church ….” The object of the verb believe in the phrase just quoted…
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 Alert: In May of 2015, I became aware of indications (and here, here, and here) that Liberation Theology is a disinformation active measure of the KGB … and, one presumes, its continuation under the…
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…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, A close friend recently removed themselves from the membership roles of the United Church of Christ. I responded with several notes over a period of days, as follows: First: Thanks, and I a UCC ordinand and ECUSA member! Well, at least I…
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 I have been listening to the St. Matthew Passion (Karl Richter conducting) just now and saw for the first time (!) an obvious and primal significance: that the first stable recognition…
The question of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin is still a vivid symbolization of at least three questions in physics and mathematics, which is to say, in philosophy and theology: 1- What is the relationship between the immaterial and the material (the question arising in any communication by or…
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 Dear Students, The Denominations called Christian have a future as organizations. Christianity has no future inside them. Christianity may emerge from the Denominations, in the following ways. First, the sanctuaries may…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Not Reincarnation The case for reincarnation in Christianity is very strong but oblique and not in the terms we ordinarily think of as reincarnation. Rebirth would better describe the sense of it, but…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Another thought on this “where does the Kshatriya spirit go” during Kali Yuga?” The generic and most important answer is that it goes where everything good goes, namely, into the monastery, which is…
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 churches are a corpus mixtum. Some members belong to the Church and some do not. Since, in the churches, those who do not belong to the Church outnumber those who do,…
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 first thing is to recognize the facts, the essentials, the constants, the fundamenta, the intrinsic phenomena. These are distinguished from the variables, the ephemera, the partialities, the extrinsic phenomena. This…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Memorandum II is here. To: The Rector and Vestry From: The Rev. David R. Graham Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 Subject: Church And The Delivery Of Grace When the German pastors signed the oath to Hitler and…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. In the spring of 1999, I initiated a fairly brief but compelling correspondence with Barbara Thiering, the great Australian master of biblical exegesis. Dr. Thiering was gracious and generous, helping me with questions I had developed while pondering her works Jesus the Man and…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, It was a serious question about “preaching” today and a technical one. The background is NT scholarship of the last 200 years, since Reimarus knocked the stuffing out of the scholars and the church. Kerygma is a technical word from the NT meaning “Preaching”…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, I So-And-So, I have realized what it is you wish us to understand: vedanta and, therefore, the parameters of acceptable discussion are the details of your marketing plan for your line of products. Vedic/Pythagorean scholars and theraputes do not accept much less…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Swami mentioned years ago that the Sai Avathars are all Siva: Shirdi as Siva alone, Sathya as Siva-Shakthi and Prema as Shakthi alone. He also mentioned that the Sai (Siva) Avathars are here…
