Conflict Is Creative

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 Richard Fernandez notes three monitory conflicts inside the US Government, saying they illustrate a freeze up of the entire US system, by which he means our nation state.  His title, The Play Within The…

The Question Of Authority And Father Meloise Meehan, OSB

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 Many times and oft upon these inter-webs have I treated the subject of authority. It was the Winter of 1967-8.  I was completing a one-year internship — from The Union Theological Seminary, New York…

Swami Stories

In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT My western boots in the sea of sandals at Whitefield, Bangalore, India were a delightful sight. I was the only one who didn’t have trouble locating their footgear. When Swami finished speaking with me,…

Three Depositions On Theological Education

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 Deposition  I: Curriculum For A Theological Education Deposition II: Delusion And The Doctrine Of Original Sin Deposition III: A Festival Composition For The Feast Of The Holy Trinity D e p…

Epigrams V

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 No Nominalist system recognizes much less copes with the phenomenon of delusion. Every Realist system recognizes and more or less appropriately copes with the phenomenon of delusion.   To expand cosmology…

Epigrams II

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 origin and the termination of the species (a.k.a. genetic variation) is in the genomes, not in the history; in the structure, not in the activity; in the nature, not…