Punitive Operations And Atonement

Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. B L U F From this moment on, everything D-R UniParty do,…

Der Schwerpunkt: Americans Are A Nation Among Nations

Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. For generations, Americans have grown up without the fun of knowing their…

The Center Of History

Mark Tapscott made a rather well-intentioned but ill-informed post regarding the open tomb on Sunday morning of Holy Week. This gave me opportunity, so I commented four times: 1 Allow is a prickly and pungent word in this context. No doubt why it was picked. IMO: He had no choice. He was bound and beaten.…

The Parable Of The Talents

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. The Parable of the Talents is a monitory story, a warning, that describes power, responsibilities appertaining thereunto, and consequences of its employment or unemployment, aka abuse. A talent is a power. In First Century Judea and Samaria it was a denomination of money, one of some size. Money,…

Angelo M. Codevilla

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I admire Angelo M. Codevilla, a distinguished scholar and gentleman.  This post will collect his online writings that I find. At The Claremont Institute At The American Spectator At Instapundit At Hoover Institution…

A Fraud In The White House / “The Messiah” From Hell

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, I believe the central objective of the new politics we need should be a massive, sweeping, radical redistribution of power.  From the state to citizens; from the government to Parliament; from Whitehall to communities. From the EU to Britain; from judges to…

Jane Fonda

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 Jane is an actress, first, last and foremost. She is now and was in 1972 thoroughly aware of the PR implications of her actions in Vietnam. *Some* details of the story…

Questions For Barbara Thiering

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…

Realism, Budget, Staffing And The Truth About Apostolic Succession

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, A Planting Apostolic Succession is not a palpation.  It is a way of living.  St.  Jerome said, “A vestment does not make a bishop.” A laying on of hands does not make an ordination. Recently, our parish church witnessed this truth in…

The Solar Dynasty

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 On the subject of India and USA, I want to mention a little history that I find enlightening and cheering. The summary is that USA is, as Swami said, member of…

Implications of Incarnation Theology / A Conversation

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 Christian Scientist and I were discussing the sentence, “Reason is the record of our connectivity with God.”  A conflation of my side of the conversation follows. Reason is a word…

Theology of the Mass – A Coup d’œil

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 Second set of comments on a new Anglican Mass, plus, response to demand for verification of Pythagorean background of Christian theological formation. I am deeply saddened, as you must be also,…

Homage À Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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 Intent, regarding this Mass and spiritual discipline in general: Remove dogma of surrogate atonement and restore repetition of the Name. Remove panhandling (“O God! Grant …!”) and restore intimacy. Remove dogma that clergy…

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 III

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 All that is embodied embodies all.   India, United States, Russia, Germany and Japan are going to destroy the Chinese capacity for belligerence so that the Chinese can be taught.  …