Bonhoeffer: Religionsloses Christentum (Religionless Christianity)

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 By Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The thing that keeps coming back to me, is what is Christianity, and indeed what is Christ for us today? The time when men could be told everything…

Catching Up With Bonhoeffer

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 Joseph Bottum, here in 2008 and here in 2013. Yeah, well, I’ve been dealing with that since 1967, and Bonhoeffer was way ahead of me in seeing it!  He was hung…

Rephrasing Bonhoeffer On Ethics

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 Ethics is a man reunited with his origin and laboring through all his faculties to do not his will but the will of his origin, which is that he be a…

The Rev. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Religionless Christianity

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 Christianity is religionless. It is not a religion. Christianity is a Faith, a Faith in, over, under, around and through Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ of history and history’s subordinate…

Attitudinal Data Points – April To August 2023 — Let’s Face Facts

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. You’re always in friction, competition, struggle, conflict with someone.The goal is to…

A Savings Bank Of American Concepts

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 Correlation Of Sovereign InterestsAndInvestment InMutual Benefits TalkListenManeuverBe SeriousMultivarianceMutual BenefitProfessionalizeKeep Your WordIndivisible…

Redesign US Armed Force And Reorient US Oligarchs

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. US salients (bases) west of San Francisco and east of New York…

Intelligence Community And Foreign Policy Establishment Are Not The USA

The old standards remain the standards.Fundamentals have not changed, only incidentals. We go here and there looking for God.Truth is, we are ever only looking right at Him. 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…

Theology and Ethics: Tillich and Niebuhr

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. From October 1995, excerpt of a discussiononline with a Christian Scientist. I was comparing Tillich as a theologian with Niebuhr as an ethicist. The main thing that keeps coming back to me about this distinction — which I feel is a real and useful one — is that…

On Purifying And Creating Institutions

The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole The answer, sufficient if not complete, is the family — husband, wife, children — the primal structure of existence, who make the whole perishing thing work and happily. The family is the indicated and necessary ecclesial polity, the one persisting ecclesial institution.  It is monastic.  There…

Hybrid Anchorite/Family Monasticism

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). Bonhoeffer and others, including I, sought for decades to articulate what we…

Thandava – XXIII

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT David R. Graham Roger locates the socialist virus in our educational system, and I think he is right about that, too. I would go farther and finger the teachers’ unions as the number…

Thandava – XIX

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I find that where theologians tend to be refined but not clever, attorney’s tend to be clever but not refined.  Perhaps somewhere in there there is room for alliance, as in days of…

Preach The Gospel, Fill The Churches

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT One visits the dentist to have work done on one’s teeth.  One visits the grocery store to obtain comestibles.  One visits the police station to report a crime or suspicion of one.  One…

Today’s Axis Of Evil

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 Life is dynamic, no thing stays the same over time.  Essence always is essence, beyond form and energy, beyond dialectics, but existence always is building, re-building, morphing, re-morphing; always existence, always…