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 In 1965, Harvey Cox published The Secular City. The volume was notorious for attacking the “old” as “old” and promoting the “new” as “new.” Cox stirred waves in many quarters, including the editorial office…
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…
The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole I have taken to denoting Socialists, Leftists, Progressives, Communists, Liberals, Deep Staters, Libertarians, Conservatives, Fascists, Administrative Staters, and those answering to related designations, such as The [soi-disant] Foreign Policy Establishment, as Transgressives. I think the name Transgressive plumbs the fundamentals of these obsessives across the range of…
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Man up, Christian. You say you are the church militant, start acting like one. The churches — as distinguished from The Church, the Power and Spiritual Community Who animates the churches and to Whom the churches belong — need general staffs. To the objection that this assertion assumes church polity is episcopal…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Jesus as the Christ brought regeneration, something new, not revolution, overturning the old. The old He abandoned to self-destruction, the most loving thing to do for it. His focus was a new being,…
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 Take One on the question Where Is The Church? is here. The church is where I/you am/are. It is what we do. It is us discharging our several duties. It is the work…
The truth is like a lion. You do not have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself. St. Augustine of Hippo 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 Set-Up Last month, The Washington Compost produced…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The Barth/Bultmann cartoon isn’t meant to be funny, I think, it’s meant to illustrate a lack of common notation, language, betwen two supposed theologians. The cartoon is more like a subtle mock of both men for their…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Francis’ plane interview is 100% pastoral and legal, 0% theological. Nothing apposite the need in re the latter. He evinces a small background intellectually, not comfortable in the howling winds of statecraft, which…
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 inability of the US Constitution to protect religion from profanization and demonization and therefore society from hustlers and demoniacs claiming the authority of religion — because everyone then knew, well…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Theologians and clergy have been preaching from pop culture rather than to it. For this reason world politics are at a mess. Pop culture is Manichaean: it revels in sensuality and sanctimony simultaneously. This means it is suicidal. What should theologians and clergy say…
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 a Power of Being, not an accident of history, not a chance operation. Religionless Christianity is not a condition imposed on the churches by secular powers. It is 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 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 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…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. The dissolution that characterized the 1960s in Europe and the Americas started with Pierre Boulez’ attack on Arnold Schoenberg, in the form of a notoriously nasty obituary dated 1952 and titled Schoenberg Est Mort!. The dissolution was made irrevocable by Harvey Cox’s attack…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Letter to Katherine A. Kersten regarding her essay of 17 September 1999 in the Wall Street Journal, To Hell With Sin. Your essay is very nice, right on the reality. The line that especially resonates with me is: Largely drained of doctrine, [the church] strikes…
