As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Between February and April 2019, I produced a five-part series of posts entitled A Theology Of The Army. These are they: Introduction Liberation Perfection Absolution Conclusion The mind is made of the warp and woof of wishes. So the first thing to be conquered is the demon of…
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…
The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole From now on, it is impossible to do either Christian Theology or Christian Biblical Exegesis outside appreciative familiarity with Indian Theology and Indian Scriptural Exegesis. From now on, one cannot preach the Christian Gospel unless one also is able to preach the Ramayana, Gita, and Bhagavatha.…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT All problems are susceptible to theological analysis, and all analyses are theological in nature. The Army is a theological enterprise. Every activity, from thinking to kinetics, is a theological enterprise. Everything an Army…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I have noted before this that The Maid of Orleans led her Soldiers into the Confessional before she led them onto the Battlefield. Augustine remarks that the greatest of saints dies a penitent.…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A liberated person is justified freely to perfect their liberation, to make it ever more secure against loss, and to discover, flourish, and proliferate their intentions and skills. In theology this is called…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT For centuries, The Christian Liturgical Year as practiced in The Latin [Western] Church has followed the phenomenology of battle: 1- Into the Confessional (Advent) 2- Battle Preparation (Christmas) 3- Appearance of Battle Commander…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Purpose My purpose, duty, desire is to support, foster, honor the U.S. Army by bringing, moving, pivoting the theological content, component, spirit of civilization, history, country to support the U. S. Army’s existence…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In the mid-1980s, I saw the need to preserve and revive the theological arts. Living in Seattle at the time, I put a name to it: Seattle Society of Orthodox Theologians. My wife…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Colleges offer courses on ‘queering’ children, the Bible Apparently the writer neglected to survey The Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. This “project to queer theology [Christianity]” is ancient history…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT To start his famed biography of Christopher Columbus, Admiral Of The Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison establishes the context of Columbus’ career: Europe dispirited, dissolute, bored and generally lacking in get up and go.…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, I have discussed the nature and effects of ideology before now. Because the recent USA national election is — primarily, I think — a case study in that nature and its effects, a little AAR on 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 Now there IS “state-sponsored terrorism.” Actually, there has been all along. And it was not terrorism, it was — and is — Caliphism. al-Qaeda is marginalized by a truly able scholar/cleric enabled by a…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Here are interesting discussions regarding coincidences of theology and geography: The Interface Between Theology And Geography, by Denis Sutherland How Theology Is Rooted In Geography, by Scott Emery AMDG – VICTORY
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 Peter Berger ruminates upon Two German Cardinals and a Peruvian Dominican in the Vatican. The matter is hardly trivial. Update 1: 11MAY15: Vatican invites Gutierrez. Steven Hayward remarks. Update 2: Archbishop Oscar Romero…
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 Theology is a discussion of experience. It is a work of describing experience. It is work. Hard work. And it describes a definite set of experience: being whole, which means able…
