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The human person as priest of the cosmos
This is quite long but I’ve been wanting to transcribe it for a while and I’d done enough packing for one day today. It’s an extract from Father Louth’s lecture on “Maxim… more →
A vow of conversation
The human person as priest of the cosmos
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Macrina wrote 7 months ago: This is quite long but I’ve been wanting to transcribe it for a while and I’d done enoug … more →
Andrew Louth on the Fathers and Asceticism
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Macrina wrote 7 months ago: What can we learn from the Fathers, seen this time as fellow participants in times of radical change … more →
On leavened and unleavened bread
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Macrina wrote 1 year ago: Dipping into Greek East and Latin West. The Church AD 681-1071 as bedtime reading is probably not su … more →
"Rule 73 Benedictinism"
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Macrina wrote 1 year ago: It turns out that I am a Rule 73 Benedictine. I had never heard of Rule 73 Benedictinism before, but … more →
Louth on the mystical, VI: theoretikos
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Macrina wrote 1 year ago: Father Louth concludes this essay by noting the transformation that the word theoretikos has undergo … more →
Louth on the mystical, V: the invention of a canon
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Macrina wrote 1 year ago: … alongside the great attempts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to find in myst … more →
Louth on the mystical, IV: the fragmentation of the Western Christian tradition
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Macrina wrote 1 year ago: Whereas in the traditional understanding, the true body of Christ had been realized in the celebrati … more →
Louth on the mystical, III: the reception of Dionysius in the West
Macrina wrote 1 year ago: If we look for the ‘mystical’ in the Dionysian corpus, what we find is something deeply tradit … more →
Louth on the mystical, II: Christ as the divine mysterion
Macrina wrote 1 year ago: If the ‘mysticism’ of the Fathers is what these various uses of mystikos refer to, then it is … more →
Louth on the mystical, I: problematising "mysticism"
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Macrina wrote 1 year ago: … the more I have read and thought about the phenomenon of ‘mysticism’, the more I have … more →
Here endeth the lesson
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Macrina wrote 1 year ago: My last post was the final installment in my reading of Andrew Louth’s Discerning the Mystery … more →
Louth on Living the Mystery III: the Mystery of God in Christ
Macrina wrote 1 year ago: For theology is not simply a matter of learning, though we risk losing much of the wealth of the the … more →
Louth on Living the Mystery II: the life of the saint
Macrina wrote 1 year ago: Against the idea of a method that anyone may, in principle, use to attain truth, Newman points to so … more →
Louth on Living the Mystery I: a practical wisdom
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Macrina wrote 1 year ago: A division between the rational, communicable but superficial, and the intuitive, which moves us and … more →
The Return to Allegory: Some reflections on allegory and hermeneutics
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Macrina wrote 1 year ago: Since beginning to focus more on the Fathers of the Church in the last couple of years, I have becom … more →
Louth on the Return to Allegory V: Restoring a lost unity
Macrina wrote 1 year ago: … the spiritual meaning of the New Testament is the literal meaning. In what Jesus was and did … more →
Louth on the Return to Allegory IV: allegory as the fulfilment of history
Macrina wrote 1 year ago: De Lubac points out that the organic connection of the allegorical, moral and analogical senses mean … more →
Louth on the Return to Allegory III: holding us before the mystery of Scripture
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Macrina wrote 1 year ago: … what one discovers in allegory, according to Augustine – and he speaks for all the Fat … more →
Louth on the Return to Allegory II: reading as being engaged across the gulf of history
Macrina wrote 1 year ago: It was seen in the last chapter that tradition is that by which we receive Scripture and the context … more →
