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He Misses Somebody He’s Never Even Met
Over at Humanum I have a piece on David Foster Wallace’s analysis symptoms of the perennial human condition that are aggravated by our own times. Continue reading
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Latin Scholastic Mystagogy
A story one sometimes hears from clerics who attended liberal seminaries in the 1970s is that, unlike the mystagogues of the East, the scholastics of the Latin West did not appreciate the riches of the liturgy. Obsessed as they were with the essential matter and form of the Sacraments, and the juridical and requirements for… Continue reading
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The Great Struggle
The brothers asked Agatho, ‘Abba, which virtue in our way of life needs most effort to acquire?’ He said to them, ‘I may be wrong but I think nothing needs so much effort as prayer to God. If anyone wants to pray, the demons try to interrupt the prayer, for they know that prayer is… Continue reading
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Fastidium doctrinae
Palladius said, ‘The soul which is being trained according to the will of Christ should either be earnest in learning what it does not know, or should publicly teach what it does know. If it wants to do neither, though it could, it is mad. The first step on the road away from God is… Continue reading
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“A relaxed imperial Catholic integralism, mit Schlag”
Over at Theopolis, Susannah Black Roberts has a nice reflection on the Austrian empire, attempting to “read” the cityscapes of Vienna and other cities once under Habsburg rule—she mentions the peculiar feel that cities such as Trieste, and Ljubljana and Varaždin and Zagreb have. (Trieste seems to me a slightly special case, because of the… Continue reading
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A Note on Political Theology
“Political theology” is a somewhat ambiguous term. Carl Schmitt means by it that apparently secular political terms (and their relations) are really based on theological analogies. To fully understand the conceptualization of (for example) the relation of sovereign and the people, and how it shifted over time, one has to understand the theological analogy behind the… Continue reading
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