As I mentioned before, the criteria for being on my blogroll is that I feel a certain blog has proved to be a noticeable influence on whatever I’m doing in my own blog. There are a long list of blogs, however, that I read just for enjoyment. Here are four of the best-written of that long [...]
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Blogs That Don’t Belong in my Blogroll, but to Which I Wish to Link, Nevertheless
Posted in Literature, Orthodox Christianity, Writing, tagged Blogroll, Blogs, Book Reviews, Books, Church of England, Eastern Orthodoxy, Links, Literature, Reading, Roman Catholicism, Writing on October 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
A Conversation About Things That Bow Down
Posted in Literature, Orthodox Christianity, tagged Bow, Conversations, Courtesy, Creation, Form, God, Heaven, Humility, Meaning, Poetic, Shape, Sky on July 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A: If our world had been formed and filled by some lesser god, I think he would have made the vast mistake of laboring with too straight a back.
His steely arrowed finger would stab the depths, jolting them to fertility. Then he’d raise his dripping arm, and glaring across the sudden plains, he’d loose a lightning lash of life.
Oh, I have some idea in what anguished, [...]
A High View of the Inspiration of Scripture
Posted in Literature, Orthodox Christianity, tagged Athanasius, Bible, Chant, Chanting, Christian Music, Christianity, Church, Church Music, Inspiration, Music, Old Books, Orthodoxy, Poetry, Psalms, Scripture, Singing, Singing Psalms, Song, Theology, Theories of Inspiration, Verbal Plenary Inspiration on July 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
“Deamons fear the words of holy men and cannot bear them; for the Lord Himself is in the Words of Scripture and him they cannot bear.”
(Words from Athanasius On the Interpretation of the Psalms.)
I think this is what you might call a sacramental view of scripture, and I do find it a “higher” view than [...]
The Gods, Face to Face
Posted in Literature, tagged Books, C. S. Lewis, Myths, Orthodoxy, Till We Have Faces on April 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Today I finished reading C. S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces. I first read it a few years ago and was almost completely bewildered by it. Yet I have no doubt it helped make me Orthodox. Now it provides endless material for cogent, deep thought.
It’s funny. You don’t really understand something; but it makes you more Orthodox. [...]
Fiction and the Church – Nothing More Beautiful than Good Religion, Nothing Uglier than Religion Gone Bad
Posted in Literature, tagged Books, Christianity, Church, Fiction, Novels, Religion, Truth, Western Christianity on December 6, 2007 | 9 Comments »
I realize that few figures lend themselves visually to thoughts of intrigue and mystery more than the hood of a monk. Nevertheless this trend in which exciting fictional stories feature a church as archvillian is distressing to me mainly because of the church’s identification with Christ, whom I love beyond anything. Still, I’m not ready to say that there is [...]
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