SBL was fantastic. M and I both went to some wonderful sessions. I completely got my world rocked and have a whole new model of Pauline cosmology now. Good thing my diss isn’t on that—I’d have to start over. The best things was seeing people, of course. Hung out with Anastasia, had a great chat with AKMA in the book room, reconnected with undergrad friends. Great motivation to keep working on the diss again…
Couldn’t find the car keys this morning–spent about a half hour searching even going to the extreme of waking Lil’ G and asking her if she’d swiped them (not altogether an impossibility…). Finally found them in a pants pocket. I so hate the Monday off a long weekend!
Since I couldn’t get off on time, I had to drive in all the way so no Morning Office…again. Short of adopting the patented bls commute-Office it certainly is harder to do it without a mass transit component to my day.
I’m in a malaise. It happens. Still not online much as you may well have noticed. I’m feeling like profound thoughts are in the near future–but certainly have none now…
M and I are planning what we are going to do for Advent.
First 10 on the Morning Random Playlist:
Atmosphere (Joy Division)
Heart and Soul (Joy Division)
Wearing and Tearing (Zeppelin)
Splintered in Her Head (The Cure)
Stairway to Heaven (Zeppelin)
Cold (The Cure)
Love (Anonymous 4/Hildegard von Bingen)
Wake up (Rage Against the Machine)
I’M Looking Forward to It (NIN)
This is a Lie (The Cure)
Tonight we leave on the road trip to DC. Following Fr. Director’s advice, my
main goal is just to mingle and meet people, especially those of my own age
and situation–because they’ll be my colleagues in the coming decades…
So–I’ll be having an Anglican-Politics-Free weekend on what may turn out to
be an eventful couple of days.
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The big American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature meeting
happens this weekend in Washington. We’re going…all of us. It’ll be an
adventure.
Anybody else going?
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Here’s another one of those cool projects in the back of my head that I’ll
probably never get around too… As I’ve mentioned before, my main problem
with the common theology of the Anglican Missal and Breviary is that it is
fundamentally Scholastic. I’ve said before and I’ll say again that I believe
one of the major directions that the English Reformers took was to
explicitly reject Scholastic theology but to retain a non-Scholastic, more
monastic flavored catholicism.
So here’s my idea: a book designed not as a replacement but as a supplement
to the Offices of the BCP that would offer suggestions on the ordines and
content of the Offices, primarily drawn from pre-Scholastic English monastic
sources. Thus, it would include recommendations for Office Hymns, a modified
kalendar, the various little offices (Dead, Holy Cross, BVM), and other
assorted stuff. Again, the intent would not be replacement but
supplementation, to help people see their offices in a new way and think
about what it means to be part of catholic tradition.
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I love all the wrangling and discussion now that the Democrats have control over Congress. Especially speculation about all the new directions we can go in. It’s very amusing.
Nobody’s calling for the government control of main utilities. Nobody’s calling for the dissolution of the corpoate structure. Nobody’s calling for the redistribution of the country along ethnic or religious lines. The Democrats and Republicans are only arguing about the redistributions of relatively small percentages around the national budget. The truth is an open secret: We have the best damn one-party political system in the world…
Greetings and a blessed Martinmas to you all. Things still press heavily around the household and I haven’t gotten out online as much as I’d like. However, a Martinmas greeting seems in order. Despite the unseasonably warm weather we’re having here, Martinmas served for the Gallican church the same function that St Andrew’s day does in the Roman and later traditions: the harbinger of Advent, the Winter Lent. Even the RCL in it’s warm fuzzy modernity seems to recognize this and the mass readings will begin taking an eschatological turn until Advent is upon us again.
So, with Bach ringing in our ears, it’s time to “Bestelle dein haus”–get your house in order; the Approach is almost upon us. The tension of holding together the historical Approach at Bethlehem and the eschatological Approach at the End of Time is best accomplished through the mediation of the spiritual Approach, the coming of Christ into the heart of each believer.
Let us follow, then, Martin’s words and example and–furthermore–the path he exemplified. As the Father of Gallican Monasticism he passed down an orthodox Christianity strongly rooted in the best traditions of Stoicism, emphasizing the cultivation of virtue as the preeminent path into the mind of Christ.
Greetings and a blessed Martinmas to you all. Things still press heavily around the household and I haven’t gotten out online as much as I’d like. However, a Martinmas greeting seems in order. Despite the unseasonably warm weather we’re having here, Martinmas served for the Gallican church the same function that St Andrew’s day does in the Roman and later traditions: the harbinger of Advent, the Winter Lent. Even the RCL in it’s warm fuzzy modernity seems to recognize this and the mass readings will begin taking an eschatological turn until Advent is upon us again.
So, with Bach ringing in our ears, it’s time to “Bestelle dein haus”–get your house in order; the Approach is almost upon us. The tension of holding together the historical Approach at Bethlehem and the eschatological Approach at the End of Time is best accomplished through the mediation of the spiritual Approach, the coming of Christ into the heart of each believer.
Let us follow, then, Martin’s words and example and–furthermore–the path he exemplified. As the Father of Gallican Monasticism he passed down an orthodox Christianity strongly rooted in the best traditions of Stoicism, emphasizing the cultivation of virtue as the preeminent path into the mind of Christ.
Well, now… It seems that (+)+Schori is gonna do this thing head-on: she’s
invited ++Akinola, ++Gomez, ++Nzimbi, and ++Akrofi to come chat while
they’re visiting Falls Church this November. It will be *very* interesting
to see what kind of response she gets.
This was a savvy move; we’ll see how the African/Southern Primates play
it…
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