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Roger – You can’t be expected to fill in every gap in my education, can you?... - roger on 27 July 2010
Billy, several things to say. First of all I had no idea that you had a blog! If it is public, I... - Billy Bishop on 27 July 2010
I could go on and on about this and maybe I will on my own blog. I hope I may be... - roger on 25 July 2010
Epsilon, I am very OK with this and thank you deeply. It is very good to know that people... - epsilon on 17 July 2010
I ‘ve dedicated a post to this today – hope you’re OK with this this is the... - roger on 17 July 2010
Epsilon, very good to hear from you as well! I did not know the link you gave, but am glad to... - epsilon on 12 July 2010
“the Hollow Men, who knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing, had lost... - roger on 10 July 2010
Very good to have your voice and insights back here, Edwin! As you may see from upcoming... - roger on 10 July 2010
Well, thank you Irish Cicero! - Edwin Shendelman on 4 July 2010
We can hardly think our society is the least bad so far. Lately, I’ve been... - Irish Cicero on 28 June 2010
This is an excellent post! Very well done. We linked you: http://washingtonrebel.type... - roger on 12 June 2010
Dean, Annig … First Dean, I am sorry to say I can do no more than wish you luck with your...
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Tag Archives: Materialism
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings II (Valentin Tomberg on Disintegration – Death)
My last web entry tried to introduce the personal context within which I try to grapple with Global Warming.
It is the context, as I said, of a practising Catholic aspiring to deep and very regular Sacramental Communion. It is also that of ongoing study of Catholic Tradition and the history of the transition from a Western medieval Catholic world [...]
Posted in Roger's Weblog Also tagged Capitalism, environment, Epistemology, Law, Valentin Tomberg 2 Comments
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings Part I (Introduction)
Authority … one has authority or competence to speak about something the more consciously and fully one has experienced it. In writing of things New Age for example, I feel a certain degree of confidence, given that I have had long, intimate involvement with this phenomena. I completely identified with the New Age movement for many [...]
Posted in Roger's Weblog Also tagged Capitalism, Catholic Mystery, environment, Valentin Tomberg Leave a comment
Global Warming and Catholic Response
In 1891, Pope Leo XIII brought forth the encyclical Rerum Novarum. It was a milestone in the Catholic Tradition, inaugurating a new era of Papal Social Encyclicals responding to the social injustice of the modern world.
The latest being the magisterial Caritas in Veritate of His Holiness Benedict XVI.
In Rerum Novarum Leo XIII challenged unrestricted capitalism, [...]
Valentin Tomberg: The Judas Kiss of Demythologisation
In my last weblog entry, I made reference to the materialism of the liberal Protestant theology of the likes of Rudolf Bultmann. And I noted briefly that this materialism had now tragically made its way into Catholicism, as well.
Thus do I recall the teaching of a certain Jesuit, who explained the Crucifixion in terms of [...]
Posted in Roger's Weblog Also tagged Church in Crisis, Demythologisation, Valentin Tomberg 4 Comments
Just the Facts, Ma’am
When I was a teenager in America, an evangelical Christian friend tried to convert me. He assured me that heaven would be made of gold. A city literally made of gold …
I pressed him. What would we be living in? Golden houses. What would we travel in? Golden cars. Everything would be gold. I wonder [...]
Catholic Tradition, Charles Taylor and the Final Triumph of the Hollow Men (Part II)