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your faith is strong .you are in my prayers.god bless you and god bless the pope.... - roger on 28 February 2010
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Tag Archives: Valentin Tomberg
Outraging Modern Sensibilities …
Dear Readers, I wish you all a Blessed New Year.
Now this will not be so much a usual entry, but more a pointer to a very long comment concerning Valentin Tomberg I have posted elsewhere here.
If this link does not take you directly to the long comment, you will just need to scroll down the page till you get [...]
Who I am – Some Notes (Part I)
xThere are many blogs where the blogger reveals a great deal of his or her personal life and day-to-day affairs. And such, I am sure is appropriate and meaningful for many forums.
I have wanted to do something a bit different here: to try to address more universal themes, and use the personal mainly for illustrative purposes.
But for [...]
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings IV (Valentin Tomberg on False Hierarchy)
I no longer recall my exact words of course.
But the essence of the conversation remains engraved on my mind.
It was a warm, sunny Spring day in France. People in shirt sleeves were frolicking in the shine. But it was too warm, too pleasant. It was too early in the Spring.
My beloved turned to me and said: “We aren´t going to [...]
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings III (Valentin Tomberg on Law and the Goddess Economy)
What kind of civilisation is it, that could result in the most unimaginable scale of loss as that suggested by Global Warming?
Is it arguably not a civilisation which has placed certain goods - or gods – above all else? For example, the exterior good of scientific progress over and above the interior good of prayer, veneration, devotion [...]
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, Materialism 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 [...]
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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 [...]
Valentin Tomberg turns to the LIFE of the Church …
In this ongoing review of Valentin Tomberg’s complex and profound jurisprudence writings, we have been considering his evaluation of a degenerating modern society – whose degeneration stems - he says – from its tendency in recent centuries to SEVER.
That is, to SEVER not only jurisprudence from morality, philosophy and theology – the ground from which it sprang, but also [...]
Valentin Tomberg: One Must Have Courage to Recognise the Fatal Tree
As I enter my third reading of Valentin Tomberg´s doctoral and postdoctoral theses, much, very much continues to strike me. For these writings are complex and multilayered, not to say at times, tremendously profound. As with his other Catholic writings, I have the sense that I may well read these ten or twenty times and [...]
Stunning New Vistas …
I have indicated here my profound, immeasurable gratitude for the possibility of reading Valentin Tomberg’s two Catholic studies on Jurisprudence in English. I feel I should extend this same gratitude to the translator, Gabriele R. Jabouri, whose work of translation for the Anglophone world of course, I cannot help but also judge of profound and immeasurable significance …
As [...]
The Moral Oxygen of Valentin Tomberg
Broken Record: There are delays in resuming this weblog - at least in the way I had originally envisaged – while I need to ponder and indeed struggle with certain interior considerations. “Broken record” I say, as I have been saying this for weeks now …
I think I am nearing resolution. In the meantime, I am [...]
Valentin Tomberg on “A Special Intervention from Heaven …”
Dear Friends, known and unknown,
I continue to feel need for a time of contemplation before resuming this weblog “properly”. In the meantime, I expect I will be posting another article and further reviews, including possibly reviews of Valentin Tomberg’s Degeneration and Regeneration of Jurisprudence and Foundations of International Law as Humanity’s Law - whose towering moral [...]
Pointing and Stammering: French Noël 2006
A fragmentary, very personal piece touching on Catholic France, the Sacred Heart, the Da Vinci Code, Valentin Tomberg, the Novus Ordo, global capitalism and more ...
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Valentin Tomberg: The Impoverishment of Protestantism