Tag Archives: Gnosticism

The Nordic Catholic Church and Gnosticism

Posted on Thursday, 27 February, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Update from 5th March 2020. I have received various bits of new information and I am concerned not to be an obstacle in the developing relationship between our churches. Bishop Flemestad has a remarkably lucid philosophical view of the fundamental … Continue reading →

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Caste, Class and Determinism

Posted on Sunday, 14 October, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am beginning work on my article for The Blue Flower, Christmas edition, on the theme of nobility of spirit. I have found this theme fascinating in the work of Berdyaev, a Russian Orthodox philosopher influenced by German Idealism, the … Continue reading →

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Two Worlds

Posted on Sunday, 9 September, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been neglecting this blog for some time, partly due to personal issues and partly due to having had a major computer crash. My data is backed up and some recent stuff is being saved from the hard disk … Continue reading →

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As the dust settles…

Posted on Saturday, 9 June, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It usually takes contradiction to come to a wise point of view. Thesis and antithesis bring about synthesis as we often oversimply from Hegel’s dialectics. I see caricatures all over the place, and the kind of thing that alienates most … Continue reading →

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Introspection and Exploration

Posted on Wednesday, 27 January, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I continue doing my homework, and I have found a wealth of valuable information on the Internet. Life on the Spectrum is an English-based site, and avoids some of the psycho-hype one might find across the Atlantic. It is above … Continue reading →

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Other Enquiring Minds

Posted on Friday, 15 January, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I once spent a couple of days with Fr Michael Wood at an Orthodox monastery in France. He is a Russian Orthodox priest of Australian and Anglican origins, and runs a western rite mission in England. He spends time on … Continue reading →

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Post-post-everything

Posted on Friday, 15 January, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Since my writing up Monsignor Pope’s article in my posting a few days ago, The Challenge of Downsizing, our good friend JV has posted “Tridentine” stagnation in a post-Summorum Pontificum world. It makes things even clearer. What is a Church without … Continue reading →

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David Icke

Posted on Tuesday, 5 January, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I wrote an article about the Archons in Gnostic mythology, something more or less parallel to demons in ours as Christians. I thought it appropriate to mention David Icke as a controversial figure who has recently become interested in Gnosticism … Continue reading →

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The Fool’s Quest for Secret Knowledge

Posted on Monday, 4 January, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In my present haphazard studies of Gnosticm, mainly through books by Elaine Pagels, Stephan Hoeller and Jean-Yves Leloup, I discover that there is a whole discrepancy of understanding between “true gnosticism” and the various caricatures thrown about by polemicists. My … Continue reading →

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Archons

Posted on Thursday, 31 December, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Modern cinema, especially in science fiction epics like Star Trek and Star Wars, is a dramatic reflection of human psychology and mythology. We find images of the conflict of good and evil often grossly simplified but often based on ideas … Continue reading →

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