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Tag Archives: Moral questions
The Romantic Christ
Romanticism is very difficult to define and many attempts to define it resemble the cold rationalism from which it reacted some two hundred years ago. The subject fascinates me, not only as a historical state of mind in given circumstances … Continue reading
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Post-Modern Goliards
The theme has fascinated me for a long time. I feel profoundly dissatisfied with the development of conservative mores. I notice the fascination many of my contemporaries have for the generation born in the 1920’s and 30’s who lived their … Continue reading
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Christian Men
This reflection is totally unconnected with the series of postings on “muscular Christianity”, because I have truly finished with that subject. There is a related subject of the man’s role in the Church. Clearly, men and women have different points … Continue reading
The Vendée Genocide
When I was at seminary, a French historian came to give a lecture about the genocide in the Vendée in 1796, two years after Robespierre’s head had dropped into the basket. The people of that region of France (where I … Continue reading
Der Ubermensch
Perhaps Nietzsche Revisited? I read More From National Review’s David French on Masculinity and thought it would be best to ignore it. I have been brought to think about some of the more provocative stuff I have written in the past. … Continue reading
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Georges Bernanos and Boredom
Georges Bernanos (1888 – 1948) is one of my favourite modern French authors. His best known work is Journal d’un Curé de Campagne, first published in 1936. One would almost see in him the heavy and nihilistic existentialism of Camus … Continue reading
This one wasn’t written in the Villa Diodati!
I allude to the posting of a couple of days ago about the summerless year and the little threesome of Romantic poets in 1816 challenging each other to write scary stories. Mary Shelley wrote the terrifying and captivating story of … Continue reading
Beware of the Anglo-Catholics…
I have been away from the blog for nearly a week, dismantling a pipe organ, moving it and installing it in another church. It was hard work and that re-installation was followed by a visit to another church in the … Continue reading
More on Addiction
Updating my article of a few days ago on drugs, I have just discovered this amazing article Dr. Gabor Maté on the Stress-Disease Connection, Addiction and the Destruction of American Childhood. We read some extraordinary insights into the psychology of … Continue reading
Drugs
I have occasionally had occasion to write about addiction and reflect on points of view of those who are truly informed from medical and psychological points of view. Many things to which we can become addicted can be dangerous for … Continue reading
The Blue Flower 