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Tag Archives: Romanticism
To be a Romantic or not, that is the question…
This little piece is intended to replace a criticism I made of a posting written by a brother priest and a dear friend. By deleting the post, I was certainly more severe on myself than on him. What concerned me … Continue reading
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Tagged Faith and Reason, Fides et Ratio, Rationalism, Romanticism, Traditionalism
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Science or Ideology?
I am quite amazed to see people floundering in the present crisis, as I find myself doing so myself. We are victims of propaganda and half-truths, even to ideologies and discourses that are hardly more sophisticated than those of Goebbels … Continue reading
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Tagged Coronavirus, Enlightenment, Epistemology and Truth, Politics, Romanticism, Science
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Self Reliance
This is a theme on which I have already touched in my posting about Transcendentalism which I encountered through Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was distinguished through his Self-Reliance. It is a point that is still uppermost in my … Continue reading
Informal talk on the Use of Sarum
Here is an informal talk on my book A Twitch on the Sarum Thread with greater insistence on the founding cultural and philosophical principles underlying liturgical traditions. Indeed it is not specifically about the Sarum Use / Rite but the … Continue reading
An Easter Day Ramble
I have put this little talk on my Romantic Christianity book. I finish with IX of the Spiritual Songs by Novalis on the Resurrection – in German and then in George McDonald’s beautiful English translation.
Reilly’s Romantic Religion
I have just begun to read R.J. Reilly’s Romantic Religion which is certain to make something I wrote with a similar title pale into insignificance. However, when I wrote Romantic Christianity, I was unaware of the existence of Reilly’s book. … Continue reading
Romantic and Patristic Liturgy in Louis Bouyer
The work of Louis Bouyer (1913-2004) was a unique contribution to French ressourcement theology. A convert from Lutheranism and a French Oratorian, he followed John-Henry Newman in many ways, inspired by Newman’s patristic approach rather than a slavish conversion to … Continue reading
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Tagged Liturgy, Medieval Catholicism, Pastoral matters, Philosophy, Romanticism, Sarum, Theology
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Anglican Catholicism, a twitch upon the thread
I have been looking at a fascinating thread on the Anglican Ordinariate Forum on Facebook. Some of those people reflect well, among those of a more fearful disposition. I will try to give a general gist of some of these … Continue reading
Romantic Reconstruction or Intellectual Prestige
The question keeps nagging away in my mind. A little handful of people in the past and today keep producing books and articles about the Rite / Use of Sarum but cannot get through the barrier represented by the fact … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglicanorum coetibus, Liturgy, Roman Catholicism, Romanticism, Sarum
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A Twitch on the Sarum Thread
I have just published this new book after quite a lot of feverish writing and recycling of some of my blog work. I have also included Canon Warren’s translation of the Order of Mass with the rubrics (in italics). See … Continue reading
