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The Diseases of Modern Life as seen through the Secular Confessional

Friday, November 29, 2019

Rethinking Protestantism: II

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As Max Weber made clear, the Protestant Reformation will open up one of these two roads by erasing physically and symbolically the walls se...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Vatican II as Catholic Perestroika

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It is said that the priestly ordination of lay people in distant communities is necessary, because of the difficulty encountered by m...
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Thursday, October 31, 2019

The Wages of Monophorism

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  “Monophorism” was Blondel's term for a reigning clerical authoritarianism which on principle refused to recognize that grace can ...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Catholic NPC-ism

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As I have said before, any renewal of Western Society is only going to come about from a renewal of the Christian religion and therefor...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Rethinking Protestantism

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I think that it is a fairly standard trope in neoreactionary circles to lay the blame of modern Liberalism at the feet of Protestantism ...
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Sunday, September 08, 2019

Apologia

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I wish to apologise to my long suffering readers and to the commentators from my previous post.  Our friends at Google managed to lock me ou...
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Sunday, July 28, 2019

Christian Buddhism IV

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Service announcement: It's another religious post. In case people are wondering why I'm sticking to this theme at the moment it'...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Christian Buddhism III

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This error then had many forms; but especially, like nearly every error, it had two forms, a fiercer one which was outside the Church an...
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Thursday, July 11, 2019

Christian Buddhism II

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Atheist warning: this is a religious post. I'm focusing on religion at the moment since I feel that the main driver of Western decline...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Christian Buddhism

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One of the problems that unfortunately besets a great writer is that the quality of their writing frequently obscures the quality of their t...
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Friday, May 24, 2019

The Theology of Sexual Abuse II

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Every now and then I take a look at Commonweal magazine . As far as religious commentary goes it's a bit left-of-centre so I don't n...
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Thursday, May 09, 2019

Clericalism

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Sorry lads, another religious post. Clericalism is topical currently because of its purported relationship with the sexual abuse crisis aff...
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Sunday, April 21, 2019

Resurrection: Signs and Omens

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In ancient Rome it was the role of the auguries to determine the will of the Gods through the omens observed. The Romans, unlike our mod...
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