Particularly interesting is the kneeler 'thingy.' I recently asked a seminary professor here why it is a tradition (custom) that has been preserved for children to kneel when receiving simple gifts as well as for the young to greet their superiors and yet Churches no longer have kneelers and the practice of kneeling is even discouraged. Aren't we watering down the faith of the children who kneel to receive scholastic materials but receive Christ Himself in the Eucharist standing? You will be shocked at his answer: "Oh, no, children can make distinction between the two..."
Dancing always seemed to be an answer to human needs in Jane Austen's novels. And Alasdair MacIntyre cited her as a moral thinker in "After Virtue," so that settles it for me. Along those same lines, one of the best modern film makers, Whit Stillman, follows Austen's lead in all his movies and features dancing. So there, critics of (good, not immoral) dancing.
Hello Dr. K! I wanted to share with you my analysis of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith's study on the 1700th anniversary of the Nicean Creed. If my analysis holds, this document obscures the profound changes that it makes in shifting the "Credo" from an assent to the Triune God to a type of universal anthropological "faith" without acknowledging the shift. This is a momentous shift and, to my knowledge, remains largely unnoticed -- even while preparing the way for a more explicit abandonment of the tradition.
Thank you for the link to the Gaskovski post, which should be spread widely. Their whole site is a treasury of "Un-machining".
Particularly interesting is the kneeler 'thingy.' I recently asked a seminary professor here why it is a tradition (custom) that has been preserved for children to kneel when receiving simple gifts as well as for the young to greet their superiors and yet Churches no longer have kneelers and the practice of kneeling is even discouraged. Aren't we watering down the faith of the children who kneel to receive scholastic materials but receive Christ Himself in the Eucharist standing? You will be shocked at his answer: "Oh, no, children can make distinction between the two..."
Dancing always seemed to be an answer to human needs in Jane Austen's novels. And Alasdair MacIntyre cited her as a moral thinker in "After Virtue," so that settles it for me. Along those same lines, one of the best modern film makers, Whit Stillman, follows Austen's lead in all his movies and features dancing. So there, critics of (good, not immoral) dancing.
Hello Dr. K! I wanted to share with you my analysis of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith's study on the 1700th anniversary of the Nicean Creed. If my analysis holds, this document obscures the profound changes that it makes in shifting the "Credo" from an assent to the Triune God to a type of universal anthropological "faith" without acknowledging the shift. This is a momentous shift and, to my knowledge, remains largely unnoticed -- even while preparing the way for a more explicit abandonment of the tradition.
https://johnwwright77.substack.com/p/credo-in-unum-deum