Nathaniel R. Clark
@NathanielRClark
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Patiently authoring a book titled On The Cosmic Symbolism Of Bread about the theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and symbolism embodied in bread-making.
Bread Matrix
Joined December 2014
I've noticed that many so-called "symbolists" abuse polysemy to the point where they're indistinguishable from postmodernists. What do you think @AHomelyHouse? Have you encountered or observed this? In my experience, the people who do this have been militant Thomists who are
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An important lesson I learned from Fr Seraphim Rose when being critical of others: Accept the person, reject the ideas.
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The European mind cannot comprehend this
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I've been busy moving into a home built in the 1940's - a home that has needed love, attention, time, and of course... money. That said, I will still host a space on the leavened vs. unleavened bread controversy next year but it probably won't happen until maybe February when I
Will plan on a space at the turn of the year.
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And Jonathan's description of God's creation of the world out of love is dangerously close to emanationalist philosophies like Neoplatonism, which Dumitru Staniloae confronted in his book "The Holy Trinity: In the Beginning there was Love." One problem is that by saying it
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So far, I've been very impressed with the Oxford Early Christian Studies books.
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The pseudo-Orthodox DBH's Universalism is also logically consistent with St Gregory of Nyssa. All this to say, Augustine's moral teachings were absolutely Patristic while much of his theology was erroneous. He has a logical mind but not a metaphysical mind. As such, Westerners
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David Bentley Hart is a prime example of a stupid intellectual whose "Orthodox theology" should be completely ignored. "If he's [Sergei Bulgakov] wrong, he managed to come up with a better Christianity than Christianity." - DBH https://t.co/WTJ9mHvhtl
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The Post-Truth Prism has been faceted for some decades now; perhaps centuries. We're at a point in history where it's "safer" to assume that everything we see is fake and set out against us - that we're all prisoners in Plato's Cave. To be fair, it has always been this way,
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Frank Herbert's Dune is one of the best fiction stories I've read on geopolitics, grand conspiracies, and the use of religion(s) to influence / steer world outcomes.
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Without name dropping: There are those in the great sphere of attention who have Orthodox minds but not Orthodox hearts, and those who's hearts are Orthodox while their minds belong elsewhere. *** As for me, both my mind and heart are rotten and desperately need healing.
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My catechism notes from today with Father Paul Truebenbach: ✍🏼🧠☦️ 1. Learn to be silent more than you speak. 2. You don't need to have an opinion about everything – being overly opinionated leads to pride and judgmental temptation. 3. Find mundane aspects of spiritual life &
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"Aristotle...a powerful and fitting instrument...against all religion...the sole patriarch of almost all of the heretics, who learn to believe only what can be proved and demonstrated with absolute certainty by the senses and natural reason." - St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Doctor
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"Descend, that ye may ascend, and ascend to God, for ye have fallen, by ascending against Him." - St Augustine (Confessions)
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