Jack Chisnall
@holyfooling
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Former gag peddler. Words in @TheCriticMag @CatholicHerald @FirstThingsMag @Christianitymag Boring theological thoughts at https://t.co/RkHPuAiGMU
United Kingdom
Joined February 2024
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A slight resemblance to @redeemed_zoomer if born into solid Tory Anglican gentry.
Great Houses & Estates has over 500,000 followers on Instagram. It was launched in mid September 2024
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RT @firstthingsmag: The Rise and Fall of English Exceptionalism. “The English have always thought highly of themselves. ”.— Jack Chisnall….
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The English have always thought highly of themselves. St. Bede the Venerable heralded the evangelization of the Angles as the beginning of a very special relationship: “the goodness of...
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RT @Christianitymag: Who was John Henry Newman? And what is a Doctor of the Church?. Jack Chisnall, who lived in Newman's student room at O….
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St John Henry Newman, one of the most influential English theologians of the 19th century, is to be made a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo. Jack Chisnall, who lived in Newman's room at Oxford,...
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RT @StMichael71: He came up with development of doctrine to save orthodox Christianity in its confessional Protestant form. Then he realize….
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I used to live in St John Henry Newman's room when I was a student at @TrinityOxford . There was a big plaque on the front door: NEWMAN ROOM. It was where a soon-to-be Doctor of the Church studied and slept. I reflect on that here:
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RT @firstthingsmag: The Beatles’ records were the productions of geniuses who turned away from the Christian sun, even while basking their….
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RT @BMcGrewvy: "Yeah man I guess I'm just not naturally religious. I don't feel the Christian feels. Gotta wait for God to zap me I guess.….
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Jesus After the Critics "Pagels’s book shows that an older confidence in the power of criticism to modernize faith by getting history right and removing the irrational, superstitious elements from Judaism and Christianity has waned".
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Quests for the “historical Jesus” are as old as Christianity itself. The claims of Jesus’s earliest followers and the strange communities to which they gave rise were so extravagant...
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MAX WEBER: CAN WE FIND MEANING AND VALUE IN A POST-CHRISTIAN WORLD?. Latest Substack in which I reread Weber's quite prophetic lecture 'Science as a vocation'. Link below!
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RT @Cato37232237: For centuries, art historians claimed Michelangelo's horned Moses was based on Jerome's "crude translation error" in the….
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RT @TheCriticMag: Catholicism and Pentecostalism are arguably the most au fait with the supernatural element of Christianity, writes @holyf….
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My wedding ceremony was a strange brew. One half represented my churchmanship: ornate “smells and bells”, a careful liturgy, and an aspiration to look and sound ancient. The other half represented...
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RT @Christianitymag: ‘No man knoweth the hour’: The biblical case for ditching due dates.@holyfooling.
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With just five per cent of births occurring on their predicted date, Jack Chisnall says it's time for Christians to embrace uncertainty - and what it reveals about faith, hope and the renewal of all...
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My latest subby - on Pope Leo XVI's recent concern for how faith deals with technological/scientific development. Also deals with whether the Church of England helps you to believe in aliens, and how Einstein may have made miracles sound plausible again. Link below.
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The right question. Reminds of the famous Wittgenstein remark to Anscombe: "And how would it look if the earth went round the sun?". Would the skeptic really be won over if accounts stated that the Risen Jesus' body, say, bubbled away into aether?.
@Philip_Goff What do you think ascending to heaven should look like?.
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CHURCH UNITY ON GOOD FRIDAY. Some (hopefully not too fond) reflections on how the prevention of consecration means world Christianity is united, for a small span, in the absence of Christ.
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RT @FrDavidPalmer: Catholics outnumber Anglicans two to one among Gen Z churchgoers.
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Top drawer stuff. My little theology brain reads this as yet more confirmation that there really is no 'going back' to Christendom, as nice as some retro kicks are. The apparent 'religious re-emergence' we are seeing has to reckon with that much.
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