Untold Fortune
@UntoldFortune
"It is as though he has become all fire." ☦️ Just your average Burkean, Wittgensteinian, Protestant Origenist.
Anyone claiming to be authentically Augustinian that doesnt have the balls to reject a few councils is fraudulent, weak in constitution, and slightly delusional. @Alice_Mary96 is what a real Augustinian looks like. @RyanHaecker is an utterly depraved Jesuit operative and shill…
Father Herman continues to be a chad and not merely a western larping as an eastern.
Guess I'll tap the sign… x.com/hmkherman/stat…
The argument against univocal predication in full.
Moo Deng is "Actus Purus".
The one observation that truly does yield hope amidst the perennial darkness of conflict and division in the history of Christianity- "...the principal reason that so many confessional and theological differences of such enormous consequence, on matters so basic to the faith,…
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As a religious order dedicated to searching beyond the horizons of theory and practice, the mission of the Society of Jesus extends beyond the human and the animal to proclaim the Gospel to the angelic choirs of computers.
Quite possibly the perfect comparison to Augustine: "God does not love you as you are, but only as He wills you to be."
I'll continue to maintain I support that practice in application to Alexandrian and Cappadocian Patristics, though.
I'm sure most of us got the "Don't give into peer pressure" lesson as kids. But I see too many of you come on here and start saying "He's cool" "That's based" "She's so popular" And then you start posting phrases and memes associated with misogyny or Nazi's and crap. Weak.
To imprison a wizard
If you’re Catholic you know exactly how to use this space.
Which is to say that the theologian exceeds the poet precisely insofar as they ultimately recognize by even their own reason: "true knowledge [is] the seeing that consists in not seeing"
An unbelievably good selection for a western. Sub in Cyril of Alexandria for Maximus, and this is pretty much my own chart as well.
My theological views summed up in 4 pictures:
An excellent observation, including that singularly funny moment in which Luther "did a nominalism" and would be quite unjustly remembered for it for *all of history*. 🤣 Nevertheless, DBH speaks about these things in the manner I find rather grating at times. As though…
"Western theology made its own, quite substantial, contributions to modern 'nihilism': when nominalism largely severed the perceptible world from the analogical index of divine transcendence, and thus reduced divine freedom to a kind of ontic voluntarism, and theophany to mere…
Worth sharing because a) I love Cusa, and Bret usually picks his passages well. b) It really do be like “Christian theology or shameless, literary sentimentalism?” when it comes to @BretVDB
The Dead Sea Scrolls have, “They have pierced my hands and feet” in Psalm 22:16. So does the Septuagint (LXX) and some minority manuscripts of the Masoretic Text (MT). It is the original reading. Praise and sing.
This meme remains such a favorite of mine because- although it is not a *serious* critique of the Filioque- it nevertheless illustrates two very important facts: A) Translating philosophical concepts into Christian language is not necessarily a bad thing. It might even be a…
If only you knew how bad the Filioque really is.
Gennadius’s word here is about as good as his philosophy. Which is to say: Not at all.
"If anyone does not believe and say that Augustine is holy and blessed, let him be anathema." — Saint Gennadius Scholarius "εἴ τις μὴ φρονεῖ καὶ λέγει τὸν Αὐγουστῖνον ἅγιον καὶ μακάριον εἶναι, ἀνάθεμα." (Œuvres Complètes, Vol. III, p. 59)
Elijah Yasi: "Why did the bishops in Chalcedon feel they needed to judge Theodoret if Leo had already reinstated him?" Fr. Richard Price: "They didn't recognize Roman jurisdiction" 😂
Origen is based and I’m tired of people acting like he isn’t. I don’t always agree with him or his hermeneutic but have greatly benefitted from his OT commentaries.
Even the most praised ultramontane bishops are just Jacobin liberals in the end.
Bishop Robert Barron calls Catholics to 'fight hard' against 'any' state religion, affirms condemned errors By compromising on doctrine on the Church and State, Barron pleases neither Catholics nor liberals. Better to please God and let the chips fall. wmreview.org/p/bishop-rober…