May 1, 2020
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Laodicea
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May 1, 2020 at 8:25 am
Can you provide some footnotes?
May 1, 2020 at 9:29 am
I’ve added links.
May 1, 2020 at 2:04 pm
Oh I see. Is there any reason for assigning a particular regalium to a particular reformer?
May 1, 2020 at 8:58 pm
Well the crown is given by the Caliph to a Protestant in order undermine the Habsburgs. The Sword was given by a Deist Protestant to Stalin to thank him for not being quite as horrible (and for being further away than) Hitler and the sphere just looks like punctured reality reduced to mechanism (and defaces the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace).
May 1, 2020 at 3:17 pm
The Lutheran crown of private conscience.
The Rousseauian sword of popular sovereignty.
The Cartesian orb of subjective epistemology.
OK, for all the faults, disasters, and aberrations derived from these three principles, you have to admit that they were an important step in the Christianising of the world, in that they’re attempts to bring out the primacy of the human spirit over classical/pagan cosmic systems which alienated man by imprisoning him in a mythological hierarchy (the Hindu caste system being a particularly egregious example). Protestantism in particular is mostly just the attempt to bring out the importance of one’s personal relationship and commitment to Jesus Christ, after the metastatised clerical and monastic hierarchies had made Christianity too much another objectivised cosmic system to which one passively belonged. In Semi-Hegelian terms, God is disclosing Himself in world history by the dialectical unfolding of these ideas, which are incomplete or one-sided in themselves, but which advance our understanding of divine revelation and natural philosophy, progressively purifying the Church so that she may more and more resemble her Bridegroom. Like Chesterton said, there was a sense in which the French revolutionaries were the theists and the royalists the atheists, because the former were acting on sincerely held principles (however partial and misconceived) whereas the latter were appealing mostly to status quo. It’s one of the weaknesses of Traditional Catholicism that it tends to confuse particular historical incarnations of Christianity (e.g. the medieval) with the eternal Platonic type; there’s also an excessive pessimism about the upheavals of the modern world and the losses resulting from them, whereas our faith ought to lead us to believe that God has permitted these losses in order to make later a greater gain. For example, the dominant post-Reformation Calvinist and Jansenist depiction of God as an arbitrary judge and sovereign tyrant caused a reaction in modernity towards lax sentimental belief or disgruntled atheism; but as damaging as this has been, it may only be a dialectical step towards a deeper understanding of God as Love.
May 1, 2020 at 9:00 pm
The ark of God has hidden strength;
Who reverence or profane,
They, or their seed, shall find at length
The penalty or gain.
While as a sojourner it sought
Of old its destined place,
A blessing on the home it brought
Of one who did it grace.
But there was one, outstripping all
The holy-vestured band,
Who laid on it, to save its fall,
A rude corrective hand.
Read, who the Church would cleanse, and mark
How stern the warning runs;
There are two ways to aid her ark—
As patrons, and as sons.
http://www.newmanreader.org/works/verses/verse108.html
May 2, 2020 at 7:14 am
Very true. The Church reveals hearts, bringing out the best and the worst in us. That’s practically her purpose in history. I agree that we shouldn’t presume to correct the Church as if she were a human thing which belonged to us. That certainly is the way of the false reformers. You have to pay attention though and listen to know which reformers are speaking sincerely as sons and which as “patrons”. Contra ultramontanism, it’s not simply whatever aligns with the opinion of the Vatican.