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"Before the beautiful-no, not really before but within the beautiful-the whole person quivers. He not only 'finds' the beautiful moving; rather, he experiences himself as being moved and possessed by it."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery o'Connor
"Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds, stewards of the new day that is dawning."
- NT Wright
"When we think our brother or sister has sinned against us, such an affront is not just against us but against the whole community. A community established as peaceful cannot afford to let us relish our sense of being wronged without exposing that wrong in the hopes of reconciliation."
- Stan Hauerwas
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- Thomas Merton
"All the believers were of one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possesions was their own, but they shared everything that they had."
- Acts of the Apostles
"For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself."
- St. Augustine
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The Eucharist of the Early Christians
The Collected Short Stories, Flannery o'Connor
The Kingdom of God is Within You, Tolstoy
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Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II
God is Near Us, Pope Benedict XVI
Heretics/Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton
Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barret Browning
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7 Comments:
I read a book about John Winthrop this summer. It was decent, better than the history of Catholicism in america (the whole thing is about immagration).
There's a book out there about the Puritan family, but I can't seem to remember the name of it. If your paper is not due for a while, I'll go Monday and see if I can find it again in the Southern bookstore. Hope they have it all the way out there.
"Godless dissidents," eh? ;-)
I liked Edmund S. Morgan's book on John Winthrop.
And you know what I think of calvinists...
Robbie: Yah, that crap's a little boring... ;)
Neweell: Hehe... yah. It's due a bit later but I am going to try to write it ASAP. I have three more papers due on them though. My text is actually of family ethics in Puritan circles.
Kyle: Winthrop was Hitler.
Everyone: I am right. You are wrong.
:)
(Obviously to be taken in humor...)
I'm something of a Puritan fan -- for a different read on the Puritans check out Leland Ryken's Redeeming the Time all about their theology of Liesure (yes, liesure -- the caricature given us by Arthur Miller isn't exactly accurate)
Russell
Your lack of respect in this post is disturbing Mike. You shame yourself with such ignorance.
I was meant to be humorous. But I don't have respect for them in any way. I can't.
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