Blake

Classical musician 🥁✝️

[Blake @_balakay_]

OTD in 1908, Catholic composer, Olivier Messiaen, was born. His life story is movie worthy. He was an ornithologist, a quasi-theologian, a POW during WWII, and invented a unique branch of music theory taught in most conservatories today.

Short thread on my favorite composer 🧵

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@latinizedlogos I def agree that the Oppenheimer score was stellar, but I was not moved by the music at all during The Odyssey. The percussive sections were uninteresting, and (perhaps intentionally) many melodies were vanilla and conventional. Maybe “bad” is harsh; perhaps just not his best…

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@metathomist I’ve only read Pope’s, and I am often told that that means I didn’t read The Odyssey.

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@UntoldFortune This is a point I often illustrate (lifted from Origen, of course): is it better to be healed from a physical withered hand, or to be healed from avarice and acquisitiveness? Is it better to call forth physical rain, or to nourish one’s soul with the teaching of Christ?

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@latinizedlogos Meister Eckhart’s interpretation of the eagle prophecy in Ezekiel would make Origen blush.

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@OrthodoxOrigen The Not-other is not other than the Not-other vibes

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https://t.co/ts9qQ7g3QI

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@Elijah_Moree @poperespecter1 Even Mike Heiser says following Jerome’s logic regarding canon is a slippery slope for Protestants, and they should abandon that argument. We also have Hebrew and Aramaic manuscript fragments of Tobit and Sirach.

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@Elijah_Moree @poperespecter1 Jerome subscribed to the “Hebrew truth” notion that for a work to be considered canonical, it must have a Hebrew manuscript tradition. He was unaware of 1 Maccabees being originally composed in Hebrew, which today is beyond doubt.

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Meister Eckhart, “The Book of Divine Consolation”

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David Bentley Hart, “You Are Gods”
page 34

(Nicholas is referring to Cusanus)

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@HellenicVibes Erasmus felt the same about Origen, and I have to agree with both you and him.

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There was an answer on Jeopardy tonight,

Category: TV Shows by Characters

“Uncle Junior, Johnny Sack, Richie Aprile”

No one got it correct

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Chubby knows how to sunbathe

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@latinizedlogos That was basically the first line in the first Origen homily I ever read.

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@firstmuslim I was just thinking about how I sang Fez to you in a space years ago and you told me how that was the source of inspiration

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@Theredheadbro1 Smorgasbord

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