RoyStormcrow

Primary interests are Orthodox theology, Biblical Studies, English Literature, Homeschooling, and Ancient Languages

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@JosephBenJ2 Not on X but FB. He blocked me for not playing his game 🤷‍♂️

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@GCarpetPernman @Acolyte83349490 Many people having a standing offer to Erick to remain corrected after he has been unmistakably defeated argumentatively. We think this beats his "offer" to be grist for his influencer mill or give him free palliative care for his chronic amnesia.

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@Acolyte83349490 What's motivating this latinizing trend? I even see Pino doing it: https://t.co/PxndFCQkwb
Identifying Palamas' phrase with Aristotle is incorrect. νοεῖ ὁ νοῦς is a bizarre divine egocentrism--not the Trinity.

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@Acolyte83349490 He is a master among time suckers. I put him in a hold regarding PSA using synecdoche and he just asks you to read his book. This new media of academic work dangerously favors this neurotic behavior. Worse even to see Odox spooftexting satisfaction theory. I reply with Staniloae:

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@barrelagedfaith "A Foretaste or Ambassador" is Ungit. The portion of paganism Lewis means to interact with is that which is "genuine mythopoeia" I think some of this could be carefully reconstructed and applied to icons

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@barrelagedfaith Nice. I think that he expresses an adjacent idea in Till We Have Faces. He view of how certain paganism gestures toward Christianity may include Ungit who is an uncut stone which rose out of the earth--representing deep maternal qualities. He excludes Opening of the Mouth gods.

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@AZiHeron @annielcrawford Agreed. So obvious that one suspects this is some cynical clickbait take. 🙄

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@alfarojoshua3 This man turning his can'ts into cans and his eisegesis into exegesis.

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Saint Dimitru Staniloae on Ecumenists.
“Once the ecumenists came here, to a congress for “ecumenical dialogue”, and one of their representatives supported socialist ideas. I opposed them and kept speaking about Christ. They then asked me: “Why do you keep talking about Christ? Here it’s about something else, not Christ.” They got terribly angry, and after I left, they criticized me very strongly because I was talking about Christ and not about perceived social issues. Why should I still talk with those who have made women priests, who agree with homosexuals?”

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@BretVDB Isn't it brilliant? I like Bush's volume too. There's quite a bit which should inform modern scholarship. He corrects the puff pieces on humanism. The shift in political philosophy is essential to a Christian wishing to pull modernity by the taproot. Puritans cast in good light.

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Farming clicks off of the subversion of a thing of beauty and failing to emotionally register the tragedy of defacement is low priority for the risk calculation of the unprincipled Christian influencer.

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@FrLillie Yes. And on the other hand:

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@friedbr @BretVDB Who doesn't get excited by "Book II. 'Drab'" ? ( Not dyslogistic )

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@BMcGrewvy @annielcrawford So a "world divided between wolves who do not understand, and sheep who cannot defend"

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@annielcrawford I find all of this completely gross and adjacent to the cloying, ragtag, boterismo distortions of Marvel. It's a specific aesthetic reference to Marvel's "Eternity"-- a member of an ugly slapdash pantheon. I could not happily analyze this stuff for clicks. Back to Pauline Baynes!

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@truegodsattend Two Lewis quotes. One spherical, luminous idea.

"An influence which cannot evade our consciousness will not go very deep."

"A real transfusion of spirit involves intangibles: to study it is to study things that can only be known by long and sympathetic reading of originals."

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@DanielAJones93 I agree in some ways. Christians ought to return back to pre-16th century natural law:

The Amish was the largest group to gesture toward this when they refused social security and public school.

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@DanielAJones93 I think this only traces back to heresies like Calvinism which share responsibility for creating the statists and those who follow them. Douglas Bush: