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Seriously if I hear someone say 50 Shades of Grey is a good book I'm going to strangle them.
Quote from: orthonorm on June 09, 2012, 05:49:39 PMQuote from: Gebre Menfes Kidus on June 09, 2012, 05:26:07 PMQuote from: orthonorm on June 09, 2012, 05:11:20 PMQuote from: Asteriktos on June 09, 2012, 01:21:36 PMA History of God: The 4,000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, by Karen ArmstrongSave yourself the time. Guess when you have plenty though, what does it matter?She is terrible. She is not an Orthodox Christian, and she is certainly way too ecumenical and too liberal for my tastes. However, if you know this going in then you can still gain a lot from her. She is very knowledgable about religion and she is an excellent writer in my opinion. SelamI read a book of hers while waiting for a woman to get ready to go out, before I cared about Orthodoxy Christianity or being involved in anything "religious". While offering much laughter, it was terribly written.It was a helpful exercise, as I was able to quickly gauge the woman's intellectual capacity and propensity to the worst sorta liberalism, when she explained to me how interesting and "informative" the text was and how she came to better understand "religious people" especially Christians.The problem is not the ecumenicism. Aside from the writing, she belongs in the heap of trash of x studies, in this case religious studies, which doesn't properly understand its own history of thought, necessarily "Western", then attempts to reduce everything else in the world to its own uncritical understanding of its own metaphysics.No thanks.[/rant]But as they say:Which actually is just another installment in the patronizing toward the Black Man long series of tales of Whitey Knows Best.Like I said, I've only read two of her books. One on Islam and the other was her autobiogrpahy "The Spiral Staircase." I found her writing highly readable and very informative. But then again, I am a simple man who likes to understand what I read the first time without having to read the same paragraph again and again to discern it's meaning (like I had to do with your post above. )Selam
Quote from: Gebre Menfes Kidus on June 09, 2012, 05:26:07 PMQuote from: orthonorm on June 09, 2012, 05:11:20 PMQuote from: Asteriktos on June 09, 2012, 01:21:36 PMA History of God: The 4,000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, by Karen ArmstrongSave yourself the time. Guess when you have plenty though, what does it matter?She is terrible. She is not an Orthodox Christian, and she is certainly way too ecumenical and too liberal for my tastes. However, if you know this going in then you can still gain a lot from her. She is very knowledgable about religion and she is an excellent writer in my opinion. SelamI read a book of hers while waiting for a woman to get ready to go out, before I cared about Orthodoxy Christianity or being involved in anything "religious". While offering much laughter, it was terribly written.It was a helpful exercise, as I was able to quickly gauge the woman's intellectual capacity and propensity to the worst sorta liberalism, when she explained to me how interesting and "informative" the text was and how she came to better understand "religious people" especially Christians.The problem is not the ecumenicism. Aside from the writing, she belongs in the heap of trash of x studies, in this case religious studies, which doesn't properly understand its own history of thought, necessarily "Western", then attempts to reduce everything else in the world to its own uncritical understanding of its own metaphysics.No thanks.[/rant]But as they say:Which actually is just another installment in the patronizing toward the Black Man long series of tales of Whitey Knows Best.
Quote from: orthonorm on June 09, 2012, 05:11:20 PMQuote from: Asteriktos on June 09, 2012, 01:21:36 PMA History of God: The 4,000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, by Karen ArmstrongSave yourself the time. Guess when you have plenty though, what does it matter?She is terrible. She is not an Orthodox Christian, and she is certainly way too ecumenical and too liberal for my tastes. However, if you know this going in then you can still gain a lot from her. She is very knowledgable about religion and she is an excellent writer in my opinion. Selam
Quote from: Asteriktos on June 09, 2012, 01:21:36 PMA History of God: The 4,000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, by Karen ArmstrongSave yourself the time. Guess when you have plenty though, what does it matter?She is terrible.
A History of God: The 4,000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, by Karen Armstrong
Jaroslav Pelikan examines the biblical portrait of Mary, analyzing both the New and Old Testaments to see how the bits of information provided about her were expanded into a full-blown doctrine. He explores the view of Mary in late antiquity, where the differences between Mary, the mother of Christ, and Eve, the "mother of all living," provided positive and negative symbols of women. He discusses how the Eastern church commemorated Mary and how she was portrayed in the Holy Qur'an of Islam. He explains how the paradox of Mary as Virgin Mother shaped the paradoxical Catholic view of sexuality and how Reformation rejection of the worship of Mary allowed her to be a model of faith for Protestants. He considers also her role in political and social history. He analyzes the place of Mary in literature—from Dante, Spenser, and Milton to Wordsworth, George Eliot, and Goethe—as well as in music and art, and he describes the miraculous apparitions of Mary that have been experienced by the common people.
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I finally decided to read The Hobbit
If you could describe Ayn Rand and Objectivism, what would it be?
Quote from: Achronos on June 12, 2012, 07:04:41 AMIf you could describe Ayn Rand and Objectivism, what would it be?Satanism without the Satan stuff.
If anything I have posted has been illuminating, please remember that I merely reflect the light of others...but also it's me.
Quote from: Asteriktos on June 12, 2012, 10:50:02 AMQuote from: Achronos on June 12, 2012, 07:04:41 AMIf you could describe Ayn Rand and Objectivism, what would it be?Satanism without the Satan stuff.I was going to say 21st century West European politics, but this works.
Quote from: Asteriktos on June 12, 2012, 10:50:02 AMQuote from: Achronos on June 12, 2012, 07:04:41 AMIf you could describe Ayn Rand and Objectivism, what would it be?Satanism without the Satan stuff.That's better than what I was going to go with, which is, "The asshole you hate the most in this story is supposed to be the one to which you look up."
Quote from: Agabus on June 12, 2012, 01:21:27 PMQuote from: Asteriktos on June 12, 2012, 10:50:02 AMQuote from: Achronos on June 12, 2012, 07:04:41 AMIf you could describe Ayn Rand and Objectivism, what would it be?Satanism without the Satan stuff.That's better than what I was going to go with, which is, "The asshole you hate the most in this story is supposed to be the one to which you look up." Nice
Quote from: orthonorm on June 12, 2012, 01:48:10 PMQuote from: Agabus on June 12, 2012, 01:21:27 PMQuote from: Asteriktos on June 12, 2012, 10:50:02 AMQuote from: Achronos on June 12, 2012, 07:04:41 AMIf you could describe Ayn Rand and Objectivism, what would it be?Satanism without the Satan stuff.That's better than what I was going to go with, which is, "The asshole you hate the most in this story is supposed to be the one to which you look up." NiceI do not know her entire philosophy other than that she seems basically a free market economist and and an atheist.
Quote from: recent convert on June 13, 2012, 07:11:00 AMQuote from: orthonorm on June 12, 2012, 01:48:10 PMQuote from: Agabus on June 12, 2012, 01:21:27 PMQuote from: Asteriktos on June 12, 2012, 10:50:02 AMQuote from: Achronos on June 12, 2012, 07:04:41 AMIf you could describe Ayn Rand and Objectivism, what would it be?Satanism without the Satan stuff.That's better than what I was going to go with, which is, "The asshole you hate the most in this story is supposed to be the one to which you look up." NiceI do not know her entire philosophy other than that she seems basically a free market economist and and an atheist. This is hardly the top of the iceberg, but:"My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue.What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue."[From “Playboy’s 1964 interview with Ayn Rand”]
Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn— whatever they had been, they were men!
I hope that issue didn't come with an Ayn Rand centerfold
Quote from: Iconodule on June 14, 2012, 10:28:18 AMI hope that issue didn't come with an Ayn Rand centerfoldIf so, it should be given to all young males within the Church to mount near their beds.It would substantially decrease the frequency of "self harm" threads on oc.net.
I am also reading this, because as a convert I am obligated to read Pelikan:
Quote from: Agabus on June 11, 2012, 01:59:23 PMI am also reading this, because as a convert I am obligated to read Pelikan:Just because you're a convert does not oblige you to read the books of other converts. Don't get me wrong: I like Pelikan's History of Doctrine series, but I don't read him because he's a convert like me.
And, at the risk of sounding parochial, most books written from the convert perspective, I really cannot stand, especially Frederica Matthewes Greene and Clark Carlton to name a few.
Also, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Soccer by D.W. Crisfield
The breath of Thine Holy Spirit inspires artists, poets and scientists. The power of Thy supreme knowledge makes them prophets and interpreters of Thy laws, who reveal the depths of Thy creative wisdom. Their works speak unwittingly of Thee. How great art Thou in Thy creation! How great art Thou in man!
The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of The Lord's Prayer, by John Dominic Crossan