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“I grew up with it” is a bad definition of traditional.

@BKevinBrown 73 §§ and 73 chapters in the Rule of st. Benedict. in this hot take I will demonstrate …

@JonathanRHeaps I also!

I have two of those azure heavens character strings in case anyone is interested.

@DaleLoepp @tonyannett Or goodreads.com/book/show/2074… (Which isn’t generous to pre-reformation stuff. But is very detailed in the reformation stuff.)

@tonyannett That’s a really inaccurate generalization. You might want to read “Lutheranism and the Nordic Spirit of Social Democracy.”

Christianity has always believed that God is especially close to the poor and that the rich are supposed to use their wealth to relieve the poor. This changed with the reformation, when the poor were seen as personally responsible for their predicament. This reached its apogee with John Locke’s defense of workhouses for 3 years olds.

@glennbutner You might want Tanner if you’re looking for conciliar docs amazon.com/Decrees-Ecumen…

It's annoying that standard compilations of creeds like Denzinger and Schaff don't include the canons from the same councils.

I have some Bluesky codes should any of my mutual be interested

Alas: none of those skills. But I’d gladly collaborate with someone on one. Or -just as happily- buy one that someone worked out. And become its biggest evangelist.

Every semester I think: if I had the coding skills, I’d develop a syllabus program that let you build classes, move stuff around easily and output something beautiful in a template to your current semester schedule. And it probably would make some money.

@JonathanRHeaps Strong *Universal Latin Mass in Canticle for Lebowitz* vibes there

All that vision and The Fifth Element fails to imagine future New Yorkers have transcended the incandescent light bulb.

Responding to @catholickungfu's NOTHING GAINED IS ETERNAL, Kevin Hughes ponders the meaning of Henri de Lubac's phrase, "Christianity is never triumphant," in relation to Carpenter's achievement. @Fortresspress @SLU_Theology buff.ly/44Unv2g

@JonathanRHeaps @DLind @janecoaston Only the former Northwest Territories are “Midwest”. The rest are maybe Great Plains

I met @DLind & @janecoaston at SXSW one year and the first question I asked them both was “is Ohio ‘the Midwest’ or not?”

@bilbosfootcomb Will do!

@CattleKnecht Thank you, as always for informing me! I’ll search for the article but if you have it absolutely send it on I’d love to read it. I had no idea and that’s very encouraging news- if there are cases where non-Catholics can validly and sinlessly receive i am 100% for it

I truly don’t understand why someone who isn’t Catholic or Orthodox would even want to receive a Catholic Eucharist. If it’s not what it purports to be you are just eating a bland wafer. If it is you have just gravely sinned against it. Lose lose situation.

@bilbosfootcomb And there’s a little piece by Rahner on the theological principles at stake that’s included as part of the little volume I translated last year.

@bilbosfootcomb *The* book on the canonical development is by Miriam Wijlens. There’s a helpful, though older, article by Kevin Seasoltz, OSB

@bilbosfootcomb And since there are situations in which it’s acceptable, and one of our conditions is professed need, then we have already said from our side that those reasons matter

@CattleKnecht My experience with Protestant friends is that they either genuinely didn’t know or aren’t too pressed about what the Catholics have to say

@bilbosfootcomb Right. But your question is why would they want to. Which is different than the Catholic Church’s position on them doing so

@bilbosfootcomb And in this case, probably several, since you’re likely to get very different answers from different types of non-Catholic Christians

@bilbosfootcomb You know, a basic ecumenical principle in situations like this is to find someone whom you trust, and ask them.

@glennbutner 5) the people who tend to write such books have been in positions since 1990 and don’t entirely believe things after 2000 matter? Maybe wrong? But a hunch

2) Many 21st century debates are rooted in debates about 20th century figures (e.g. Barth) 3) 20th century surveys were very Eurocentric; with the explosion of global Christianity, this doesn't work any more (it shouldn't have then), but no one knows enough to edit such a volume

I've noted that most texts covering "contemporary Christian thought" actually mostly cover 20th century movements. My hypotheses on why there aren't 21st century texts: 1) Increasing methodological fragmentation means there are too many perspectives to cover.