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Monastery of St. Finnian the Leper, Innisfallen, Kilarney

Monastery of Saint Kevin of Ireland, Glendalough

Croagh Patrick, County Mayo, Ireland, where St. Patrick lived and prayed for 40 days in the 5th century.

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If I want to read about the lives of the saints but I don’t want to be overwhelmed by a book as thick as the earth is round, which book can I start with? I don’t like reading on a screen so please no online links. I need physical books.

"The fundamental idea of the ancient Near Eastern worldview is the doctrine of the correspondence between heaven and earth. Everything that exists on earth has its archetype and prototype in heaven. Every earthly being and event is prefigured in a heavenly being and event. In this scheme, everything that exists and occurs in heaven is primary in relation to the earthly. Every land, every river, every city, every temple — indeed the whole earth — has its prototype in heaven. The earthly things have been fashioned by human beings or by the gods in imitation of this heavenly archetype." Hans Bietenhard, Die Himmlische Welt im Urchristentum und Spätjudentum (1951), p. 13

@Alyunan00 The Carolingians were far more Byzantine than they cared to admit. Even the 8 tones of Gregorian chant parallel the Byzantine octaechos.

Well, well, well... Byzantium through Western Eyes, Chris Wickham, in Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive?, ed. Leslie Brubaker, 1996

@GarrettPetersen Yep

Kind of amazing that the Greeks lived in Ionia from ~1000 BC to 1922 AD and it never really comes up.

“Ceolfrith, self-styled in his dedication page as ‘abbot from the ends of the earth’, intended the Amiatinus Bible to proclaim to Rome his people’s contribution to the apostolic mission, worthy of the Church Fathers.” Michelle P. Brown, on the Codex Amiatinus

@AuthorGFAllen CS Lewis

For people who read A LOT: which writer do you think is unbelievably good with words?

@LuxPatrum @cmnelson71 @NadyaWilliams81 We did a podcast last year on it that turned out quite well: open.spotify.com/episode/4fmcVS…

@cmnelson71 @NadyaWilliams81 Sounds like a question for @ScriptoriumP!

This sounds like a @cmnelson71 question!

@fatherthomasbjj Quite a brick too!

@ScriptoriumP I found my copy in a used bookstore 🙏🏽

A brilliant diachronic investigation of the Greek language, still holds up after over a century.

@BayouHuguenot We did one last year, actually defending the authenticity of the Corpus: open.spotify.com/episode/4fmcVS…

Any good audio lectures on Pseudo Dionysius? Even scholarly podcasts

@BlakeSNeff An absolute nightmare.

Gut feeling: This would be the most societally disruptive technological development of the century if it happens. -A lot of people will prefer to skip pregnancy entirely for obvious reasons. In will make in vitro children that much easier, of course, but Eespecially if the tech is there to remove an embryo from a woman safely, I think this would pretty quickly becoming the default. There will be lots of trad moral arguments against it, but 1. The lifestyle upsides are too obvious, and 2. Basically any woman with the slightest health risk from a pregnancy will prefer this (and I suspect avoiding health risks will be a way many conservative religious people reconcile themselves to this). -I don't know if this would raise the median birthrate too much, but behavior by outliers could be really wild. There are already billionaires paying dozens of surrogates for an army of kids, now imagine not even needing the surrogates. Billionaires could go from dozens to thousands of kids, ideological extremists could produce a bunch of kids to match a demographic preference, etc. -There may well be a government (China? SK?) that decides to solve fertility decline by just manufacturing kids. If this becomes common it could seriously break the default assumption of a person *having* a family. -This will, I think, put the lie to a lot of the more common arguments in favor of abortion, because I think people will 100% demand the right to "abort" a robowomb pregnancy. I would love to be wrong, but I think it might even increase support for abortion by making babies more abstract and "unreal" until they are actually born.

@PunishedEwiger It's still debated; I've seen all three proposed. To me it looks mostly like Doric with some unique features.

@ScriptoriumP should we class Macedonian as Doric or a discrete Northwest Greek or its own dialect?

@Whitneyed2 @Athanasius_45 It's not a dative, it's an Aeolic accusative plural.

@Athanasius_45 Why would "hurl away" take the dative? Or "make"?

While we’re on the topic, there’s also August Fick’s reconstruction attempt of the Iliad: x.com/Athanasius_45/…

@pymandersghost Parallels the Mary-Virgin fault-line.

The real divide in Christianity is between those who predominantly refer to "Jesus" and those who prefer to use "Christ". Totally different religions.

@_CLancellotti Lol

There was an award ceremony for successful researchers at my university. For some reason most awardees were women, until a guy was called onto the stage and turned out to be an Italian named Andrea. Inquiring minds want to know: was that a mistake?

@Scholarius1 Lazy scholarship. We need to move past these puerile opinions.

Priest John Romanides, btw, explicitly denied that Tome of St. Leo is a definition of faith. Seems we lack phronema to understand it... “Leo' s Tome was never accepted as a definition of faith. Cyril's Twelve Chapters are definitions of faith”. romanity.org/htm/rom.08.en.…

@Athanasius_45 The best.

Not to mention the Book of John in Homeric Greek by Nonnus: x.com/litteraechrist…