12 Propositions…#10-12
January 14, 2010
I promise that I didn’t forget about the last three. But everybody started posting stuff and I didn’t want to overwhelm all you readers. So here are the final three Propositions, mostly more reflections on the Christian calendar, which I have been meditating on a lot lately.
#10) Advent and Pentecost are both perpetual seasons that in some form or another can and should frame or inform our celebrations and fasts for the other seasons.
#11) The Calendar is a living Catechism both on the text of the Gospels and on the Christian life
#12) Sufjan Stevens is the second greatest artist of the last decade and a paradigm shifter on how music will be made and performed in the future
12 Propositions…#9
January 2, 2010
Christology developed the way it did as a phenomenology of Salvation.
12 Propositions…#8
January 1, 2010
The Seasons of Advent and Christmas are different, they have different emphasis, one is penitential the other a feast. Hymns, Readings, Collects, Antiphons etc… should reflect this.
12 Propositions…#7
December 31, 2009
Radiohead is the band of the decade. - What, you didn’t think they were all going to be spiritual did you?
12 Propositions…#6
December 30, 2009
If Isaiah 7.14 is speaking about Jesus (and it is), then Plato, in Book II, discussing the end of “The Just Man” is also speaking about Jesus.
“The ‘Just Man’ will have to endure the lash, the rack, chains, the branding-iron in his eyes, and finally, after every extremity of suffering, he will be crucified…” – Plato, Republic bk.II.362
12 Propositions…#5
December 29, 2009
God’s own ‘condescention’ in humble child is a window into his own Lordship just as plain as his washing the Disciple’s feet as seen by the contrast between him and Herod
12 Propositions…#4
December 28, 2009
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