Divine love is not an alternative to human love but rather is the only hope for human love
- the geologian (march 2010)
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the occasional rantings and bantering of a poet-cum-philosopher-cum-musician-cum-theologian-cum-traveller in time and space...in short... an epistemological nomad...with a guitar
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hey what a surprise!
i didn't really expect to see anything
when i clicked over here
thanks
the geologian
my darling Clement of Alexandria
He holds some of the secrets of
early church (and those nasty pagan/eastern influences).
thanks for the contribution J
early christianity was keen to recognize the intellectual and aesthetic developments of all peoples...strains of heretical thinking are part and parcel to the faith..we're still basically an arian culture...blind to the legacy of insight into our divine nature
hey sally
;-)
jh
I'm not an expert in the early church fathers but find Clement's writing (the "Stromata") somewhat interesting because of his....ecumenicalism in a sense--he's a Christian but writing before everything was systematized (and given his dates Clement must have known people who knew the apostles, and so forth--). He doesn't just reject the greek philosophers, or the best of the old testament, and even refers to...eastern wisdom at times (some of Clement's writings suggest that hindu and buddhist scholars were in Alexandria at the time). Clement sounds slightly progressive, ...tho' I imagine some hard-line domincan bros. Aristotelian types consider him a bit...eccentric.
Hola Ms sally. Interesting insight.
Your patience with the Olsonator's somewhat impressive, or interesting.
He sounds about like a Jerry Falwell who made it through an American lit. course, where he fell in the love with Battle Hymn of the Republic. And note his usual grand proclamations about...everything--literature, the Tyndall bible, catholic church, politics, Darwin, his cliffsnotes philosophastry etc (tho' me latin's not great , a Tyndall bonfire was probably correctio). really KO (and S-man) provides mo' evidence of...the errors of belle-lettres, at least of the WASP sort.
pride the never failing vice of foo's
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