Brilliant description of our loss of meaning. First God gave us a conscience and we failed the test. Then He gave us the law. And we failed. Then He gave us his son. And yet again we are failing, proving, perhaps, that Ha Satan is indeed in charge of the world. Our job is to carry the truth forward, which inherently provides meaning. Re Aquinas (the greatest medieval thinker?): I don’t want to start anything but perhaps the Italians better understand God and man. I think it was Aquinas who said we chose creation over the creator.
The flesh can have power over the soul but must go through the spirit. Why? Because the spirit is the intellect of the soul. The soul only feels. Your intellect is the governor who chooses what the soul will do.
"What might we make if we brought back the long-rejected medieval idea that — wait for it — life actually means something more than itself?"
What indeed, if we coupled our vast scientific knowledge with our classical understanding of spiritual meaning and the human soul? If we at last caught up philosophically, artistically, culturally, morally, and theologically with our our vastly outpaced inventiveness in science and physics, what might we wring?
Brilliant description of our loss of meaning. First God gave us a conscience and we failed the test. Then He gave us the law. And we failed. Then He gave us his son. And yet again we are failing, proving, perhaps, that Ha Satan is indeed in charge of the world. Our job is to carry the truth forward, which inherently provides meaning. Re Aquinas (the greatest medieval thinker?): I don’t want to start anything but perhaps the Italians better understand God and man. I think it was Aquinas who said we chose creation over the creator.
Allegorical.... Yeah, but better yet, the symbolic. And best, the Christological. LOTR over Pilgrim's Progress.
The flesh can have power over the soul but must go through the spirit. Why? Because the spirit is the intellect of the soul. The soul only feels. Your intellect is the governor who chooses what the soul will do.
Is there link to the livestream. I've missed it.
If you find out, do let me know, as I, too, missed it.
I missed it too.😞
I second this motion
Same!
"What might we make if we brought back the long-rejected medieval idea that — wait for it — life actually means something more than itself?"
What indeed, if we coupled our vast scientific knowledge with our classical understanding of spiritual meaning and the human soul? If we at last caught up philosophically, artistically, culturally, morally, and theologically with our our vastly outpaced inventiveness in science and physics, what might we wring?
...I think we're going to need better schools...
Ah! Reason. We need reason with purpose and meaning.
Oh great…Now I have to start reading Aquinas!