Common sense of the rural people. I grew up in the country. Nature always fascinated me. My mother had her first three children baptized in the Catholic Church as infants. Therefore, like Hannah giving Samuel to the service of God, my mother wished that for all three of us. I have two other siblings, but I am the only one practicing my faith.
On June 11th I will have been a practicing Catholic for 2 years. My formation in the Church was mostly in the First Assembly of God Church and the Baptist Church. I was introduced to liturgy only in 2015 at an evangelical-episcopal church in Jenks, OK. Listening to the Daily Wire and Michael Knowles I heard about the Latin Mass controversy and watched 2 documentaries on it. In one of the documentaries a Latin Mass was shown and the Holy Spirit touched me even though I didn't understand Latin. It made me weep, so I knew it was of God via the Holy Spirit.
I attended the University of Oklahoma from 1983-1987 in Microbiology, 10 hours short of a B.S., but I did graduate from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 1991 and trained for 22 months in General Surgery at KUMC.
Higher education never affected my faith negatively because I was reared in a rural setting and never lost my awe and wonder if the created world. Everything and most everyone has disappointed me in this life. But in spite of all the pain and suffering I have endured, Jesus and the Holy Spirit never abandoned me. The unseen world is more real to me than the seen.
When I became a prodigal for a few years from age 28-43 I always ran back to the Church and the love of Christ because the darkness and evil of this world scared me severely.
To me, the Catholic Church has the whole story, but is in need of reform because Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism has definitely crept into the Church I used to attend. Jesus has never failed me and my higher education never decreased my faith. It actually increased my faith in God.
Just look at creation, it screams of a loving Creator.
Reminds me a lot of a bit from Dostoyevsky's "Notes from Underground:" "In short, one may say anything about the history of the world--anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. The very word sticks in one's throat." Rationality fails in its account of something as irrational and disordered as human beings, which is a great thing!
You raised the issue of “modern science-worshipping would-be despots” who “want to bring the whole world under one system of order and measurement, one perfectly calibrated language of numbers, time, and space that will lock the world into an unchanging order they can control.”
I think The Master and His Emissary is the greatest “science” book ever written. It is like a technical version of The Truth and Beauty. A ‘show your working’ version for those of us with an engineering brain.
I think the catch is that right-left brain theorizing has been disproved. Or recent scientific studies (!) suggest so. A 2013 study showed that both hemispheres share many tasks.
Is it? Hmm. Perhaps I misunderstood Rod Dreher's calling on Gilchrist's book to prove that we need more left-brain creative thinking, then. For that is what he does in his latest work (both quotes IG's book and argues for left-brain-based Christianity).
Gilchrist explains how the two hemispheres are in constant dialogue with each other. He goes the length of recorded history showing which hemisphere was dominant at the time. It’s a very dense book but fascinating nonetheless. I highly recommend it.
Common sense of the rural people. I grew up in the country. Nature always fascinated me. My mother had her first three children baptized in the Catholic Church as infants. Therefore, like Hannah giving Samuel to the service of God, my mother wished that for all three of us. I have two other siblings, but I am the only one practicing my faith.
On June 11th I will have been a practicing Catholic for 2 years. My formation in the Church was mostly in the First Assembly of God Church and the Baptist Church. I was introduced to liturgy only in 2015 at an evangelical-episcopal church in Jenks, OK. Listening to the Daily Wire and Michael Knowles I heard about the Latin Mass controversy and watched 2 documentaries on it. In one of the documentaries a Latin Mass was shown and the Holy Spirit touched me even though I didn't understand Latin. It made me weep, so I knew it was of God via the Holy Spirit.
I attended the University of Oklahoma from 1983-1987 in Microbiology, 10 hours short of a B.S., but I did graduate from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 1991 and trained for 22 months in General Surgery at KUMC.
Higher education never affected my faith negatively because I was reared in a rural setting and never lost my awe and wonder if the created world. Everything and most everyone has disappointed me in this life. But in spite of all the pain and suffering I have endured, Jesus and the Holy Spirit never abandoned me. The unseen world is more real to me than the seen.
When I became a prodigal for a few years from age 28-43 I always ran back to the Church and the love of Christ because the darkness and evil of this world scared me severely.
To me, the Catholic Church has the whole story, but is in need of reform because Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism has definitely crept into the Church I used to attend. Jesus has never failed me and my higher education never decreased my faith. It actually increased my faith in God.
Just look at creation, it screams of a loving Creator.
"On June 11th I will have been a practicing Catholic for 2 years."
So when do you stop Practicing and start doing it?
/Snarky comment.
“We have now sunk to such a depth that the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” - George Orwell
Reminds me a lot of a bit from Dostoyevsky's "Notes from Underground:" "In short, one may say anything about the history of the world--anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. The very word sticks in one's throat." Rationality fails in its account of something as irrational and disordered as human beings, which is a great thing!
"Wisdom cries..." Stephen Meyer calls it The Return of the God Hypothesis.
Science can tell us HOW, but not WHY.
You raised the issue of “modern science-worshipping would-be despots” who “want to bring the whole world under one system of order and measurement, one perfectly calibrated language of numbers, time, and space that will lock the world into an unchanging order they can control.”
Can We Say Star Trek?
Star Trek Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQYbKT_rMg
Sounds like common sense to me! Again, our beloved pope Trump is correct! Cue your happiness montage!
Unfortunately, the learned aren’t interested in what the fool plainly see.
We should then be praying for a nation (and world) of Holy Fools.
I think The Master and His Emissary is the greatest “science” book ever written. It is like a technical version of The Truth and Beauty. A ‘show your working’ version for those of us with an engineering brain.
It’s the Bell Curve meme
I think the catch is that right-left brain theorizing has been disproved. Or recent scientific studies (!) suggest so. A 2013 study showed that both hemispheres share many tasks.
That is exactly what Gilchrist’s book is about.
Is it? Hmm. Perhaps I misunderstood Rod Dreher's calling on Gilchrist's book to prove that we need more left-brain creative thinking, then. For that is what he does in his latest work (both quotes IG's book and argues for left-brain-based Christianity).
Gilchrist explains how the two hemispheres are in constant dialogue with each other. He goes the length of recorded history showing which hemisphere was dominant at the time. It’s a very dense book but fascinating nonetheless. I highly recommend it.