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Prior to *Divino afflante Spiritu* the Latin Vulgate had served as the textual basis for Catholic translations of the Bible; this new directive from the pope inaugurated the modern era of Catholic biblical scholarship. + +The French Dominicans at the École Biblique in Jerusalem answered the call, publishing a French translation of the Bible---*La Bible de Jérusalem*---in 1956.[^1] In addition to the text itself, *La Bible de Jérusalem* offered scholarly introductions to each book & extensive notes to the text. Ten years later an English translation---the Jerusalem Bible---appeared. More a translation of the French text of *La Bible de Jérusalem* than the Hebrew & Greek, the primary contribution of the Jerusalem Bible was to make available French biblical scholarship to an English readership. Still, as the first complete translation of the Bible into modern English, the Jerusalem Bible was received eagerly among English-speaking Catholics (& even some Protestants). + +Still, advances in biblical scholarship & a need for a proper translation of the Hebrew & Greek texts called for an update to the Jerusalem Bible. In 1985 the New Jerusalem Bible appeared, translating directly the Hebrew & Greek texts while still taking inspiration from the French edition. + +Then, in the early 2000s, the African bishops asked for a more affordable edition of the Jerusalem Bible, which brought to light the need for another update to the New Jerusalem Bible. The fruit of that update is the Revised New Jerusalem Bible, published recently (2019) by [Darton, Longman & Todd](https://www.dltbibles.com/the-rnjb) under the direction of Henry Wansbrough. The RNJB was produced according to the following three principles: + +1. The text should be translated with an ear more for proclamation aloud than silent reading. +2. The translation should be produced according to a philosophy of formal equivalence rather than dynamic equivalence. +3. The translation should reflect the fact that the biblical message is addressed to women & men alike. + +While I've not spent much time with it, I've recently become very interested in the Jerusalem Bible tradition of biblical translations. Considering this translation came about as a response to *Divino afflante Spiritu* & so originates in a solely Catholic initiative,[^2] the Jerusalem Bible strikes me as a quintessentially Catholic tradition of translation, produced during a period of renewal in Catholic theology.[^3] From what I understand (& in my own limited experience reading translations in this tradition) it enjoys a better reputation for its literary quality than, say, the New Revised Standard Version or the New American Bible (Revised Edition). Could the Revised New Jerusalem Bible be the end of my search for a preferred Bible translation?[^4] + +I began to look more carefully at the RNJB I bought a year or two ago, & I wondered at how its translation compared to the NJB (whose literary quality & theological richness is celebrated). I especially wondered how the shift from the dynamic equivalence of the NJB (meaning-for-meaning) to the formal equivalence (word-for-word) of the RNJB affected the translation. So I decided to compare some passages. + +## Genesis 1:1--3 + +| New Jerusalem Bible | Revised New Jerusalem Bible | +|---|---| +| In the beginning God created heaven & earth. | In the beginning God created heaven & earth. | +| Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters. | Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with the spirit of God sweeping over the waters. | +| God said, 'Let there be light,' & there was light. | God said, 'Let there be light,' & there was light. | + +Very similar. I kind of like the NJB's "a divine wind" over the RNJB's "spirit of God." + +## Exodus 3:7--14 + +| New Jerusalem Bible | Revised New Jerusalem Bible | +|---|---| +| Yahweh then said, 'I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying for help on account of their taskmasters. Yes, I am well aware of their sufferings. | Then the LORD said, 'I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying for help because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, | +| & I have come down to rescue them from the clutches of the Egyptians & bring them up out of that country, to a country rich & broad, to a country flowing with milk & honey, to the home of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites & the Jebusites. | & I have come down to rescue them from the hands of the Egyptians & bring them up out of that land, to a land rich & broad, a land flowing with milk & honey, the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites & the Jebusites. | +| Yes indeed, the Israelites' cry for help has reached me, & I have also seen the cruel way in which the Egyptians are oppressing them. | Now see, the Israelites' cry for help has reached me, & I have also seen the oppression which the Egyptians are inflicting upon them. | +| So now I am sending you to Pharaoh, for you to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.' | So come now, I am sending you to Pharaoh, to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.' | +| Moses said to God, 'Who am I to go to Pharaoh & bring the Israelites out of Egypt?' | Moses said to God, 'Who am I to go to Pharaoh, to bring the Israelites out of Egypt?' | +| 'I shall be with you,' God said, 'and this is the sign by which you will know that I was the one who sent you. After you have led the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.' | God said, 'I shall be with you, & this is the sign by which you will know that it was I who sent you. After you have led the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.' | +| Moses then said to God, 'Look, if I go to the Israelites & say to them, "The God of your ancestors has sent me to you," & they say to me, "What is his name?" what am I to tell them?' | Moses then said to God, 'Look, if I go to the Israelites & say to them, "The God of your ancestors has sent me to you," & they say to me, "What is his name?", what shall I say to them?' | +| God said to Moses, 'I am he who is.' & he said, 'This is what you are to say to the Israelites, "I am has sent me to you."' | God said to Moses, 'I am who I am.' & he said, 'This is what you are to say to the Israelites, "I am has sent me to you."' | + +You can see here the RNJB's "reading aloud" principle in the way it avoids quotations without first introducing the speaker. Again I like some of the NJB's phrases ("from the clutches of the Egyptians"), but the use of "the LORD" for the tetragrammaton is a massive improvement on the part of the RNJB. + +## Matthew 6:9--13 + +| New Jerusalem Bible | Revised New Jerusalem Bible | +|---|---| +| Our Father in heaven, may your name be held holy, | Our Father in heaven, may your name be held holy, | +| your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. | your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. | +| Give us today our daily bread. | Give us today our daily bread. | +| And forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven those who are in debt to us. | And forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors. | +| And do not put us to the test, but save us from the Evil One. | And do not put us to the test, but save us from the Evil One. | + +The Lord's Prayer that I have memorized is, I think, a slightly modernized form of the one appearing in the King James Version ("Our Father, who art in heaven ..."). That language is so familiar to me, I can't help but feel a little uncomfortable reading this one. But I do like the use of "debts" here rather than "trespasses." + +## Luke 1:46--55 + +| New Jerusalem Bible | Revised New Jerusalem Bible | +|---|---| +| 'My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord | 'My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord | +| and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour; | and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour; | +| because he has looked upon the humiliation of his servant. Yes, from now onwards all generations will call me blessed, | since he has looked with favour on the lowliness of his servant. For see, from now on all generations will call me blessed, | +| for the Almighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name, | for the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name, | +| and his faithful love extends age after age to those who fear him. | and his mercy is from generation to generation on those who fear him. | +| He has used the power of his arm, he has routed the arrogant of heart. | He has exerted the power of his arm, he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their heart. | +| He has pulled down princes from their thrones and raised high the lowly. | He has taken down princes from thrones and raised up the lowly. | +| He has filled the starving with good things, sent the rich away empty. | He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty. | +| He has come to the help of Israel his servant, mindful of his faithful love | He has come to the help of Israel his servant, in remembrance of his mercy, | +| ---according to the promise he made to our ancestors---of his mercy to Abraham and to his descendants for ever.' | according to the promise he made to our ancestors, of his mercy to Abraham and his descendants for ever.' | + +Some lines I prefer the NJB ("he has routed the arrogant of heart") & some I prefer the RNJB ("he has looked with favour on the lowliness of his servant"). I wonder what Greek word underlies what the NJB translates as "faithful love" and what the RNJB translates "mercy"? + +## John 1:1--5, 14 + +| New Jerusalem Bible | Revised New Jerusalem Bible | +|---|---| +| In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God. | In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God. | +| He was with God in the beginning. | He was with God in the beginning. | +| Through him all things came into being, not one thing came into being except through him. | Through him all things came into being, not one thing came into being except through him. | +| What has come into being in him was life, life that was the light of men; | What has come into being in him was life, life that was the light of all people; | +| and light shines in darkness, and darkness could not overpower it. | and light shines in darkness, and darkness could not overpower it. | +| The Word became flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that he has from the Father as only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. | The Word became flesh and lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of an only-begotten Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. | + +John's Prologue reads as nearly identical in both translations, with the only substantial difference being the preference for inclusive language ("people" rather than "men") in verse 4. + +## John 3:16 + +| New Jerusalem Bible | Revised New Jerusalem Bible | +|---|---| +|For this is how God loved the world: he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. |For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. | + +I have to say, I don't particularly like how either translations the first half of this verse; I prefer the KJV's "For God so loved the world ...", but that may be because it's familiar (like the Lord's Prayer above) + +## Philippians 2:5--11 + +| New Jerusalem Bible | Revised New Jerusalem Bible | +|---|---| +| Make your own the mind of Christ Jesus: | Let the same mind be in you as was also in Christ Jesus: | +| Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped. | Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped. | +| But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being, | But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, born in human likeness, and found in human shape; | +| he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross. | he humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, death on a cross. | +| And for this God raised him high, and gave him the name which is above all other names; | And therefore God highly exalted him, and granted him the name above every name | +| so that all beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of Jesus | so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend of beings heavenly, earthly, and under the earth, | +| and that every tongue should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father. | and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. | + +Here I think we see more sharply the differences between dynamic & formal equivalence. Compare especially verses 7 and 8. I think the NJB's "But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being, he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross" reads much more nicely than the RNJB's, but I take it the RNJB is closer to the Greek.[^5] + +## Conclusions + +Acknowledging that these comparisons are far from exhaustive, it doesn't seem like the shift from dynamic to formal equivalence has had a huge impact on translation choices, with some relatively small exceptions. With those exceptions in mind I have to say that I tend to prefer the NJB's renderings to the RNJB,[^6] though the inclusive language of the RNJB & the use of "the LORD" for the tetragrammaton are points in favor of the RNJB. + +Is the (R)NJB my new preferred translation? Maybe for now. I'd like to do a more extensive comparison of the (R)NJB to other versions, especially the English Standard Version - Catholic Edition and the Knox Version, before making any final determinations. But that's a project for another day. + +[^1]: These details are drawn largely from Henry Wansbrough's Foreword to the *Revised New Jerusalem Bible: Study Edition* (Image Books, 2019). +[^2]: Many---perhaps even most---modern English translations began as Protestant translations, which were then adapted for Catholic use (e.g., the Catholic edition of the Revised Standard Version). Exceptions might include the Confraternity Bible---which is really an update of the Douay Rheims Bible---& the New American Bible. +[^3]: I have in mind the so-called *nouvelle théologie* / *ressourcement* movement. It makes me wonder if any of the theologians of this movement---Chenu, de Lubac, etc.---ever commented on *La Bible de Jérusalem*/Jerusalem Bible. +[^4]: Someday I might like to write a fuller post on what I'm looking for in an English Bible. I really like the [Knox version](https://catholicbible.online/knox/OT), though it is at times a little too idiosyncratic. 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- One of the particular challenges of teaching theology today—even to students who have some religious background—is the utter lack of theological formation most people in the United States receive. Some students may come in with some religious formation, in that they have participated in their church’s faith formation classes or even theology classes in a religious high school, but that formation tends to be more catechetical than theological. To oversimplify, catechesis provides a student with a religious community’s answers to theological questions, but it does not always provide the rationale for those answers. + Here I rank the Oscars nominees for Best Picture, from least favorite to favorite. Honestly this was a very good year for Best Picture nominees so it was hard ranking them. With the exception of my bottom 3 (I really did not care for any of those), I could very easily arrive at an entirely different ranking, depending on the day. +10. Maestro Everything about Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic just felt so effortful, especially the performances.
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- In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny & his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls “the pattern & prototype of all sin.” (Spoilers follow.) -Danny & Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old & working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications. + Today, on the feast of Saints Perpetua & Felicity, I thought about their martyrdom. The account of their martyrdom—most of which is written by Perpetua herself—is a witness not only to the victory of life over death upon which Christianity is founded, but also of resistance against imperial oppression. Indeed, it is precisely in their dying that Perpetua & Felicity overcome the death-dealing ways of the Roman empire. From Perpetua’s Passion:
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- Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: - Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. + One of the particular challenges of teaching theology today—even to students who have some religious background—is the utter lack of theological formation most people in the United States receive. Some students may come in with some religious formation, in that they have participated in their church’s faith formation classes or even theology classes in a religious high school, but that formation tends to be more catechetical than theological. To oversimplify, catechesis provides a student with a religious community’s answers to theological questions, but it does not always provide the rationale for those answers.
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- In which I read Bullshit Jobs: A Theory & Swimming in the Dark & Silence: A Novel & Way Back to God: The Spiritual Theology of St Bonaventure & Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World; & watched The Grapes of Wrath & May December & The Holdovers & The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes & Napoleon & The Muppets Christmas Carol & Home Alone & Poor Things & It’s a Wonderful Life & Saltburn & The Color Purple (2023). + In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny & his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls “the pattern & prototype of all sin.” (Spoilers follow.) +Danny & Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old & working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications.
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- Fiducia supplicans presents itself as “an innovative contribution to the pastoral meaning of blessings, permitting a broadening & enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings” (emphasis original). I have already said something about how this “innovation” might fit into a Catholic theological project, particularly where doctrinal development is concerned. I’d like now to comment more broadly on the document itself & what it has to say about blessings of couples. My main takeaway from Fiducia supplicans is that all persons & couples, including but not only those couples whose relationships do not conform to the church’s expectations, stand in need of God’s love & mercy, & so spontaneous, frequent, & abundant blessing of all persons & couples ought to be a regular feature of the church’s life as “sacrament of God’s infinite love” (§43). + Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: +Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M.
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- Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. - [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. - Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. + In which I read Bullshit Jobs: A Theory & Swimming in the Dark & Silence: A Novel & Way Back to God: The Spiritual Theology of St Bonaventure & Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World; & watched The Grapes of Wrath & May December & The Holdovers & The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes & Napoleon & The Muppets Christmas Carol & Home Alone & Poor Things & It’s a Wonderful Life & Saltburn & The Color Purple (2023).
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diff --git a/public/index.xml b/public/index.xml index 873ef48..00d1cd8 100644 --- a/public/index.xml +++ b/public/index.xml @@ -6,277 +6,203 @@ Recent content on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:26:00 -0500 + Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:37:12 -0400 + + + The New Jerusalem Bible & the Revised New Jerusalem Bible, compared + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0710_jerusalem-bibles/ + Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:37:12 -0400 + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0710_jerusalem-bibles/ + In 1943, Pope Pius XII promulgated Divino afflante Spiritu, encouraging the translation of the Bible on the basis of original Hebrew & Greek texts. Prior to Divino afflante Spiritu the Latin Vulgate had served as the textual basis for Catholic translations of the Bible; this new directive from the pope inaugurated the modern era of Catholic biblical scholarship. The French Dominicans at the École Biblique in Jerusalem answered the call, publishing a French translation of the Bible—La Bible de Jérusalem—in 1956. + + + Best Picture nominees, ranked + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0310_oscars/ + Sun, 10 Mar 2024 08:29:12 -0500 + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0310_oscars/ + Here I rank the Oscars nominees for Best Picture, from least favorite to favorite. Honestly this was a very good year for Best Picture nominees so it was hard ranking them. With the exception of my bottom 3 (I really did not care for any of those), I could very easily arrive at an entirely different ranking, depending on the day. 10. Maestro Everything about Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic just felt so effortful, especially the performances. + Perpetua, Felicity, & the Roman empire http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0307_perpetua-felicity/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:26:00 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0307_perpetua-felicity/ Today, on the feast of Saints Perpetua & Felicity, I thought about their martyrdom. The account of their martyrdom—most of which is written by Perpetua herself—is a witness not only to the victory of life over death upon which Christianity is founded, but also of resistance against imperial oppression. Indeed, it is precisely in their dying that Perpetua & Felicity overcome the death-dealing ways of the Roman empire. From Perpetua’s Passion: - First things first http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0115_first-things-first/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:05:29 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0115_first-things-first/ One of the particular challenges of teaching theology today—even to students who have some religious background—is the utter lack of theological formation most people in the United States receive. Some students may come in with some religious formation, in that they have participated in their church’s faith formation classes or even theology classes in a religious high school, but that formation tends to be more catechetical than theological. To oversimplify, catechesis provides a student with a religious community’s answers to theological questions, but it does not always provide the rationale for those answers. - The pattern & prototype of all sin http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0113_pattern-prototype-of-all-sin/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 11:23:31 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0113_pattern-prototype-of-all-sin/ - In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny & his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls “the pattern & prototype of all sin.” (Spoilers follow.) -Danny & Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old & working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications. + In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny & his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls “the pattern & prototype of all sin.” (Spoilers follow.) Danny & Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old & working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications. - Top tens in 2023 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_top-tens/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:20:54 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_top-tens/ - Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: - Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. + Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. - Logbook—December 2023 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_logbook/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 10:18:10 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_logbook/ In which I read Bullshit Jobs: A Theory & Swimming in the Dark & Silence: A Novel & Way Back to God: The Spiritual Theology of St Bonaventure & Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World; & watched The Grapes of Wrath & May December & The Holdovers & The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes & Napoleon & The Muppets Christmas Carol & Home Alone & Poor Things & It’s a Wonderful Life & Saltburn & The Color Purple (2023). - Frequent & spontaneous blessing http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1229_frequent-spontaneous-blessing/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:24:32 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1229_frequent-spontaneous-blessing/ Fiducia supplicans presents itself as “an innovative contribution to the pastoral meaning of blessings, permitting a broadening & enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings” (emphasis original). I have already said something about how this “innovation” might fit into a Catholic theological project, particularly where doctrinal development is concerned. I’d like now to comment more broadly on the document itself & what it has to say about blessings of couples. My main takeaway from Fiducia supplicans is that all persons & couples, including but not only those couples whose relationships do not conform to the church’s expectations, stand in need of God’s love & mercy, & so spontaneous, frequent, & abundant blessing of all persons & couples ought to be a regular feature of the church’s life as “sacrament of God’s infinite love” (§43). - Why do we need the humanities if no one is majoring in them? http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231228_why-do-we-need-the-humanities/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:24:37 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231228_why-do-we-need-the-humanities/ - Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. - [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. - Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. + Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. - A new blog http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231227_a-new-blog/ Wed, 27 Dec 2023 08:00:00 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231227_a-new-blog/ When I started micro blogging in 2021, I never planned to do anything but that: micro blog. I’d tried to blog before—my first website was a static site generated by Jekyll—but it had never stuck. I liked the idea of instead having a fairly low-effort, ephemeral site: a blog populated with posts about what I’m reading, quotations I’m mulling over, even some pictures, etc. For a while that’s all I did with micro. - Fiducia supplicans & church teaching http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231223_fiducia-supplicans-church-teaching/ Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:33:05 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231223_fiducia-supplicans-church-teaching/ I’ve seen a fair amount of hand wringing over Fiducia supplicans where the consistency of church teaching & papal authority are concerned. The concern goes something like this: Fiducia supplicans, signed by Pope Francis, reaffirms the Catholic church’s historical teaching on marriage (as possible only between a woman & a man) while allowing for blessings of couples who do not conform to that teaching of marriage. This means the Catholic church will have to either forge ahead, perhaps revising its understanding of marriage to include partnerships between persons of the same gender, or pull back from Fiducia supplicans to reaffirm its historical understanding of marriage. - Venerable night: brilliant & solemn http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231204_venerable-night/ Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:00:00 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231204_venerable-night/ It was winter in Italy, eight hundred years ago, & Assisi’s poverello had an idea.1 Francis of Assisi had become obsessed with the words & deeds of Jesus Christ, his rustic parables & simple gestures that, despite (or perhaps because of) their lowliness, communicated divine majesty & awe. According to an early biographer,2 “so thoroughly did the humility of the incarnation & the charity of the passion occupy his memory that he scarcely wanted to think of anything else. - November 2023 logbook http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231130_logbook/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:38:35 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231130_logbook/ - In which I watched Killers of the Flower Moon, The Blair Witch Project, & The Killing of a Sacred Deer; & read Questioning God, Ways of Seeing, Revelations of Divine Love, & Julian of Norwich, Theologian. -Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023). What an amazing film. I don’t even want to say much about it here, because I know I can’t do it justice in the space of a short paragraph. + In which I watched Killers of the Flower Moon, The Blair Witch Project, & The Killing of a Sacred Deer; & read Questioning God, Ways of Seeing, Revelations of Divine Love, & Julian of Norwich, Theologian. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023). What an amazing film. I don’t even want to say much about it here, because I know I can’t do it justice in the space of a short paragraph. - October 2023 logbook http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231031_logbook/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:40:18 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231031_logbook/ - I thought it might be fun at the end of each month to list the movies I’d seen that month & some thoughts about each. -Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948). Jacqueline & I decided to watch some Hitchcock in honor of Halloween at the end of the month. We’ve seen a few Hitchcock already, but not Rope. I enjoyed it, though it’s not my favorite of his (that remains Psycho). I love good, long scenes, & Hitchcock’s clever camera work to make the entire film seem like a single take really ratchets up the tension. + I thought it might be fun at the end of each month to list the movies I’d seen that month & some thoughts about each. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948). Jacqueline & I decided to watch some Hitchcock in honor of Halloween at the end of the month. We’ve seen a few Hitchcock already, but not Rope. I enjoyed it, though it’s not my favorite of his (that remains Psycho). I love good, long scenes, & Hitchcock’s clever camera work to make the entire film seem like a single take really ratchets up the tension. - Writing assignments in Theology 101 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230903_writing-assignments-in-theology-101/ Sun, 03 Sep 2023 14:36:55 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230903_writing-assignments-in-theology-101/ - (Well, not quite Theology 101; rather, Theology & Franciscan Studies 101, which isn’t exactly an intro to theology.) -I’m finally getting close to a “final form” for my sections of “The Way of Francis & Clare.” The course schedule, including reading assignments, is mostly set, but what’s really tied together the entire course is the integration of a service learning project throughout the semester. -Throughout the semester, students take what they learn about Franciscan values to design, plan, & implement a service project that does some good for the local community. + (Well, not quite Theology 101; rather, Theology & Franciscan Studies 101, which isn’t exactly an intro to theology.) I’m finally getting close to a “final form” for my sections of “The Way of Francis & Clare.” The course schedule, including reading assignments, is mostly set, but what’s really tied together the entire course is the integration of a service learning project throughout the semester. Throughout the semester, students take what they learn about Franciscan values to design, plan, & implement a service project that does some good for the local community. - Barbenheimer http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230724_barbenheimer/ Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:35:24 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230724_barbenheimer/ - I really enjoyed both Barbie & Oppenheimer; I plan to see both again soon, but some initial thoughts: -Barbie is just so fun to watch, start to finish. The production design is stunningly detailed, the writing is weird & funny, & Ryan Gosling & Margot Robbie both deliver wonderful performances—Gosling’s wonderfully funny, & Robbie’s wonderfully subtle. Greta Gerwig adds another film to her already impressive body of work in this sensitive & delightful reflection on the human project of making meaning in the face of uncertainty & death. + I really enjoyed both Barbie & Oppenheimer; I plan to see both again soon, but some initial thoughts: Barbie is just so fun to watch, start to finish. The production design is stunningly detailed, the writing is weird & funny, & Ryan Gosling & Margot Robbie both deliver wonderful performances—Gosling’s wonderfully funny, & Robbie’s wonderfully subtle. Greta Gerwig adds another film to her already impressive body of work in this sensitive & delightful reflection on the human project of making meaning in the face of uncertainty & death. - On teaching Francis & Clare http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230623_on-teaching-francis-clare/ Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:08:58 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230623_on-teaching-francis-clare/ - How to teach a course on Francis & Clare of Assisi?1 The 101 class offered by the Department of Theology & Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University is titled “The Way of Francis & Clare.” This course aims to introduce students to the Franciscan roots that underlie the mission & values of SBU by a semester-long study of the lives & writings of Francis & Clare. -Teaching such a course is not without its challenges. + How to teach a course on Francis & Clare of Assisi?1 The 101 class offered by the Department of Theology & Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University is titled “The Way of Francis & Clare.” This course aims to introduce students to the Franciscan roots that underlie the mission & values of SBU by a semester-long study of the lives & writings of Francis & Clare. Teaching such a course is not without its challenges. - Reading Anselm http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230614_reading-anselm/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:33:33 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230614_reading-anselm/ I admire the aim in Elizabeth Johnson’s Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril: to produce a theology that considers how Jesus’s life, death, & resurrection are good news for the whole cosmos, particularly in the context of ecological crisis. & while I don’t disagree with some of the conclusions (presented chiefly in book 6), ironically the particularity of Jesus’s life (natal & risen) & his death don’t seem to determine the conclusions as much as the work’s title might lead one to expect. - Freely given & gratefully received http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230427_freely-given-gratefully-received/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:15:31 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230427_freely-given-gratefully-received/ - ‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ -‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ - This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. + ‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ ‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. - Love restores the world to order http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230423_love-restores-the-world-to-order/ Sun, 23 Apr 2023 14:32:17 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230423_love-restores-the-world-to-order/ - Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: - But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. + Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. - A few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of christianity http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230410_a-few-things-you-would-read/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:30:02 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230410_a-few-things-you-would-read/ - Inspired by Phil Christman’s recent post of the same name, here’s a list of a few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of Christianity. -Here’s Christman’s own disclaimer regarding his list, which I also make for my own: - This is not, by the way, a canon or an attempt at canon-making. It’s extremely personal, and reflects my personal circumstances, which are narrow, like everyone’s. + Inspired by Phil Christman’s recent post of the same name, here’s a list of a few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of Christianity. Here’s Christman’s own disclaimer regarding his list, which I also make for my own: This is not, by the way, a canon or an attempt at canon-making. It’s extremely personal, and reflects my personal circumstances, which are narrow, like everyone’s. - Reading in 2022 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20221231_reading-in-2022/ Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:17:41 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20221231_reading-in-2022/ - This year I read 63 books (actually a couple more, as there were some I didn’t log), & I tracked my reading with StoryGraph. This graph is so interesting; you can see the effect the fall & spring semesters have on my reading. -Some of the more engaging books I read this year include: - Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching. Mark D. Jordan. The Argonauts. Maggie Nelson. How to Be Normal. + This year I read 63 books (actually a couple more, as there were some I didn’t log), & I tracked my reading with StoryGraph. This graph is so interesting; you can see the effect the fall & spring semesters have on my reading. Some of the more engaging books I read this year include: Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching. Mark D. Jordan. The Argonauts. Maggie Nelson. How to Be Normal. Phil Christman. - A personal canon (in progress) http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20220530_personal-canon/ Mon, 30 May 2022 14:15:51 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20220530_personal-canon/ - Yesterday I saw a tweet floating around asking for your “personal canon,” that is, which are the books that you have used to understand the world? Limiting myself only to written works (and not, say, music or film), here’s what I would say, roughly ordered according to when I encountered these books: - The gospel according to Luke The book of Revelation A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury The Plague by Albert Camus The Prophets by Abraham J. + Yesterday I saw a tweet floating around asking for your “personal canon,” that is, which are the books that you have used to understand the world? Limiting myself only to written works (and not, say, music or film), here’s what I would say, roughly ordered according to when I encountered these books: The gospel according to Luke The book of Revelation A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury The Plague by Albert Camus The Prophets by Abraham J. - El víacrucis http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20210329_el-viacrucis/ Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:08:57 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20210329_el-viacrucis/ Holy Week of any year—that week of prayer & fasting ordered to the cross and, eventually, the empty tomb—always has a nearness to the first Holy Week, as the drama of the liturgy moves modern-day Christians through the drama of the passion. Holy Week 2020, however, seemed especially near. The reality of coronavirus was setting in, along with the bitter realization it would be a long time before we could safely gather with family, friends, & religious communities. - A Christmas tree blessing http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20201129_christmas-tree-blessing/ Sun, 29 Nov 2020 14:07:04 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20201129_christmas-tree-blessing/ - Good & gracious God, -you who are power & wisdom & goodness— -Bless this tree, -a sign of life & freshness & perseverance in our midst. -May it stand as a reminder -of light in the dark of night, -and of life in the dead of winter. -May its supple branches & sharp, sweet scent -keep fresh in our minds & our hands -the mercy & generosity you show -in all your dealings with your beloved people. + Good & gracious God, you who are power & wisdom & goodness— Bless this tree, a sign of life & freshness & perseverance in our midst. May it stand as a reminder of light in the dark of night, and of life in the dead of winter. May its supple branches & sharp, sweet scent keep fresh in our minds & our hands the mercy & generosity you show in all your dealings with your beloved people. - On baptism http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20200922_on-baptism/ Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:04:44 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20200922_on-baptism/ - Dear C—,1 -This past Sunday, on a cool & bright New York day with the edges of autumn just beginning to creep into the last days of summer, you were baptized. Like autumn into summer, you may find the fact of your baptism—something in which you had no say & of which you have no memory—creeping into your life in strange & unexpected ways; you may not know quite why you were baptized; you may wonder what the point of your baptism was at all. + Dear C—,1 This past Sunday, on a cool & bright New York day with the edges of autumn just beginning to creep into the last days of summer, you were baptized. Like autumn into summer, you may find the fact of your baptism—something in which you had no say & of which you have no memory—creeping into your life in strange & unexpected ways; you may not know quite why you were baptized; you may wonder what the point of your baptism was at all. - That attention is love http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20190518_that-attention-is-love/ Sat, 18 May 2019 13:30:14 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20190518_that-attention-is-love/ - In the very year of our engagement, Lady Bird was released. -Toward the end of this magnanimous film -the titular character meets with her English teacher, Sister Sarah Joan, -to discuss a short story she wrote for class. -That wise nun comments how clearly -Lady Bird’s love for Sacramento comes through, -much to Lady Bird’s—and the viewer’s—surprise. -Up till now we have seen Lady Bird straining -at the borders of her hometown + In the very year of our engagement, Lady Bird was released. Toward the end of this magnanimous film the titular character meets with her English teacher, Sister Sarah Joan, to discuss a short story she wrote for class. That wise nun comments how clearly Lady Bird’s love for Sacramento comes through, much to Lady Bird’s—and the viewer’s—surprise. Up till now we have seen Lady Bird straining at the borders of her hometown - about http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/about/ On this blog you will find five types of posts. First is opinion, in which I offer my thoughts on news & current events. Second is criticism, in which I offer commentary on literature, film, TV, & other media. Third is speculation, in which I ruminate over theological ideas & questions. Fourth is reflection, in which I reflect on my life & work. 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- When I started micro blogging in 2021, I never planned to do anything but that: micro blog. I’d tried to blog before—my first website was a static site generated by Jekyll—but it had never stuck. I liked the idea of instead having a fairly low-effort, ephemeral site: a blog populated with posts about what I’m reading, quotations I’m mulling over, even some pictures, etc. For a while that’s all I did with micro. + Fiducia supplicans presents itself as “an innovative contribution to the pastoral meaning of blessings, permitting a broadening & enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings” (emphasis original). I have already said something about how this “innovation” might fit into a Catholic theological project, particularly where doctrinal development is concerned. I’d like now to comment more broadly on the document itself & what it has to say about blessings of couples. My main takeaway from Fiducia supplicans is that all persons & couples, including but not only those couples whose relationships do not conform to the church’s expectations, stand in need of God’s love & mercy, & so spontaneous, frequent, & abundant blessing of all persons & couples ought to be a regular feature of the church’s life as “sacrament of God’s infinite love” (§43).
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On baptism

The joys of life are many, & you’ll come to learn these in time—riding a bike without training wheels, enjoying a meal you helped to prepare, reading a book your mom loved when she was your age. But when you have enjoyed all life has to offer & when you come to the end of your time on earth, there life’s final obligation imposes itself. If you’ll allow me to be blunt: all living things—human beings, animals, plants—must die. Even nonliving things tend toward decay—given enough time, rocks break down into sand, stars explode into stardust, houses fall apart. This is an unfortunate, tragic, unsettling fact, but a fact nonetheless.

But it is exactly because of this burden of death that your parents had you baptized. Baptism, you see, is a remedy to the death into which all living things are born. When you were baptized, water was poured over your head three times. This ritual symbolically—though as Catholics we really ought to say “sacramentally”—puts the person being baptized to death; when she is lifted out of the baptismal font, she is raised to new life & made a member of the community founded by Christ & made up of all the baptized. This community—which we call “the church”—is freed by baptism from the reign of death & liberated into a reign of life. The freedom of the Christian is a freedom to live in & by the love of God—a love that is totally selfless & pure, concerned never for itself but always for the other.

But just as being born naturally imposed upon you an obligation of death, so does being reborn sacramentally impose upon you an obligation. & as you would expect, the obligation baptism imposes is exactly the opposite of the one imposed by being born: the baptized are obliged to live!

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Christians have a peculiar understanding of what it is to live; peculiar, at least, according to how the rest of the world tends to think of what it is to live. For Christians to live, they must live for others—they must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, take in the stranger, visit the imprisoned. (For more on this, see chapter 25 of Matthew’s Gospel; or the Sermon on the Mount, found in chapters 5–7 of the same Gospel.) & very often, Christians must inconvenience themselves to live in this way—they must feed the hungry with their own food, clothe the naked with their own clothing, take the stranger into their own home, & visit the imprisoned on their own time. (St. Basil the Great says the unworn jacket in your closet rightfully belongs to the poor person who has no jacket!2) In this way, the life you received in your baptism is not so much yours as it is others', especially those most in need of your help.

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Christians have a peculiar understanding of what it is to live; peculiar, at least, according to how the rest of the world tends to think of what it is to live. For Christians to live, they must live for others—they must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, take in the stranger, visit the imprisoned. (For more on this, see chapter 25 of Matthew’s Gospel; or the Sermon on the Mount, found in chapters 5–7 of the same Gospel.) & very often, Christians must inconvenience themselves to live in this way—they must feed the hungry with their own food, clothe the naked with their own clothing, take the stranger into their own home, & visit the imprisoned on their own time. (St. Basil the Great says the unworn jacket in your closet rightfully belongs to the poor person who has no jacket!2) In this way, the life you received in your baptism is not so much yours as it is others’, especially those most in need of your help.

This obligation to live liberates us from the relentless rhythm of decay, that dirge of death according to which the rest of the world marches. Yet that baptismal obligation is not always pleasant—as I’ve just suggested, it involves a personal cost to the Christian. You may find yourself with less food than you might otherwise have because you’ve given some to your hungry neighbor, for example. What’s more, you may find the task itself unpleasant. The hungry might lack table manners, or the poor decorum; the stranger’s unusual customs might confuse you, & the prisoner’s past might frighten. (St. Vincent de Paul has some really lovely words on this; I remain forever haunted by his claim: “It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them.” I have tears in my eyes as I recall my own failings in this respect.)

There’s another reason why we might shy away from baptism’s obligation (and many, regrettably, do). The obligation of baptism to live runs directly contrary to the world & its designs. Unlike the white garment of life that the baptized wear, the world wears a death shroud and, wittingly or not, the world seeks to shroud more of the living in death. There’s a reason, after all, that there are people without enough food, or too poor for clothing or a home, or lacking the freedom you enjoy. For the Christian to live her life for others, then, & for her to spread life in a world of death, is a subversive, even dangerous, undertaking. Indeed, the Christian seeks nothing less than liberation for all those bound by chains of death: liberation from hunger & poverty, and, yes, from the literal chains of the prison yard. The Christian seeks to undo, once & for all, the pattern of death in the world. (For more on this, see Mary’s Magnificat toward the end of the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke.)

This is the sort of subversive, dangerous trouble Jesus got himself into. He came into a world of death preaching a message of life & love; he rejected the status quo & sought to undo the patterns of death that keep all, oppressors & oppressed alike, in chains. But the powers that be would not stand for it; they dealt with the problem in the only way they knew how, & they had him killed. Ironically, it was this very act of violence against life that assured the final victory of life over death (but that’s another email for another time; in the meantime, you might take a look at chapter 15 of Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, especially verses 35 & following).

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Perhaps you find yourself inspired by the liberating power of your baptism; perhaps you find yourself daunted at the prospect of such a demanding life; perhaps you find yourself vaguely annoyed at having spent so much time reading all this nonsense! (I hope it’s not that last one, but I’m aware it’s at least a possibility.) However you respond to this—whether positively, negatively, or even indifferently—I hope you know there are people in your life who will always be available to talk to you about this. Your mom & dad rightly saw the good of baptism & so decided it was for you; your aunt V— & uncle B— as your godparents, have a special responsibility to guide you in matters of faith & spirituality; & I hope you’ll think of me as someone you can talk to about this. I promise you’ll always find in these people generous listeners, patient conversation partners, & loving family members. I look forward to the day we can talk about some of this, but until then I remain—

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A Christmas tree blessing

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El víacrucis

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Holy Week of any year—that week of prayer & fasting ordered to the cross and, eventually, the empty tomb—always has a nearness to the first Holy Week, as the drama of the liturgy moves modern-day Christians through the drama of the passion. Holy Week 2020, however, seemed especially near. The reality of coronavirus was setting in, along with the bitter realization it would be a long time before we could safely gather with family, friends, & religious communities. People all around the world were (and still are) dying, & the coronavirus crisis exacerbated existing injustices in our world: poverty, lack of access to healthcare, racism. It was not hard to imagine the disciples' despair, their feeling that the world crumbled before them.

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I was (and am) fortunate to live in an intentional community, committed to shared living in an interreligious space. It was around this time last year that we began celebrating liturgy together regularly—weekly prayer services, a Passover Seder, & the Easter Triduum.

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Laurel Marshall Potter—colleague, friend, housemate—and I composed the following prayer service for our community. Our community—Jews & Christians, Salvadorans & Americans & Koreans, students & young professionals—gathered on Good Friday 2020 to reflect on the movement of the passion & what it revealed of the suffering of our world. I am grateful to Laurel for permitting me to share this service on this site; I am grateful, too, to our community for affording us a space for prayer & reflection.

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Holy Week of any year—that week of prayer & fasting ordered to the cross and, eventually, the empty tomb—always has a nearness to the first Holy Week, as the drama of the liturgy moves modern-day Christians through the drama of the passion. Holy Week 2020, however, seemed especially near. The reality of coronavirus was setting in, along with the bitter realization it would be a long time before we could safely gather with family, friends, & religious communities. People all around the world were (and still are) dying, & the coronavirus crisis exacerbated existing injustices in our world: poverty, lack of access to healthcare, racism. It was not hard to imagine the disciples’ despair, their feeling that the world crumbled before them.

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I was (& am) fortunate to live in an intentional community, committed to shared living in an interreligious space. It was around this time last year that we began celebrating liturgy together regularly—weekly prayer services, a Passover Seder, & the Easter Triduum.

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Laurel Marshall Potter—colleague, friend, housemate—and I composed the following prayer service for our community. Our community—Jews & Christians, Salvadorans & Americans & Koreans, students & young professionals—gathered on Good Friday 2020 to reflect on the movement of the passion & what it revealed of the suffering of our world. I am grateful to Laurel for permitting me to share this service on this site; I am grateful, too, to our community for affording us a space for prayer & reflection.

opening prayer

The way of the cross is an apocalyptic event in that it is a revelatory event. The cross reveals the injustices of our world, the manner in which those in power gain & keep power, the complicity each of us has in communal sin. Yet it reveals too the depths of God’s love. It is not God’s will that this injustice persist; it is not God’s will that the powerful remain so; it is not God’s will that the guilt of sin stains us forever. Jesus’s long walk to Golgotha makes manifest to us who God is: the God of Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob, the God of the prophets, the God of the living, the God of mercy & justice. This God walks the way of death in solidarity with all who suffer, as one who suffers, that they might suffer no more. The way ends on the cross in death—and by that very death, so ends death itself.

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Walking this way of the cross with Jesus, we see the pervasiveness of this death culture. We have seen the seemingly insurmountable power of injustice, & we have witnessed our own complicity in that injustice. It seems foolish to hope that it could be otherwise, that we could be freed of the structures of sin that constrain our freedom & flourishing, that the systems of injustice could be dismantled. Who will beat the guns into plowshares when there are wars to be fought?

Yet this is our hope. This is what God has promised, again & again in the Law & in the Prophets & in the Gospels. We know not when or how, but we do know this—God always finds the unlooked-for solution. God always creates new realities & paradigms beyond our imaginative capacities to be in relationship with us. This is our hope, foolish though it may seem, that God will do good on God’s promise. On this darkest of days, out of the very depths of despair, we can but cry our foolish hope: “Hosanna, hosanna in the highest.”

℟. Glory be to God, now & forever. Amen.

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A personal canon (in progress)

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Reading in 2022

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Frequent & spontaneous blessing

In other words, Fiducia supplicans affirms that God is present to queer couples in their relationship! That God can be present to a couple whose relationship does not conform to the church’s understanding of marriage is, of course, obvious to any loving couple & to those who know & love such couples. But for a document signed by the pope to recognize this, too, is significant—this, I take it, is what is innovative about Fiducia supplicans.

Fiducia supplicans wants to be clear that blessings of couples who do not conform to the church’s understanding of marriage are pastoral, not liturgical, blessings (see §§24, 33, 38, 39). But this is a perplexing distinction: as my friend & colleague, an expert on Catholic liturgy, sacramental theology, & ecclesiology, observed, Lumen gentium identifies the liturgy as “the source & summit of the whole of Christian life” (§11). Indeed, Víctor Manuel Cardinal Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, in his prologue to Fiducia supplicans observes that “the broadening & enrichment” of blessings that Fidcuia supplicans accomplishes “is closely linked to a liturgical perspective.” How can any pastoral activity of the church be divided from the liturgical origins & destination of the church?

There is, of course, much more to say about Fiducia supplicans & its implications for the life of the church. But on the whole I am pretty encouraged by its theology of blessing & its recognition that God’s love & mercy is available to all couples who seek it.

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Logbook—December 2023

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Top tens in 2023

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Love restores the world to order

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Freely given & gratefully received

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Reading Anselm

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The hope here is that students will read the “signs of the times,” as it were, in light of the lives & values of Francis & Clare. My sections of “The Way of Francis & Clare” tend to focus on the moral & spiritual challenge posed by climate change; I have found this issue is rarely far from students’ minds, & Francis & Clare offer some particularly apt resources to engage this issue.

Consider, for example, ideas of fraternity & kinship. What obligations do we humans have to the natural world, if nonhuman creatures are sister & brother to us as Francis sang? How have humans failed in that obligation, particularly in the wake of the industrial revolution & the widespread environmental degradation of our day? If God is praised through all God’s creatures, what does the loss of biodiversity mean for creation’s capacity to reflect the depths of God’s goodness & beauty? How should human beings who enjoy some degree of privilege respond with mercy & compassion to the cry of the earth & the cry of the poor? We ask these & related questions in light of our study of Francis & Clare.

The goal of “The Way of Francis & Clare” is not just to know a little bit about the personalities behind the mission & values of SBU; the goal is also to consider how Francis & Clare continue to speak to people of good will today, urging us to patterns of life that prefer mercy to cruelty, compassion to apathy, generosity to wealth, justice to oppression. Whether they are heard today depends as much on the students as it does the instructor, but if we cannot hear Francis & Clare in their own day we certainly cannot hear them in ours.

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Writing assignments in Theology 101

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October 2023 logbook

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November 2023 logbook

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Venerable night: brilliant & solemn

What Francis brought to life with startling clarity in his Christmas crèche is the scandalous claim that lies at the heart of Christianity: that when God enters the world, God enters as a helpless child, squirming in swaddling clothes & tugging at his mother’s breast. Mary gives birth not in a comfortable, sanitary room at the inn, attended to by midwives & physicians, but rather in a dirty barn, as beasts of burden & shepherds look on. God is welcomed into the world not by a rich & powerful family, but rather by poor, refugee parents who are the object of rumor & reproach. This is the nativity of the Lord of the universe! We are told that, on that night, “simplicity is given a place of honor, poverty is exalted, & humility is commended.”4

What Francis teaches us members of the St. Bonaventure University community, we who are heir to the Franciscan tradition, is that holiness is not found among the powerful & the privileged. Holiness is not found in status or comfort. Holiness cannot be bought. Rather, if we wish to find holiness, we must look for it in what is considered lowly & unworthy. We must look for holiness among the rejected & outcast & marginalized. We must look for holiness where we do not expect to find it. Indeed, perhaps holiness is most fully encountered in exactly the places & persons we least expect to find it.

This, indeed, is the reason for the season. This is what Christmas celebrates. What Francis proclaims at Christmas is God’s movement into solidarity with the poor & the vulnerable, as one who is poor & vulnerable, in order that God may “raise up the lowly, & fill the hungry with good things.” Francis’s Christmas crèche invites us to contemplate this mystery & sends us forth to go & do likewise.

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Fiducia supplicans & church teaching

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A new blog

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Why do we need the humanities if no one is majoring in them?

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The pattern & prototype of all sin

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First, why study theology? Tara Isabella Burton is our guide here. Her argument for the place of theology in a liberal arts education, published in The Atlantic, is two-pronged. First, the academic discipline of theology represents something like a synthesis & integration of the skills & insights developed across the various fields that together make up the liberal arts—a “Queen of the Humanities,” as it were. Second, theology teaches a person to think from the inside out: to get inside the heads of people, past & present, to understand why they do what they do. As I tell students, the goal of theological study is not to convert someone to any particular religion, but rather to convert them to empathy.

Second, what is God? Much of this session is negative, ruling out what God is not. God is not a big man in the sky who grants obedient little humans their wishes. Neither is God, pace Richard Dawkins, a scientific fact about the universe. Here I use (for the first time this semester) John Haught’s What Is God?. We’ll see how it goes.

Third, what is spirituality? Since “The Way of Francis & Clare” aims to introduce students to the spiritualities of Francis & Clare, we need to get a handle on what is meant by “spirituality” in the first place. No one definition for spirituality can satisfy everyone, but I introduce spirituality by way of Thomas Merton’s New Seeds of Contemplation, particularly the chapter “Things in Their Identity.” Spirituality, in short, is the search for one’s “true self.” Students, I’ve found, really like Merton & this chapter.

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Finally, what is service? The semester-long assignment is a service-learning project, which provides students a chance to do some good for their local communities while reflecting on that experience in connection with themes from Franciscan theology & spirituality. To do so fruitfully, they have to understand what it really means to serve, especially in the Franciscan tradition. On this, we consider Pope Francis’s theology of encounter & his interpretation of the parable of the good Samaritan.

By the end of this first unit, I hope to have corrected some theological misapprehensions & perhaps even assuaged some misgivings about the course.2 Even though I often wish students came into class with a more refined theological formation, this unit sometimes ends up delivering some of the most engaging class sessions of the course.

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Perpetua, Felicity, & the Roman empire

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Here I rank the Oscars nominees for Best Picture, from least favorite to favorite. Honestly this was a very good year for Best Picture nominees so it was hard ranking them. With the exception of my bottom 3 (I really did not care for any of those), I could very easily arrive at an entirely different ranking, depending on the day.

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Everything about Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic just felt so effortful, especially the performances. I have little to say about it because the film was just so uninteresting.

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While I appreciated some features of Jonathan Glazer’s exploration of the mundane evil of the Holocaust, the film as a whole felt empty. (Maybe that was the idea.)

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I cannot understand the enthusiasm this film garnered. Yorgos Lanthimos’s riff on Frankenstein, while delightful to look at & entertaining at times, is so singularly interested in Bella’s sexual liberation at the almost utter exclusion of any other aspect of her that the film ends up being tedious & thin. I wanted to like it much more than I did.

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Alexander Payne’s holiday film, about a group of misfits stuck together for the Christmas break, is really fun. I can’t remember who said it, but some critic put it well when they said: I’ve seen this movie a thousand times before, but this is the best version of this movie. It’s hard to imagine how the Academy could not award Da’Vine Joy Randolph with Best Supporting Actress.

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While I still stand by my initial feelings—it buckles a bit under its own weight—Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the architect of the atomic bomb still has thrilling & wrenching moments. The two timelines don’t quite hang together & the movie suffers as a result, though the nonlinear approach does allow Nolan to end on the most affecting scene. I think Oppenheimer will win Best Picture (along with most of the awards its received nominations for).

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I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Celine Song’s story of lost & rediscovered love. The final few moments are simultaneously heartbreaking & hopeful. Greta Lee is wonderful, as is John Magaro.

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Greta Gerwig is such an incredible director, finding depths of love & humanity in even the most mundane settings: the bickering between a mother & daughter, the struggles of & pressures felt by a family of women, & now even the “coming-of-age” of a plastic doll. Margot Robbie delivers a wonderfully subtle performance, inviting us to consider the ways we make meaning, in ways both helpful & harmful, in the world. I’d love to see more collaboration between Gerwig & Robbie (but not, please God, in a Barbie sequel).

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Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, about prowling wolves devouring the land & its Osage inhabitants, is a brilliant film. Despite the film’s length, Scorsese held my interest the entire time, thanks in no small part to the stunning cinematography & excellent performances. Lily Gladstone’s deserves to be named Best Actress, & this film deserves Best Picture. The final scene, with Martin Scorsese’s cameo, brilliantly reframes the entire film & calls himself—& the audience—to account. No one does violence, evil, & calls to repentance like Scorsese.

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In 1943, Pope Pius XII promulgated Divino afflante Spiritu, encouraging the translation of the Bible on the basis of original Hebrew & Greek texts. Prior to Divino afflante Spiritu the Latin Vulgate had served as the textual basis for Catholic translations of the Bible; this new directive from the pope inaugurated the modern era of Catholic biblical scholarship.

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The French Dominicans at the École Biblique in Jerusalem answered the call, publishing a French translation of the Bible—La Bible de Jérusalem—in 1956.1 In addition to the text itself, La Bible de Jérusalem offered scholarly introductions to each book & extensive notes to the text. Ten years later an English translation—the Jerusalem Bible—appeared. More a translation of the French text of La Bible de Jérusalem than the Hebrew & Greek, the primary contribution of the Jerusalem Bible was to make available French biblical scholarship to an English readership. Still, as the first complete translation of the Bible into modern English, the Jerusalem Bible was received eagerly among English-speaking Catholics (& even some Protestants).

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Still, advances in biblical scholarship & a need for a proper translation of the Hebrew & Greek texts called for an update to the Jerusalem Bible. In 1985 the New Jerusalem Bible appeared, translating directly the Hebrew & Greek texts while still taking inspiration from the French edition.

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Then, in the early 2000s, the African bishops asked for a more affordable edition of the Jerusalem Bible, which brought to light the need for another update to the New Jerusalem Bible. The fruit of that update is the Revised New Jerusalem Bible, published recently (2019) by Darton, Longman & Todd under the direction of Henry Wansbrough. The RNJB was produced according to the following three principles:

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While I’ve not spent much time with it, I’ve recently become very interested in the Jerusalem Bible tradition of biblical translations. Considering this translation came about as a response to Divino afflante Spiritu & so originates in a solely Catholic initiative,2 the Jerusalem Bible strikes me as a quintessentially Catholic tradition of translation, produced during a period of renewal in Catholic theology.3 From what I understand (& in my own limited experience reading translations in this tradition) it enjoys a better reputation for its literary quality than, say, the New Revised Standard Version or the New American Bible (Revised Edition). Could the Revised New Jerusalem Bible be the end of my search for a preferred Bible translation?4

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I began to look more carefully at the RNJB I bought a year or two ago, & I wondered at how its translation compared to the NJB (whose literary quality & theological richness is celebrated). I especially wondered how the shift from the dynamic equivalence of the NJB (meaning-for-meaning) to the formal equivalence (word-for-word) of the RNJB affected the translation. So I decided to compare some passages.

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Genesis 1:1–3

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In the beginning God created heaven & earth.In the beginning God created heaven & earth.
Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with the spirit of God sweeping over the waters.
God said, ‘Let there be light,’ & there was light.God said, ‘Let there be light,’ & there was light.
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Yahweh then said, ‘I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying for help on account of their taskmasters. Yes, I am well aware of their sufferings.Then the LORD said, ‘I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying for help because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,
& I have come down to rescue them from the clutches of the Egyptians & bring them up out of that country, to a country rich & broad, to a country flowing with milk & honey, to the home of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites & the Jebusites.& I have come down to rescue them from the hands of the Egyptians & bring them up out of that land, to a land rich & broad, a land flowing with milk & honey, the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites & the Jebusites.
Yes indeed, the Israelites’ cry for help has reached me, & I have also seen the cruel way in which the Egyptians are oppressing them.Now see, the Israelites’ cry for help has reached me, & I have also seen the oppression which the Egyptians are inflicting upon them.
So now I am sending you to Pharaoh, for you to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.’So come now, I am sending you to Pharaoh, to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.’
Moses said to God, ‘Who am I to go to Pharaoh & bring the Israelites out of Egypt?’Moses said to God, ‘Who am I to go to Pharaoh, to bring the Israelites out of Egypt?’
‘I shall be with you,’ God said, ‘and this is the sign by which you will know that I was the one who sent you. After you have led the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.’God said, ‘I shall be with you, & this is the sign by which you will know that it was I who sent you. After you have led the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.’
Moses then said to God, ‘Look, if I go to the Israelites & say to them, “The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,” & they say to me, “What is his name?” what am I to tell them?’Moses then said to God, ‘Look, if I go to the Israelites & say to them, “The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,” & they say to me, “What is his name?”, what shall I say to them?’
God said to Moses, ‘I am he who is.’ & he said, ‘This is what you are to say to the Israelites, “I am has sent me to you.”’God said to Moses, ‘I am who I am.’ & he said, ‘This is what you are to say to the Israelites, “I am has sent me to you.”’
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Our Father in heaven, may your name be held holy,Our Father in heaven, may your name be held holy,
your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven those who are in debt to us.And forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors.
And do not put us to the test, but save us from the Evil One.And do not put us to the test, but save us from the Evil One.
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‘My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord‘My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour;and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon the humiliation of his servant. Yes, from now onwards all generations will call me blessed,since he has looked with favour on the lowliness of his servant. For see, from now on all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty has done great things for me. Holy is his name,for the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age to those who fear him.and his mercy is from generation to generation on those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm, he has routed the arrogant of heart.He has exerted the power of his arm, he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their heart.
He has pulled down princes from their thrones and raised high the lowly.He has taken down princes from thrones and raised up the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things, sent the rich away empty.He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help of Israel his servant, mindful of his faithful loveHe has come to the help of Israel his servant, in remembrance of his mercy,
—according to the promise he made to our ancestors—of his mercy to Abraham and to his descendants for ever.’according to the promise he made to our ancestors, of his mercy to Abraham and his descendants for ever.’
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In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God.In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things came into being, not one thing came into being except through him.Through him all things came into being, not one thing came into being except through him.
What has come into being in him was life, life that was the light of men;What has come into being in him was life, life that was the light of all people;
and light shines in darkness, and darkness could not overpower it.and light shines in darkness, and darkness could not overpower it.
The Word became flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that he has from the Father as only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.The Word became flesh and lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of an only-begotten Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
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For this is how God loved the world: he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
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Make your own the mind of Christ Jesus:Let the same mind be in you as was also in Christ Jesus:
Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped.Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped.
But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being,But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, born in human likeness, and found in human shape;
he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross.he humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, death on a cross.
And for this God raised him high, and gave him the name which is above all other names;And therefore God highly exalted him, and granted him the name above every name
so that all beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of Jesusso that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend of beings heavenly, earthly, and under the earth,
and that every tongue should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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Perpetua, Felicity, & the Roman empire

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- One of the particular challenges of teaching theology today—even to students who have some religious background—is the utter lack of theological formation most people in the United States receive. Some students may come in with some religious formation, in that they have participated in their church’s faith formation classes or even theology classes in a religious high school, but that formation tends to be more catechetical than theological. To oversimplify, catechesis provides a student with a religious community’s answers to theological questions, but it does not always provide the rationale for those answers. + Here I rank the Oscars nominees for Best Picture, from least favorite to favorite. Honestly this was a very good year for Best Picture nominees so it was hard ranking them. With the exception of my bottom 3 (I really did not care for any of those), I could very easily arrive at an entirely different ranking, depending on the day. +10. Maestro Everything about Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic just felt so effortful, especially the performances.
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- In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny & his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls “the pattern & prototype of all sin.” (Spoilers follow.) -Danny & Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old & working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications. + Today, on the feast of Saints Perpetua & Felicity, I thought about their martyrdom. The account of their martyrdom—most of which is written by Perpetua herself—is a witness not only to the victory of life over death upon which Christianity is founded, but also of resistance against imperial oppression. Indeed, it is precisely in their dying that Perpetua & Felicity overcome the death-dealing ways of the Roman empire. From Perpetua’s Passion:
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- Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: - Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. + One of the particular challenges of teaching theology today—even to students who have some religious background—is the utter lack of theological formation most people in the United States receive. Some students may come in with some religious formation, in that they have participated in their church’s faith formation classes or even theology classes in a religious high school, but that formation tends to be more catechetical than theological. To oversimplify, catechesis provides a student with a religious community’s answers to theological questions, but it does not always provide the rationale for those answers.
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- In which I read Bullshit Jobs: A Theory & Swimming in the Dark & Silence: A Novel & Way Back to God: The Spiritual Theology of St Bonaventure & Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World; & watched The Grapes of Wrath & May December & The Holdovers & The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes & Napoleon & The Muppets Christmas Carol & Home Alone & Poor Things & It’s a Wonderful Life & Saltburn & The Color Purple (2023). + In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny & his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls “the pattern & prototype of all sin.” (Spoilers follow.) +Danny & Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old & working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications.
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- Fiducia supplicans presents itself as “an innovative contribution to the pastoral meaning of blessings, permitting a broadening & enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings” (emphasis original). I have already said something about how this “innovation” might fit into a Catholic theological project, particularly where doctrinal development is concerned. I’d like now to comment more broadly on the document itself & what it has to say about blessings of couples. My main takeaway from Fiducia supplicans is that all persons & couples, including but not only those couples whose relationships do not conform to the church’s expectations, stand in need of God’s love & mercy, & so spontaneous, frequent, & abundant blessing of all persons & couples ought to be a regular feature of the church’s life as “sacrament of God’s infinite love” (§43). + Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: +Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M.
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The French Dominicans at the École Biblique in Jerusalem answered the call, publishing a French translation of the Bible—La Bible de Jérusalem—in 1956. + + + Best Picture nominees, ranked + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0310_oscars/ + Sun, 10 Mar 2024 08:29:12 -0500 + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0310_oscars/ + Here I rank the Oscars nominees for Best Picture, from least favorite to favorite. Honestly this was a very good year for Best Picture nominees so it was hard ranking them. With the exception of my bottom 3 (I really did not care for any of those), I could very easily arrive at an entirely different ranking, depending on the day. 10. Maestro Everything about Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic just felt so effortful, especially the performances. + Perpetua, Felicity, & the Roman empire http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0307_perpetua-felicity/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:26:00 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0307_perpetua-felicity/ Today, on the feast of Saints Perpetua & Felicity, I thought about their martyrdom. The account of their martyrdom—most of which is written by Perpetua herself—is a witness not only to the victory of life over death upon which Christianity is founded, but also of resistance against imperial oppression. Indeed, it is precisely in their dying that Perpetua & Felicity overcome the death-dealing ways of the Roman empire. From Perpetua’s Passion: - First things first http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0115_first-things-first/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:05:29 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0115_first-things-first/ One of the particular challenges of teaching theology today—even to students who have some religious background—is the utter lack of theological formation most people in the United States receive. Some students may come in with some religious formation, in that they have participated in their church’s faith formation classes or even theology classes in a religious high school, but that formation tends to be more catechetical than theological. To oversimplify, catechesis provides a student with a religious community’s answers to theological questions, but it does not always provide the rationale for those answers. - The pattern & prototype of all sin http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0113_pattern-prototype-of-all-sin/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 11:23:31 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0113_pattern-prototype-of-all-sin/ - In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny & his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls “the pattern & prototype of all sin.” (Spoilers follow.) -Danny & Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old & working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications. + In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny & his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls “the pattern & prototype of all sin.” (Spoilers follow.) Danny & Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old & working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications. - Top tens in 2023 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_top-tens/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:20:54 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_top-tens/ - Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: - Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. + Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. - Logbook—December 2023 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_logbook/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 10:18:10 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_logbook/ In which I read Bullshit Jobs: A Theory & Swimming in the Dark & Silence: A Novel & Way Back to God: The Spiritual Theology of St Bonaventure & Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World; & watched The Grapes of Wrath & May December & The Holdovers & The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes & Napoleon & The Muppets Christmas Carol & Home Alone & Poor Things & It’s a Wonderful Life & Saltburn & The Color Purple (2023). - Frequent & spontaneous blessing http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1229_frequent-spontaneous-blessing/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:24:32 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1229_frequent-spontaneous-blessing/ Fiducia supplicans presents itself as “an innovative contribution to the pastoral meaning of blessings, permitting a broadening & enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings” (emphasis original). I have already said something about how this “innovation” might fit into a Catholic theological project, particularly where doctrinal development is concerned. I’d like now to comment more broadly on the document itself & what it has to say about blessings of couples. My main takeaway from Fiducia supplicans is that all persons & couples, including but not only those couples whose relationships do not conform to the church’s expectations, stand in need of God’s love & mercy, & so spontaneous, frequent, & abundant blessing of all persons & couples ought to be a regular feature of the church’s life as “sacrament of God’s infinite love” (§43). - Why do we need the humanities if no one is majoring in them? http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231228_why-do-we-need-the-humanities/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:24:37 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231228_why-do-we-need-the-humanities/ - Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. - [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. - Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. + Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. - A new blog http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231227_a-new-blog/ Wed, 27 Dec 2023 08:00:00 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231227_a-new-blog/ When I started micro blogging in 2021, I never planned to do anything but that: micro blog. I’d tried to blog before—my first website was a static site generated by Jekyll—but it had never stuck. I liked the idea of instead having a fairly low-effort, ephemeral site: a blog populated with posts about what I’m reading, quotations I’m mulling over, even some pictures, etc. For a while that’s all I did with micro. - Fiducia supplicans & church teaching http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231223_fiducia-supplicans-church-teaching/ Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:33:05 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231223_fiducia-supplicans-church-teaching/ I’ve seen a fair amount of hand wringing over Fiducia supplicans where the consistency of church teaching & papal authority are concerned. The concern goes something like this: Fiducia supplicans, signed by Pope Francis, reaffirms the Catholic church’s historical teaching on marriage (as possible only between a woman & a man) while allowing for blessings of couples who do not conform to that teaching of marriage. This means the Catholic church will have to either forge ahead, perhaps revising its understanding of marriage to include partnerships between persons of the same gender, or pull back from Fiducia supplicans to reaffirm its historical understanding of marriage. - Venerable night: brilliant & solemn http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231204_venerable-night/ Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:00:00 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231204_venerable-night/ It was winter in Italy, eight hundred years ago, & Assisi’s poverello had an idea.1 Francis of Assisi had become obsessed with the words & deeds of Jesus Christ, his rustic parables & simple gestures that, despite (or perhaps because of) their lowliness, communicated divine majesty & awe. According to an early biographer,2 “so thoroughly did the humility of the incarnation & the charity of the passion occupy his memory that he scarcely wanted to think of anything else. - November 2023 logbook http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231130_logbook/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:38:35 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231130_logbook/ - In which I watched Killers of the Flower Moon, The Blair Witch Project, & The Killing of a Sacred Deer; & read Questioning God, Ways of Seeing, Revelations of Divine Love, & Julian of Norwich, Theologian. -Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023). What an amazing film. I don’t even want to say much about it here, because I know I can’t do it justice in the space of a short paragraph. + In which I watched Killers of the Flower Moon, The Blair Witch Project, & The Killing of a Sacred Deer; & read Questioning God, Ways of Seeing, Revelations of Divine Love, & Julian of Norwich, Theologian. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023). What an amazing film. I don’t even want to say much about it here, because I know I can’t do it justice in the space of a short paragraph. - October 2023 logbook http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231031_logbook/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:40:18 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231031_logbook/ - I thought it might be fun at the end of each month to list the movies I’d seen that month & some thoughts about each. -Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948). Jacqueline & I decided to watch some Hitchcock in honor of Halloween at the end of the month. We’ve seen a few Hitchcock already, but not Rope. I enjoyed it, though it’s not my favorite of his (that remains Psycho). I love good, long scenes, & Hitchcock’s clever camera work to make the entire film seem like a single take really ratchets up the tension. + I thought it might be fun at the end of each month to list the movies I’d seen that month & some thoughts about each. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948). Jacqueline & I decided to watch some Hitchcock in honor of Halloween at the end of the month. We’ve seen a few Hitchcock already, but not Rope. I enjoyed it, though it’s not my favorite of his (that remains Psycho). I love good, long scenes, & Hitchcock’s clever camera work to make the entire film seem like a single take really ratchets up the tension. - Writing assignments in Theology 101 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230903_writing-assignments-in-theology-101/ Sun, 03 Sep 2023 14:36:55 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230903_writing-assignments-in-theology-101/ - (Well, not quite Theology 101; rather, Theology & Franciscan Studies 101, which isn’t exactly an intro to theology.) -I’m finally getting close to a “final form” for my sections of “The Way of Francis & Clare.” The course schedule, including reading assignments, is mostly set, but what’s really tied together the entire course is the integration of a service learning project throughout the semester. -Throughout the semester, students take what they learn about Franciscan values to design, plan, & implement a service project that does some good for the local community. + (Well, not quite Theology 101; rather, Theology & Franciscan Studies 101, which isn’t exactly an intro to theology.) I’m finally getting close to a “final form” for my sections of “The Way of Francis & Clare.” The course schedule, including reading assignments, is mostly set, but what’s really tied together the entire course is the integration of a service learning project throughout the semester. Throughout the semester, students take what they learn about Franciscan values to design, plan, & implement a service project that does some good for the local community. - Barbenheimer http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230724_barbenheimer/ Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:35:24 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230724_barbenheimer/ - I really enjoyed both Barbie & Oppenheimer; I plan to see both again soon, but some initial thoughts: -Barbie is just so fun to watch, start to finish. The production design is stunningly detailed, the writing is weird & funny, & Ryan Gosling & Margot Robbie both deliver wonderful performances—Gosling’s wonderfully funny, & Robbie’s wonderfully subtle. Greta Gerwig adds another film to her already impressive body of work in this sensitive & delightful reflection on the human project of making meaning in the face of uncertainty & death. + I really enjoyed both Barbie & Oppenheimer; I plan to see both again soon, but some initial thoughts: Barbie is just so fun to watch, start to finish. The production design is stunningly detailed, the writing is weird & funny, & Ryan Gosling & Margot Robbie both deliver wonderful performances—Gosling’s wonderfully funny, & Robbie’s wonderfully subtle. Greta Gerwig adds another film to her already impressive body of work in this sensitive & delightful reflection on the human project of making meaning in the face of uncertainty & death. - On teaching Francis & Clare http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230623_on-teaching-francis-clare/ Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:08:58 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230623_on-teaching-francis-clare/ - How to teach a course on Francis & Clare of Assisi?1 The 101 class offered by the Department of Theology & Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University is titled “The Way of Francis & Clare.” This course aims to introduce students to the Franciscan roots that underlie the mission & values of SBU by a semester-long study of the lives & writings of Francis & Clare. -Teaching such a course is not without its challenges. + How to teach a course on Francis & Clare of Assisi?1 The 101 class offered by the Department of Theology & Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University is titled “The Way of Francis & Clare.” This course aims to introduce students to the Franciscan roots that underlie the mission & values of SBU by a semester-long study of the lives & writings of Francis & Clare. Teaching such a course is not without its challenges. - Reading Anselm http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230614_reading-anselm/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:33:33 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230614_reading-anselm/ I admire the aim in Elizabeth Johnson’s Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril: to produce a theology that considers how Jesus’s life, death, & resurrection are good news for the whole cosmos, particularly in the context of ecological crisis. & while I don’t disagree with some of the conclusions (presented chiefly in book 6), ironically the particularity of Jesus’s life (natal & risen) & his death don’t seem to determine the conclusions as much as the work’s title might lead one to expect. - Freely given & gratefully received http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230427_freely-given-gratefully-received/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:15:31 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230427_freely-given-gratefully-received/ - ‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ -‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ - This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. + ‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ ‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. - Love restores the world to order http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230423_love-restores-the-world-to-order/ Sun, 23 Apr 2023 14:32:17 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230423_love-restores-the-world-to-order/ - Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: - But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. + Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. - A few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of christianity http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230410_a-few-things-you-would-read/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:30:02 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230410_a-few-things-you-would-read/ - Inspired by Phil Christman’s recent post of the same name, here’s a list of a few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of Christianity. -Here’s Christman’s own disclaimer regarding his list, which I also make for my own: - This is not, by the way, a canon or an attempt at canon-making. It’s extremely personal, and reflects my personal circumstances, which are narrow, like everyone’s. + Inspired by Phil Christman’s recent post of the same name, here’s a list of a few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of Christianity. Here’s Christman’s own disclaimer regarding his list, which I also make for my own: This is not, by the way, a canon or an attempt at canon-making. It’s extremely personal, and reflects my personal circumstances, which are narrow, like everyone’s. - Reading in 2022 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20221231_reading-in-2022/ Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:17:41 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20221231_reading-in-2022/ - This year I read 63 books (actually a couple more, as there were some I didn’t log), & I tracked my reading with StoryGraph. This graph is so interesting; you can see the effect the fall & spring semesters have on my reading. -Some of the more engaging books I read this year include: - Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching. Mark D. Jordan. The Argonauts. Maggie Nelson. How to Be Normal. + This year I read 63 books (actually a couple more, as there were some I didn’t log), & I tracked my reading with StoryGraph. This graph is so interesting; you can see the effect the fall & spring semesters have on my reading. Some of the more engaging books I read this year include: Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching. Mark D. Jordan. The Argonauts. Maggie Nelson. How to Be Normal. Phil Christman. - A personal canon (in progress) http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20220530_personal-canon/ Mon, 30 May 2022 14:15:51 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20220530_personal-canon/ - Yesterday I saw a tweet floating around asking for your “personal canon,” that is, which are the books that you have used to understand the world? Limiting myself only to written works (and not, say, music or film), here’s what I would say, roughly ordered according to when I encountered these books: - The gospel according to Luke The book of Revelation A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury The Plague by Albert Camus The Prophets by Abraham J. + Yesterday I saw a tweet floating around asking for your “personal canon,” that is, which are the books that you have used to understand the world? Limiting myself only to written works (and not, say, music or film), here’s what I would say, roughly ordered according to when I encountered these books: The gospel according to Luke The book of Revelation A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury The Plague by Albert Camus The Prophets by Abraham J. - El víacrucis http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20210329_el-viacrucis/ Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:08:57 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20210329_el-viacrucis/ Holy Week of any year—that week of prayer & fasting ordered to the cross and, eventually, the empty tomb—always has a nearness to the first Holy Week, as the drama of the liturgy moves modern-day Christians through the drama of the passion. Holy Week 2020, however, seemed especially near. The reality of coronavirus was setting in, along with the bitter realization it would be a long time before we could safely gather with family, friends, & religious communities. - A Christmas tree blessing http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20201129_christmas-tree-blessing/ Sun, 29 Nov 2020 14:07:04 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20201129_christmas-tree-blessing/ - Good & gracious God, -you who are power & wisdom & goodness— -Bless this tree, -a sign of life & freshness & perseverance in our midst. -May it stand as a reminder -of light in the dark of night, -and of life in the dead of winter. -May its supple branches & sharp, sweet scent -keep fresh in our minds & our hands -the mercy & generosity you show -in all your dealings with your beloved people. + Good & gracious God, you who are power & wisdom & goodness— Bless this tree, a sign of life & freshness & perseverance in our midst. May it stand as a reminder of light in the dark of night, and of life in the dead of winter. May its supple branches & sharp, sweet scent keep fresh in our minds & our hands the mercy & generosity you show in all your dealings with your beloved people. - On baptism http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20200922_on-baptism/ Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:04:44 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20200922_on-baptism/ - Dear C—,1 -This past Sunday, on a cool & bright New York day with the edges of autumn just beginning to creep into the last days of summer, you were baptized. Like autumn into summer, you may find the fact of your baptism—something in which you had no say & of which you have no memory—creeping into your life in strange & unexpected ways; you may not know quite why you were baptized; you may wonder what the point of your baptism was at all. + Dear C—,1 This past Sunday, on a cool & bright New York day with the edges of autumn just beginning to creep into the last days of summer, you were baptized. Like autumn into summer, you may find the fact of your baptism—something in which you had no say & of which you have no memory—creeping into your life in strange & unexpected ways; you may not know quite why you were baptized; you may wonder what the point of your baptism was at all. - That attention is love http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20190518_that-attention-is-love/ Sat, 18 May 2019 13:30:14 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20190518_that-attention-is-love/ - In the very year of our engagement, Lady Bird was released. -Toward the end of this magnanimous film -the titular character meets with her English teacher, Sister Sarah Joan, -to discuss a short story she wrote for class. -That wise nun comments how clearly -Lady Bird’s love for Sacramento comes through, -much to Lady Bird’s—and the viewer’s—surprise. -Up till now we have seen Lady Bird straining -at the borders of her hometown + In the very year of our engagement, Lady Bird was released. 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- In which I watched Killers of the Flower Moon, The Blair Witch Project, & The Killing of a Sacred Deer; & read Questioning God, Ways of Seeing, Revelations of Divine Love, & Julian of Norwich, Theologian. -Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023). What an amazing film. I don’t even want to say much about it here, because I know I can’t do it justice in the space of a short paragraph. + I’ve seen a fair amount of hand wringing over Fiducia supplicans where the consistency of church teaching & papal authority are concerned. The concern goes something like this: Fiducia supplicans, signed by Pope Francis, reaffirms the Catholic church’s historical teaching on marriage (as possible only between a woman & a man) while allowing for blessings of couples who do not conform to that teaching of marriage. This means the Catholic church will have to either forge ahead, perhaps revising its understanding of marriage to include partnerships between persons of the same gender, or pull back from Fiducia supplicans to reaffirm its historical understanding of marriage.
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- I thought it might be fun at the end of each month to list the movies I’d seen that month & some thoughts about each. -Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948). Jacqueline & I decided to watch some Hitchcock in honor of Halloween at the end of the month. We’ve seen a few Hitchcock already, but not Rope. I enjoyed it, though it’s not my favorite of his (that remains Psycho). I love good, long scenes, & Hitchcock’s clever camera work to make the entire film seem like a single take really ratchets up the tension. + It was winter in Italy, eight hundred years ago, & Assisi’s poverello had an idea.1 Francis of Assisi had become obsessed with the words & deeds of Jesus Christ, his rustic parables & simple gestures that, despite (or perhaps because of) their lowliness, communicated divine majesty & awe. According to an early biographer,2 “so thoroughly did the humility of the incarnation & the charity of the passion occupy his memory that he scarcely wanted to think of anything else.
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- I really enjoyed both Barbie & Oppenheimer; I plan to see both again soon, but some initial thoughts: -Barbie is just so fun to watch, start to finish. The production design is stunningly detailed, the writing is weird & funny, & Ryan Gosling & Margot Robbie both deliver wonderful performances—Gosling’s wonderfully funny, & Robbie’s wonderfully subtle. Greta Gerwig adds another film to her already impressive body of work in this sensitive & delightful reflection on the human project of making meaning in the face of uncertainty & death. + I thought it might be fun at the end of each month to list the movies I’d seen that month & some thoughts about each. +Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948). Jacqueline & I decided to watch some Hitchcock in honor of Halloween at the end of the month. We’ve seen a few Hitchcock already, but not Rope. I enjoyed it, though it’s not my favorite of his (that remains Psycho). I love good, long scenes, & Hitchcock’s clever camera work to make the entire film seem like a single take really ratchets up the tension.
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- ‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ -‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ - This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. + How to teach a course on Francis & Clare of Assisi?1 The 101 class offered by the Department of Theology & Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University is titled “The Way of Francis & Clare.” This course aims to introduce students to the Franciscan roots that underlie the mission & values of SBU by a semester-long study of the lives & writings of Francis & Clare. +Teaching such a course is not without its challenges.
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Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: - But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. +But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual.
diff --git a/public/tags/christology/index.xml b/public/tags/christology/index.xml index e6973f1..7ac47db 100644 --- a/public/tags/christology/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/christology/index.xml @@ -1,39 +1,33 @@ - christology on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Christology on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/christology/ - Recent content in christology on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Christology on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:00:00 -0500 + Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:00:00 -0500 + Venerable night: brilliant & solemn http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231204_venerable-night/ Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:00:00 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231204_venerable-night/ It was winter in Italy, eight hundred years ago, & Assisi’s poverello had an idea.1 Francis of Assisi had become obsessed with the words & deeds of Jesus Christ, his rustic parables & simple gestures that, despite (or perhaps because of) their lowliness, communicated divine majesty & awe. According to an early biographer,2 “so thoroughly did the humility of the incarnation & the charity of the passion occupy his memory that he scarcely wanted to think of anything else. - Reading Anselm http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230614_reading-anselm/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:33:33 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230614_reading-anselm/ I admire the aim in Elizabeth Johnson’s Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril: to produce a theology that considers how Jesus’s life, death, & resurrection are good news for the whole cosmos, particularly in the context of ecological crisis. & while I don’t disagree with some of the conclusions (presented chiefly in book 6), ironically the particularity of Jesus’s life (natal & risen) & his death don’t seem to determine the conclusions as much as the work’s title might lead one to expect. - Love restores the world to order http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230423_love-restores-the-world-to-order/ Sun, 23 Apr 2023 14:32:17 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230423_love-restores-the-world-to-order/ - Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: - But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. + Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. - diff --git a/public/tags/christology/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/christology/page/1/index.html index e3cc2f1..d9a5d56 100644 --- a/public/tags/christology/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/christology/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/christology/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/christology/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/criticism/index.html b/public/tags/criticism/index.html index c0de22d..bfda4f7 100644 --- a/public/tags/criticism/index.html +++ b/public/tags/criticism/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -criticism · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Criticism · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,10 +20,35 @@
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‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ ‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ - This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. +This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights.
diff --git a/public/tags/criticism/index.xml b/public/tags/criticism/index.xml index d49986d..9e0506a 100644 --- a/public/tags/criticism/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/criticism/index.xml @@ -1,51 +1,47 @@ - criticism on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Criticism on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/criticism/ - Recent content in criticism on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Criticism on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Sat, 13 Jan 2024 11:23:31 -0500 + Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:37:12 -0400 + + + The New Jerusalem Bible & the Revised New Jerusalem Bible, compared + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0710_jerusalem-bibles/ + Wed, 10 Jul 2024 13:37:12 -0400 + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0710_jerusalem-bibles/ + In 1943, Pope Pius XII promulgated Divino afflante Spiritu, encouraging the translation of the Bible on the basis of original Hebrew & Greek texts. Prior to Divino afflante Spiritu the Latin Vulgate had served as the textual basis for Catholic translations of the Bible; this new directive from the pope inaugurated the modern era of Catholic biblical scholarship. The French Dominicans at the École Biblique in Jerusalem answered the call, publishing a French translation of the Bible—La Bible de Jérusalem—in 1956. + The pattern & prototype of all sin http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0113_pattern-prototype-of-all-sin/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 11:23:31 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0113_pattern-prototype-of-all-sin/ - In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny & his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls “the pattern & prototype of all sin.” (Spoilers follow.) -Danny & Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old & working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications. + In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny & his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls “the pattern & prototype of all sin.” (Spoilers follow.) Danny & Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old & working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications. - Barbenheimer http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230724_barbenheimer/ Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:35:24 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230724_barbenheimer/ - I really enjoyed both Barbie & Oppenheimer; I plan to see both again soon, but some initial thoughts: -Barbie is just so fun to watch, start to finish. The production design is stunningly detailed, the writing is weird & funny, & Ryan Gosling & Margot Robbie both deliver wonderful performances—Gosling’s wonderfully funny, & Robbie’s wonderfully subtle. Greta Gerwig adds another film to her already impressive body of work in this sensitive & delightful reflection on the human project of making meaning in the face of uncertainty & death. + I really enjoyed both Barbie & Oppenheimer; I plan to see both again soon, but some initial thoughts: Barbie is just so fun to watch, start to finish. The production design is stunningly detailed, the writing is weird & funny, & Ryan Gosling & Margot Robbie both deliver wonderful performances—Gosling’s wonderfully funny, & Robbie’s wonderfully subtle. Greta Gerwig adds another film to her already impressive body of work in this sensitive & delightful reflection on the human project of making meaning in the face of uncertainty & death. - Reading Anselm http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230614_reading-anselm/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:33:33 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230614_reading-anselm/ I admire the aim in Elizabeth Johnson’s Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril: to produce a theology that considers how Jesus’s life, death, & resurrection are good news for the whole cosmos, particularly in the context of ecological crisis. & while I don’t disagree with some of the conclusions (presented chiefly in book 6), ironically the particularity of Jesus’s life (natal & risen) & his death don’t seem to determine the conclusions as much as the work’s title might lead one to expect. - Freely given & gratefully received http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230427_freely-given-gratefully-received/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:15:31 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230427_freely-given-gratefully-received/ - ‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ -‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ - This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. + ‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ ‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. - diff --git a/public/tags/criticism/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/criticism/page/1/index.html index 8088de1..1f6227c 100644 --- a/public/tags/criticism/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/criticism/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/criticism/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/criticism/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/eschatology/index.html b/public/tags/eschatology/index.html index 9697384..f7283cc 100644 --- a/public/tags/eschatology/index.html +++ b/public/tags/eschatology/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -eschatology · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Eschatology · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ ‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ - This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. +This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights.
diff --git a/public/tags/eschatology/index.xml b/public/tags/eschatology/index.xml index 24961a7..7ad68d1 100644 --- a/public/tags/eschatology/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/eschatology/index.xml @@ -1,22 +1,19 @@ - eschatology on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Eschatology on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/eschatology/ - Recent content in eschatology on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Eschatology on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:15:31 -0500 + Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:15:31 -0500 + Freely given & gratefully received http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230427_freely-given-gratefully-received/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:15:31 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230427_freely-given-gratefully-received/ - ‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ -‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ - This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. + ‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ ‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. - diff --git a/public/tags/eschatology/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/eschatology/page/1/index.html index 09cc8a8..e6ed32d 100644 --- a/public/tags/eschatology/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/eschatology/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/eschatology/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/eschatology/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/film/index.html b/public/tags/film/index.html index 922f48d..e05fe8e 100644 --- a/public/tags/film/index.html +++ b/public/tags/film/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -film · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Film · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,10 +20,35 @@
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Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: - Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. +Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M.
diff --git a/public/tags/film/index.xml b/public/tags/film/index.xml index 9ec5f6b..fb8b10b 100644 --- a/public/tags/film/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/film/index.xml @@ -1,60 +1,54 @@ - film on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Film on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/film/ - Recent content in film on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Film on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:20:54 -0500 + Sun, 10 Mar 2024 08:29:12 -0500 + + + Best Picture nominees, ranked + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0310_oscars/ + Sun, 10 Mar 2024 08:29:12 -0500 + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0310_oscars/ + Here I rank the Oscars nominees for Best Picture, from least favorite to favorite. Honestly this was a very good year for Best Picture nominees so it was hard ranking them. With the exception of my bottom 3 (I really did not care for any of those), I could very easily arrive at an entirely different ranking, depending on the day. 10. Maestro Everything about Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic just felt so effortful, especially the performances. + Top tens in 2023 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_top-tens/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:20:54 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_top-tens/ - Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: - Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. + Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. - Logbook—December 2023 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_logbook/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 10:18:10 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_logbook/ In which I read Bullshit Jobs: A Theory & Swimming in the Dark & Silence: A Novel & Way Back to God: The Spiritual Theology of St Bonaventure & Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World; & watched The Grapes of Wrath & May December & The Holdovers & The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes & Napoleon & The Muppets Christmas Carol & Home Alone & Poor Things & It’s a Wonderful Life & Saltburn & The Color Purple (2023). - November 2023 logbook http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231130_logbook/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:38:35 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231130_logbook/ - In which I watched Killers of the Flower Moon, The Blair Witch Project, & The Killing of a Sacred Deer; & read Questioning God, Ways of Seeing, Revelations of Divine Love, & Julian of Norwich, Theologian. -Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023). What an amazing film. I don’t even want to say much about it here, because I know I can’t do it justice in the space of a short paragraph. + In which I watched Killers of the Flower Moon, The Blair Witch Project, & The Killing of a Sacred Deer; & read Questioning God, Ways of Seeing, Revelations of Divine Love, & Julian of Norwich, Theologian. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023). What an amazing film. I don’t even want to say much about it here, because I know I can’t do it justice in the space of a short paragraph. - October 2023 logbook http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231031_logbook/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:40:18 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231031_logbook/ - I thought it might be fun at the end of each month to list the movies I’d seen that month & some thoughts about each. -Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948). Jacqueline & I decided to watch some Hitchcock in honor of Halloween at the end of the month. We’ve seen a few Hitchcock already, but not Rope. I enjoyed it, though it’s not my favorite of his (that remains Psycho). I love good, long scenes, & Hitchcock’s clever camera work to make the entire film seem like a single take really ratchets up the tension. + I thought it might be fun at the end of each month to list the movies I’d seen that month & some thoughts about each. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948). Jacqueline & I decided to watch some Hitchcock in honor of Halloween at the end of the month. We’ve seen a few Hitchcock already, but not Rope. I enjoyed it, though it’s not my favorite of his (that remains Psycho). I love good, long scenes, & Hitchcock’s clever camera work to make the entire film seem like a single take really ratchets up the tension. - Barbenheimer http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230724_barbenheimer/ Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:35:24 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230724_barbenheimer/ - I really enjoyed both Barbie & Oppenheimer; I plan to see both again soon, but some initial thoughts: -Barbie is just so fun to watch, start to finish. The production design is stunningly detailed, the writing is weird & funny, & Ryan Gosling & Margot Robbie both deliver wonderful performances—Gosling’s wonderfully funny, & Robbie’s wonderfully subtle. Greta Gerwig adds another film to her already impressive body of work in this sensitive & delightful reflection on the human project of making meaning in the face of uncertainty & death. + I really enjoyed both Barbie & Oppenheimer; I plan to see both again soon, but some initial thoughts: Barbie is just so fun to watch, start to finish. The production design is stunningly detailed, the writing is weird & funny, & Ryan Gosling & Margot Robbie both deliver wonderful performances—Gosling’s wonderfully funny, & Robbie’s wonderfully subtle. 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diff --git a/public/tags/grace/index.xml b/public/tags/grace/index.xml index a60a714..9384da7 100644 --- a/public/tags/grace/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/grace/index.xml @@ -1,37 +1,26 @@ - grace on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Grace on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/grace/ - Recent content in grace on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Grace on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:24:32 -0500 + Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:24:32 -0500 + Frequent & spontaneous blessing http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1229_frequent-spontaneous-blessing/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:24:32 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1229_frequent-spontaneous-blessing/ Fiducia supplicans presents itself as “an innovative contribution to the pastoral meaning of blessings, permitting a broadening & enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings” (emphasis original). I have already said something about how this “innovation” might fit into a Catholic theological project, particularly where doctrinal development is concerned. I’d like now to comment more broadly on the document itself & what it has to say about blessings of couples. My main takeaway from Fiducia supplicans is that all persons & couples, including but not only those couples whose relationships do not conform to the church’s expectations, stand in need of God’s love & mercy, & so spontaneous, frequent, & abundant blessing of all persons & couples ought to be a regular feature of the church’s life as “sacrament of God’s infinite love” (§43). - That attention is love http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20190518_that-attention-is-love/ Sat, 18 May 2019 13:30:14 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20190518_that-attention-is-love/ - In the very year of our engagement, Lady Bird was released. -Toward the end of this magnanimous film -the titular character meets with her English teacher, Sister Sarah Joan, -to discuss a short story she wrote for class. -That wise nun comments how clearly -Lady Bird’s love for Sacramento comes through, -much to Lady Bird’s—and the viewer’s—surprise. -Up till now we have seen Lady Bird straining -at the borders of her hometown + In the very year of our engagement, Lady Bird was released. Toward the end of this magnanimous film the titular character meets with her English teacher, Sister Sarah Joan, to discuss a short story she wrote for class. That wise nun comments how clearly Lady Bird’s love for Sacramento comes through, much to Lady Bird’s—and the viewer’s—surprise. Up till now we have seen Lady Bird straining at the borders of her hometown - diff --git a/public/tags/grace/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/grace/page/1/index.html index 9875f8e..29e81eb 100644 --- a/public/tags/grace/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/grace/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/grace/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/grace/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/higher-education/index.html b/public/tags/higher-education/index.html index 91c7c68..9cdf4ea 100644 --- a/public/tags/higher-education/index.html +++ b/public/tags/higher-education/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -higher education · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Higher Education · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. - [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. - Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. +[Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. +Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts.
diff --git a/public/tags/higher-education/index.xml b/public/tags/higher-education/index.xml index 00ca4ba..56f9141 100644 --- a/public/tags/higher-education/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/higher-education/index.xml @@ -1,22 +1,19 @@ - higher education on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Higher Education on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/higher-education/ - Recent content in higher education on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Higher Education on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:24:37 -0500 + Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:24:37 -0500 + Why do we need the humanities if no one is majoring in them? http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231228_why-do-we-need-the-humanities/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:24:37 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231228_why-do-we-need-the-humanities/ - Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. - [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. - Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. + Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. - diff --git a/public/tags/higher-education/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/higher-education/page/1/index.html index 7986541..e0d055c 100644 --- a/public/tags/higher-education/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/higher-education/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/higher-education/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/higher-education/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/index.html b/public/tags/index.html index 680554d..bd9b793 100644 --- a/public/tags/index.html +++ b/public/tags/index.html @@ -23,151 +23,157 @@

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Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: - But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. +But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual.
diff --git a/public/tags/justice/index.xml b/public/tags/justice/index.xml index 320c212..2e0f617 100644 --- a/public/tags/justice/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/justice/index.xml @@ -1,77 +1,54 @@ - justice on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Justice on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/justice/ - Recent content in justice on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Justice on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:00:00 -0500 + Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:00:00 -0500 + Venerable night: brilliant & solemn http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231204_venerable-night/ Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:00:00 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231204_venerable-night/ It was winter in Italy, eight hundred years ago, & Assisi’s poverello had an idea.1 Francis of Assisi had become obsessed with the words & deeds of Jesus Christ, his rustic parables & simple gestures that, despite (or perhaps because of) their lowliness, communicated divine majesty & awe. According to an early biographer,2 “so thoroughly did the humility of the incarnation & the charity of the passion occupy his memory that he scarcely wanted to think of anything else. - Reading Anselm http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230614_reading-anselm/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:33:33 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230614_reading-anselm/ I admire the aim in Elizabeth Johnson’s Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril: to produce a theology that considers how Jesus’s life, death, & resurrection are good news for the whole cosmos, particularly in the context of ecological crisis. & while I don’t disagree with some of the conclusions (presented chiefly in book 6), ironically the particularity of Jesus’s life (natal & risen) & his death don’t seem to determine the conclusions as much as the work’s title might lead one to expect. - Love restores the world to order http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230423_love-restores-the-world-to-order/ Sun, 23 Apr 2023 14:32:17 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230423_love-restores-the-world-to-order/ - Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: - But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. + Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. - El víacrucis http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20210329_el-viacrucis/ Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:08:57 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20210329_el-viacrucis/ Holy Week of any year—that week of prayer & fasting ordered to the cross and, eventually, the empty tomb—always has a nearness to the first Holy Week, as the drama of the liturgy moves modern-day Christians through the drama of the passion. Holy Week 2020, however, seemed especially near. The reality of coronavirus was setting in, along with the bitter realization it would be a long time before we could safely gather with family, friends, & religious communities. - A Christmas tree blessing http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20201129_christmas-tree-blessing/ Sun, 29 Nov 2020 14:07:04 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20201129_christmas-tree-blessing/ - Good & gracious God, -you who are power & wisdom & goodness— -Bless this tree, -a sign of life & freshness & perseverance in our midst. -May it stand as a reminder -of light in the dark of night, -and of life in the dead of winter. -May its supple branches & sharp, sweet scent -keep fresh in our minds & our hands -the mercy & generosity you show -in all your dealings with your beloved people. + Good & gracious God, you who are power & wisdom & goodness— Bless this tree, a sign of life & freshness & perseverance in our midst. May it stand as a reminder of light in the dark of night, and of life in the dead of winter. May its supple branches & sharp, sweet scent keep fresh in our minds & our hands the mercy & generosity you show in all your dealings with your beloved people. - On baptism http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20200922_on-baptism/ Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:04:44 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20200922_on-baptism/ - Dear C—,1 -This past Sunday, on a cool & bright New York day with the edges of autumn just beginning to creep into the last days of summer, you were baptized. Like autumn into summer, you may find the fact of your baptism—something in which you had no say & of which you have no memory—creeping into your life in strange & unexpected ways; you may not know quite why you were baptized; you may wonder what the point of your baptism was at all. + Dear C—,1 This past Sunday, on a cool & bright New York day with the edges of autumn just beginning to creep into the last days of summer, you were baptized. Like autumn into summer, you may find the fact of your baptism—something in which you had no say & of which you have no memory—creeping into your life in strange & unexpected ways; you may not know quite why you were baptized; you may wonder what the point of your baptism was at all. - diff --git a/public/tags/justice/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/justice/page/1/index.html index 0b97631..1dda57d 100644 --- a/public/tags/justice/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/justice/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/justice/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/justice/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/literature/index.html b/public/tags/literature/index.html index b9ee16a..cf1de74 100644 --- a/public/tags/literature/index.html +++ b/public/tags/literature/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -literature · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Literature · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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Top tens in 2023

Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: - Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. +Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M.
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A few things you woul
Inspired by Phil Christman’s recent post of the same name, here’s a list of a few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of Christianity. Here’s Christman’s own disclaimer regarding his list, which I also make for my own: - This is not, by the way, a canon or an attempt at canon-making. It’s extremely personal, and reflects my personal circumstances, which are narrow, like everyone’s. +This is not, by the way, a canon or an attempt at canon-making. It’s extremely personal, and reflects my personal circumstances, which are narrow, like everyone’s.
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Reading in 2022

This year I read 63 books (actually a couple more, as there were some I didn’t log), & I tracked my reading with StoryGraph. This graph is so interesting; you can see the effect the fall & spring semesters have on my reading. Some of the more engaging books I read this year include: - Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching. Mark D. Jordan. The Argonauts. Maggie Nelson. How to Be Normal. +Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching. Mark D. Jordan. The Argonauts. Maggie Nelson. How to Be Normal. Phil Christman.
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A personal canon (in progress)
Yesterday I saw a tweet floating around asking for your “personal canon,” that is, which are the books that you have used to understand the world? Limiting myself only to written works (and not, say, music or film), here’s what I would say, roughly ordered according to when I encountered these books: - The gospel according to Luke The book of Revelation A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury The Plague by Albert Camus The Prophets by Abraham J. +The gospel according to Luke The book of Revelation A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury The Plague by Albert Camus The Prophets by Abraham J.
diff --git a/public/tags/literature/index.xml b/public/tags/literature/index.xml index a7dc646..9c332f6 100644 --- a/public/tags/literature/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/literature/index.xml @@ -1,82 +1,61 @@ - literature on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Literature on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/literature/ - Recent content in literature on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Literature on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:20:54 -0500 + Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:20:54 -0500 + Top tens in 2023 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_top-tens/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:20:54 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_top-tens/ - Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: - Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. + Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. - Logbook—December 2023 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_logbook/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 10:18:10 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_logbook/ In which I read Bullshit Jobs: A Theory & Swimming in the Dark & Silence: A Novel & Way Back to God: The Spiritual Theology of St Bonaventure & Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World; & watched The Grapes of Wrath & May December & The Holdovers & The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes & Napoleon & The Muppets Christmas Carol & Home Alone & Poor Things & It’s a Wonderful Life & Saltburn & The Color Purple (2023). - November 2023 logbook http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231130_logbook/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:38:35 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231130_logbook/ - In which I watched Killers of the Flower Moon, The Blair Witch Project, & The Killing of a Sacred Deer; & read Questioning God, Ways of Seeing, Revelations of Divine Love, & Julian of Norwich, Theologian. -Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023). What an amazing film. I don’t even want to say much about it here, because I know I can’t do it justice in the space of a short paragraph. + In which I watched Killers of the Flower Moon, The Blair Witch Project, & The Killing of a Sacred Deer; & read Questioning God, Ways of Seeing, Revelations of Divine Love, & Julian of Norwich, Theologian. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023). What an amazing film. I don’t even want to say much about it here, because I know I can’t do it justice in the space of a short paragraph. - October 2023 logbook http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231031_logbook/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:40:18 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231031_logbook/ - I thought it might be fun at the end of each month to list the movies I’d seen that month & some thoughts about each. -Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948). Jacqueline & I decided to watch some Hitchcock in honor of Halloween at the end of the month. We’ve seen a few Hitchcock already, but not Rope. I enjoyed it, though it’s not my favorite of his (that remains Psycho). I love good, long scenes, & Hitchcock’s clever camera work to make the entire film seem like a single take really ratchets up the tension. + I thought it might be fun at the end of each month to list the movies I’d seen that month & some thoughts about each. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948). Jacqueline & I decided to watch some Hitchcock in honor of Halloween at the end of the month. We’ve seen a few Hitchcock already, but not Rope. I enjoyed it, though it’s not my favorite of his (that remains Psycho). I love good, long scenes, & Hitchcock’s clever camera work to make the entire film seem like a single take really ratchets up the tension. - A few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of christianity http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230410_a-few-things-you-would-read/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:30:02 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230410_a-few-things-you-would-read/ - Inspired by Phil Christman’s recent post of the same name, here’s a list of a few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of Christianity. -Here’s Christman’s own disclaimer regarding his list, which I also make for my own: - This is not, by the way, a canon or an attempt at canon-making. It’s extremely personal, and reflects my personal circumstances, which are narrow, like everyone’s. + Inspired by Phil Christman’s recent post of the same name, here’s a list of a few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of Christianity. Here’s Christman’s own disclaimer regarding his list, which I also make for my own: This is not, by the way, a canon or an attempt at canon-making. It’s extremely personal, and reflects my personal circumstances, which are narrow, like everyone’s. - Reading in 2022 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20221231_reading-in-2022/ Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:17:41 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20221231_reading-in-2022/ - This year I read 63 books (actually a couple more, as there were some I didn’t log), & I tracked my reading with StoryGraph. This graph is so interesting; you can see the effect the fall & spring semesters have on my reading. -Some of the more engaging books I read this year include: - Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching. Mark D. Jordan. The Argonauts. Maggie Nelson. How to Be Normal. + This year I read 63 books (actually a couple more, as there were some I didn’t log), & I tracked my reading with StoryGraph. This graph is so interesting; you can see the effect the fall & spring semesters have on my reading. Some of the more engaging books I read this year include: Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching. Mark D. Jordan. The Argonauts. Maggie Nelson. How to Be Normal. Phil Christman. - A personal canon (in progress) http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20220530_personal-canon/ Mon, 30 May 2022 14:15:51 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20220530_personal-canon/ - Yesterday I saw a tweet floating around asking for your “personal canon,” that is, which are the books that you have used to understand the world? Limiting myself only to written works (and not, say, music or film), here’s what I would say, roughly ordered according to when I encountered these books: - The gospel according to Luke The book of Revelation A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury The Plague by Albert Camus The Prophets by Abraham J. + Yesterday I saw a tweet floating around asking for your “personal canon,” that is, which are the books that you have used to understand the world? Limiting myself only to written works (and not, say, music or film), here’s what I would say, roughly ordered according to when I encountered these books: The gospel according to Luke The book of Revelation A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury The Plague by Albert Camus The Prophets by Abraham J. - diff --git a/public/tags/literature/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/literature/page/1/index.html index fa657bb..128f1b9 100644 --- a/public/tags/literature/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/literature/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/literature/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/literature/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/logbook/index.html b/public/tags/logbook/index.html index dd1afc3..8aaa8e5 100644 --- a/public/tags/logbook/index.html +++ b/public/tags/logbook/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -logbook · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Logbook · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: - Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. +Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M.
diff --git a/public/tags/logbook/index.xml b/public/tags/logbook/index.xml index 23e3795..e1a4c5b 100644 --- a/public/tags/logbook/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/logbook/index.xml @@ -1,50 +1,40 @@ - logbook on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Logbook on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/logbook/ - Recent content in logbook on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Logbook on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:20:54 -0500 + Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:20:54 -0500 + Top tens in 2023 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_top-tens/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:20:54 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_top-tens/ - Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: - Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. + Here are the top 10 new-to-me books I read in 2023, in the order I read them: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, & Being, by M. Shawn Copeland Metamorphoses, by Ovid (translated by Stephanie McCarter) The Body of the Cross: Holy Victims & the Invention of the Atonement, by Travis E. Ables Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, & Radical Religion, by Gary Wills Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, by Daniel Sherrell Nothing Gained Is Eternal: A Theology of Tradition, by Anne M. - Logbook—December 2023 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_logbook/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 10:18:10 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1231_logbook/ In which I read Bullshit Jobs: A Theory & Swimming in the Dark & Silence: A Novel & Way Back to God: The Spiritual Theology of St Bonaventure & Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World; & watched The Grapes of Wrath & May December & The Holdovers & The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes & Napoleon & The Muppets Christmas Carol & Home Alone & Poor Things & It’s a Wonderful Life & Saltburn & The Color Purple (2023). - November 2023 logbook http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231130_logbook/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:38:35 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231130_logbook/ - In which I watched Killers of the Flower Moon, The Blair Witch Project, & The Killing of a Sacred Deer; & read Questioning God, Ways of Seeing, Revelations of Divine Love, & Julian of Norwich, Theologian. -Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023). What an amazing film. I don’t even want to say much about it here, because I know I can’t do it justice in the space of a short paragraph. + In which I watched Killers of the Flower Moon, The Blair Witch Project, & The Killing of a Sacred Deer; & read Questioning God, Ways of Seeing, Revelations of Divine Love, & Julian of Norwich, Theologian. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023). What an amazing film. I don’t even want to say much about it here, because I know I can’t do it justice in the space of a short paragraph. - October 2023 logbook http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231031_logbook/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:40:18 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231031_logbook/ - I thought it might be fun at the end of each month to list the movies I’d seen that month & some thoughts about each. -Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948). Jacqueline & I decided to watch some Hitchcock in honor of Halloween at the end of the month. We’ve seen a few Hitchcock already, but not Rope. I enjoyed it, though it’s not my favorite of his (that remains Psycho). I love good, long scenes, & Hitchcock’s clever camera work to make the entire film seem like a single take really ratchets up the tension. + I thought it might be fun at the end of each month to list the movies I’d seen that month & some thoughts about each. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948). Jacqueline & I decided to watch some Hitchcock in honor of Halloween at the end of the month. We’ve seen a few Hitchcock already, but not Rope. I enjoyed it, though it’s not my favorite of his (that remains Psycho). I love good, long scenes, & Hitchcock’s clever camera work to make the entire film seem like a single take really ratchets up the tension. - diff --git a/public/tags/logbook/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/logbook/page/1/index.html index 93d9a10..02435e8 100644 --- a/public/tags/logbook/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/logbook/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/logbook/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/logbook/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/love/index.html b/public/tags/love/index.html index 2cb0866..f0a817b 100644 --- a/public/tags/love/index.html +++ b/public/tags/love/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -love · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Love · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ ‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ - This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. +This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights.
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Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: - But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. +But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual.
diff --git a/public/tags/love/index.xml b/public/tags/love/index.xml index 8b90a47..9cb446f 100644 --- a/public/tags/love/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/love/index.xml @@ -1,58 +1,40 @@ - love on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Love on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/love/ - Recent content in love on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Love on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:24:32 -0500 + Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:24:32 -0500 + Frequent & spontaneous blessing http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1229_frequent-spontaneous-blessing/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:24:32 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1229_frequent-spontaneous-blessing/ Fiducia supplicans presents itself as “an innovative contribution to the pastoral meaning of blessings, permitting a broadening & enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings” (emphasis original). I have already said something about how this “innovation” might fit into a Catholic theological project, particularly where doctrinal development is concerned. I’d like now to comment more broadly on the document itself & what it has to say about blessings of couples. My main takeaway from Fiducia supplicans is that all persons & couples, including but not only those couples whose relationships do not conform to the church’s expectations, stand in need of God’s love & mercy, & so spontaneous, frequent, & abundant blessing of all persons & couples ought to be a regular feature of the church’s life as “sacrament of God’s infinite love” (§43). - Freely given & gratefully received http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230427_freely-given-gratefully-received/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:15:31 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230427_freely-given-gratefully-received/ - ‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ -‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ - This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. + ‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ ‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding Charity. Everything is here for the asking & nothing can be bought.’ This is one of my favorite exchanges in C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce. Here the “Big Man” (the first speaker) is insisting on his own decency in his earthly life—ironic considering the reader is introduced to the Big Man when he beats a man up to take his place in the line for the bus to Heaven—& how Heaven is therefore his “by rights. - Love restores the world to order http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230423_love-restores-the-world-to-order/ Sun, 23 Apr 2023 14:32:17 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230423_love-restores-the-world-to-order/ - Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: - But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. + Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. - That attention is love http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20190518_that-attention-is-love/ Sat, 18 May 2019 13:30:14 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20190518_that-attention-is-love/ - In the very year of our engagement, Lady Bird was released. -Toward the end of this magnanimous film -the titular character meets with her English teacher, Sister Sarah Joan, -to discuss a short story she wrote for class. -That wise nun comments how clearly -Lady Bird’s love for Sacramento comes through, -much to Lady Bird’s—and the viewer’s—surprise. -Up till now we have seen Lady Bird straining -at the borders of her hometown + In the very year of our engagement, Lady Bird was released. Toward the end of this magnanimous film the titular character meets with her English teacher, Sister Sarah Joan, to discuss a short story she wrote for class. That wise nun comments how clearly Lady Bird’s love for Sacramento comes through, much to Lady Bird’s—and the viewer’s—surprise. Up till now we have seen Lady Bird straining at the borders of her hometown - diff --git a/public/tags/love/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/love/page/1/index.html index 678e1ae..9ddab8c 100644 --- a/public/tags/love/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/love/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/love/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/love/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/marriage/index.html b/public/tags/marriage/index.html index 2d5a0e3..58ebf74 100644 --- a/public/tags/marriage/index.html +++ b/public/tags/marriage/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -marriage · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Marriage · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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diff --git a/public/tags/marriage/index.xml b/public/tags/marriage/index.xml index ebf2843..be0c02a 100644 --- a/public/tags/marriage/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/marriage/index.xml @@ -1,28 +1,19 @@ - marriage on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Marriage on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/marriage/ - Recent content in marriage on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Marriage on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Sat, 18 May 2019 13:30:14 -0500 + Sat, 18 May 2019 13:30:14 -0500 + That attention is love http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20190518_that-attention-is-love/ Sat, 18 May 2019 13:30:14 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20190518_that-attention-is-love/ - In the very year of our engagement, Lady Bird was released. -Toward the end of this magnanimous film -the titular character meets with her English teacher, Sister Sarah Joan, -to discuss a short story she wrote for class. -That wise nun comments how clearly -Lady Bird’s love for Sacramento comes through, -much to Lady Bird’s—and the viewer’s—surprise. -Up till now we have seen Lady Bird straining -at the borders of her hometown + In the very year of our engagement, Lady Bird was released. Toward the end of this magnanimous film the titular character meets with her English teacher, Sister Sarah Joan, to discuss a short story she wrote for class. That wise nun comments how clearly Lady Bird’s love for Sacramento comes through, much to Lady Bird’s—and the viewer’s—surprise. Up till now we have seen Lady Bird straining at the borders of her hometown - diff --git a/public/tags/marriage/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/marriage/page/1/index.html index 71adcea..5d4d287 100644 --- a/public/tags/marriage/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/marriage/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/marriage/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/marriage/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/martyrdom/index.html b/public/tags/martyrdom/index.html index 7fc7ad2..501ce64 100644 --- a/public/tags/martyrdom/index.html +++ b/public/tags/martyrdom/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -martyrdom · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Martyrdom · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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+ Here I rank the Oscars nominees for Best Picture, from least favorite to favorite. Honestly this was a very good year for Best Picture nominees so it was hard ranking them. With the exception of my bottom 3 (I really did not care for any of those), I could very easily arrive at an entirely different ranking, depending on the day. +10. Maestro Everything about Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic just felt so effortful, especially the performances. + +
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Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. - [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. - Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. +[Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. +Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts.
diff --git a/public/tags/opinion/index.xml b/public/tags/opinion/index.xml index ce75708..88764e2 100644 --- a/public/tags/opinion/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/opinion/index.xml @@ -1,31 +1,33 @@ - opinion on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Opinion on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/opinion/ - Recent content in opinion on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Opinion on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:24:32 -0500 + Sun, 10 Mar 2024 08:29:12 -0500 + + + Best Picture nominees, ranked + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0310_oscars/ + Sun, 10 Mar 2024 08:29:12 -0500 + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0310_oscars/ + Here I rank the Oscars nominees for Best Picture, from least favorite to favorite. Honestly this was a very good year for Best Picture nominees so it was hard ranking them. With the exception of my bottom 3 (I really did not care for any of those), I could very easily arrive at an entirely different ranking, depending on the day. 10. Maestro Everything about Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic just felt so effortful, especially the performances. + Frequent & spontaneous blessing http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1229_frequent-spontaneous-blessing/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:24:32 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2023/1229_frequent-spontaneous-blessing/ Fiducia supplicans presents itself as “an innovative contribution to the pastoral meaning of blessings, permitting a broadening & enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings” (emphasis original). I have already said something about how this “innovation” might fit into a Catholic theological project, particularly where doctrinal development is concerned. I’d like now to comment more broadly on the document itself & what it has to say about blessings of couples. My main takeaway from Fiducia supplicans is that all persons & couples, including but not only those couples whose relationships do not conform to the church’s expectations, stand in need of God’s love & mercy, & so spontaneous, frequent, & abundant blessing of all persons & couples ought to be a regular feature of the church’s life as “sacrament of God’s infinite love” (§43). - Why do we need the humanities if no one is majoring in them? http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231228_why-do-we-need-the-humanities/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:24:37 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231228_why-do-we-need-the-humanities/ - Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. - [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. - Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. + Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. - diff --git a/public/tags/opinion/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/opinion/page/1/index.html index 95e194a..321f837 100644 --- a/public/tags/opinion/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/opinion/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/opinion/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/opinion/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/prayer/index.html b/public/tags/prayer/index.html index e8a9056..18e16cf 100644 --- a/public/tags/prayer/index.html +++ b/public/tags/prayer/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -prayer · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Prayer · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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diff --git a/public/tags/prayer/index.xml b/public/tags/prayer/index.xml index 6191d4a..b3399f5 100644 --- a/public/tags/prayer/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/prayer/index.xml @@ -1,39 +1,26 @@ - prayer on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Prayer on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/prayer/ - Recent content in prayer on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Prayer on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:08:57 -0500 + Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:08:57 -0500 + El víacrucis http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20210329_el-viacrucis/ Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:08:57 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20210329_el-viacrucis/ Holy Week of any year—that week of prayer & fasting ordered to the cross and, eventually, the empty tomb—always has a nearness to the first Holy Week, as the drama of the liturgy moves modern-day Christians through the drama of the passion. Holy Week 2020, however, seemed especially near. The reality of coronavirus was setting in, along with the bitter realization it would be a long time before we could safely gather with family, friends, & religious communities. - A Christmas tree blessing http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20201129_christmas-tree-blessing/ Sun, 29 Nov 2020 14:07:04 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20201129_christmas-tree-blessing/ - Good & gracious God, -you who are power & wisdom & goodness— -Bless this tree, -a sign of life & freshness & perseverance in our midst. -May it stand as a reminder -of light in the dark of night, -and of life in the dead of winter. -May its supple branches & sharp, sweet scent -keep fresh in our minds & our hands -the mercy & generosity you show -in all your dealings with your beloved people. + Good & gracious God, you who are power & wisdom & goodness— Bless this tree, a sign of life & freshness & perseverance in our midst. May it stand as a reminder of light in the dark of night, and of life in the dead of winter. May its supple branches & sharp, sweet scent keep fresh in our minds & our hands the mercy & generosity you show in all your dealings with your beloved people. - diff --git a/public/tags/prayer/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/prayer/page/1/index.html index 588eb0a..d72de39 100644 --- a/public/tags/prayer/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/prayer/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/prayer/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/prayer/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/reflection/index.html b/public/tags/reflection/index.html index 8101f23..aa0668a 100644 --- a/public/tags/reflection/index.html +++ b/public/tags/reflection/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -reflection · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Reflection · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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Inspired by Phil Christman’s recent post of the same name, here’s a list of a few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of Christianity. Here’s Christman’s own disclaimer regarding his list, which I also make for my own: - This is not, by the way, a canon or an attempt at canon-making. It’s extremely personal, and reflects my personal circumstances, which are narrow, like everyone’s. +This is not, by the way, a canon or an attempt at canon-making. It’s extremely personal, and reflects my personal circumstances, which are narrow, like everyone’s.
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This year I read 63 books (actually a couple more, as there were some I didn’t log), & I tracked my reading with StoryGraph. This graph is so interesting; you can see the effect the fall & spring semesters have on my reading. Some of the more engaging books I read this year include: - Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching. Mark D. Jordan. The Argonauts. Maggie Nelson. How to Be Normal. +Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching. Mark D. Jordan. The Argonauts. Maggie Nelson. How to Be Normal. Phil Christman.
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Yesterday I saw a tweet floating around asking for your “personal canon,” that is, which are the books that you have used to understand the world? Limiting myself only to written works (and not, say, music or film), here’s what I would say, roughly ordered according to when I encountered these books: - The gospel according to Luke The book of Revelation A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury The Plague by Albert Camus The Prophets by Abraham J. +The gospel according to Luke The book of Revelation A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury The Plague by Albert Camus The Prophets by Abraham J.
diff --git a/public/tags/reflection/index.xml b/public/tags/reflection/index.xml index f96b983..fbaf614 100644 --- a/public/tags/reflection/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/reflection/index.xml @@ -1,82 +1,61 @@ - reflection on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Reflection on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/reflection/ - Recent content in reflection on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Reflection on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:05:29 -0500 + Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:05:29 -0500 + First things first http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0115_first-things-first/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:05:29 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0115_first-things-first/ One of the particular challenges of teaching theology today—even to students who have some religious background—is the utter lack of theological formation most people in the United States receive. Some students may come in with some religious formation, in that they have participated in their church’s faith formation classes or even theology classes in a religious high school, but that formation tends to be more catechetical than theological. To oversimplify, catechesis provides a student with a religious community’s answers to theological questions, but it does not always provide the rationale for those answers. - A new blog http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231227_a-new-blog/ Wed, 27 Dec 2023 08:00:00 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231227_a-new-blog/ When I started micro blogging in 2021, I never planned to do anything but that: micro blog. I’d tried to blog before—my first website was a static site generated by Jekyll—but it had never stuck. I liked the idea of instead having a fairly low-effort, ephemeral site: a blog populated with posts about what I’m reading, quotations I’m mulling over, even some pictures, etc. For a while that’s all I did with micro. - Writing assignments in Theology 101 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230903_writing-assignments-in-theology-101/ Sun, 03 Sep 2023 14:36:55 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230903_writing-assignments-in-theology-101/ - (Well, not quite Theology 101; rather, Theology & Franciscan Studies 101, which isn’t exactly an intro to theology.) -I’m finally getting close to a “final form” for my sections of “The Way of Francis & Clare.” The course schedule, including reading assignments, is mostly set, but what’s really tied together the entire course is the integration of a service learning project throughout the semester. -Throughout the semester, students take what they learn about Franciscan values to design, plan, & implement a service project that does some good for the local community. + (Well, not quite Theology 101; rather, Theology & Franciscan Studies 101, which isn’t exactly an intro to theology.) I’m finally getting close to a “final form” for my sections of “The Way of Francis & Clare.” The course schedule, including reading assignments, is mostly set, but what’s really tied together the entire course is the integration of a service learning project throughout the semester. Throughout the semester, students take what they learn about Franciscan values to design, plan, & implement a service project that does some good for the local community. - On teaching Francis & Clare http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230623_on-teaching-francis-clare/ Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:08:58 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230623_on-teaching-francis-clare/ - How to teach a course on Francis & Clare of Assisi?1 The 101 class offered by the Department of Theology & Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University is titled “The Way of Francis & Clare.” This course aims to introduce students to the Franciscan roots that underlie the mission & values of SBU by a semester-long study of the lives & writings of Francis & Clare. -Teaching such a course is not without its challenges. + How to teach a course on Francis & Clare of Assisi?1 The 101 class offered by the Department of Theology & Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University is titled “The Way of Francis & Clare.” This course aims to introduce students to the Franciscan roots that underlie the mission & values of SBU by a semester-long study of the lives & writings of Francis & Clare. Teaching such a course is not without its challenges. - A few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of christianity http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230410_a-few-things-you-would-read/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:30:02 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230410_a-few-things-you-would-read/ - Inspired by Phil Christman’s recent post of the same name, here’s a list of a few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of Christianity. -Here’s Christman’s own disclaimer regarding his list, which I also make for my own: - This is not, by the way, a canon or an attempt at canon-making. It’s extremely personal, and reflects my personal circumstances, which are narrow, like everyone’s. + Inspired by Phil Christman’s recent post of the same name, here’s a list of a few things you would read if you wanted to figure out what I get out of Christianity. Here’s Christman’s own disclaimer regarding his list, which I also make for my own: This is not, by the way, a canon or an attempt at canon-making. It’s extremely personal, and reflects my personal circumstances, which are narrow, like everyone’s. - Reading in 2022 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20221231_reading-in-2022/ Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:17:41 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20221231_reading-in-2022/ - This year I read 63 books (actually a couple more, as there were some I didn’t log), & I tracked my reading with StoryGraph. This graph is so interesting; you can see the effect the fall & spring semesters have on my reading. -Some of the more engaging books I read this year include: - Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching. Mark D. Jordan. The Argonauts. Maggie Nelson. How to Be Normal. + This year I read 63 books (actually a couple more, as there were some I didn’t log), & I tracked my reading with StoryGraph. This graph is so interesting; you can see the effect the fall & spring semesters have on my reading. Some of the more engaging books I read this year include: Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching. Mark D. Jordan. The Argonauts. Maggie Nelson. How to Be Normal. Phil Christman. - A personal canon (in progress) http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20220530_personal-canon/ Mon, 30 May 2022 14:15:51 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20220530_personal-canon/ - Yesterday I saw a tweet floating around asking for your “personal canon,” that is, which are the books that you have used to understand the world? Limiting myself only to written works (and not, say, music or film), here’s what I would say, roughly ordered according to when I encountered these books: - The gospel according to Luke The book of Revelation A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury The Plague by Albert Camus The Prophets by Abraham J. + Yesterday I saw a tweet floating around asking for your “personal canon,” that is, which are the books that you have used to understand the world? Limiting myself only to written works (and not, say, music or film), here’s what I would say, roughly ordered according to when I encountered these books: The gospel according to Luke The book of Revelation A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury The Plague by Albert Camus The Prophets by Abraham J. - diff --git a/public/tags/reflection/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/reflection/page/1/index.html index 153aa1e..86b7bbc 100644 --- a/public/tags/reflection/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/reflection/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/reflection/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/reflection/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/sin/index.html b/public/tags/sin/index.html index a035cdc..a7d67c3 100644 --- a/public/tags/sin/index.html +++ b/public/tags/sin/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -sin · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Sin · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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diff --git a/public/tags/sin/index.xml b/public/tags/sin/index.xml index d4330f9..84aa19b 100644 --- a/public/tags/sin/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/sin/index.xml @@ -1,21 +1,19 @@ - sin on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Sin on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/sin/ - Recent content in sin on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Sin on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Sat, 13 Jan 2024 11:23:31 -0500 + Sat, 13 Jan 2024 11:23:31 -0500 + The pattern & prototype of all sin http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0113_pattern-prototype-of-all-sin/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 11:23:31 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0113_pattern-prototype-of-all-sin/ - In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny & his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls “the pattern & prototype of all sin.” (Spoilers follow.) -Danny & Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old & working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications. + In the eighth episode of Beef, in one of a series of flashbacks filling in the backstories of the two beefing protagonists (or, better, the two antagonists), we see a particularly affecting scene between Danny & his younger brother, Paul that illustrates what Thomas Merton calls “the pattern & prototype of all sin.” (Spoilers follow.) Danny & Paul are at their parents’ motel: Danny is perhaps 20 or 21 years old & working as his parents’ handyman (contractor, he insists), while Paul, three years his junior, is preparing his college applications. - diff --git a/public/tags/sin/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/sin/page/1/index.html index a6854fa..7d4b525 100644 --- a/public/tags/sin/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/sin/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/sin/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/sin/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/soteriology/index.html b/public/tags/soteriology/index.html index 331a3e4..418549c 100644 --- a/public/tags/soteriology/index.html +++ b/public/tags/soteriology/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -soteriology · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Soteriology · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: - But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. +But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual.
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The account of their martyrdom—most of which is written by Perpetua herself—is a witness not only to the victory of life over death upon which Christianity is founded, but also of resistance against imperial oppression. Indeed, it is precisely in their dying that Perpetua & Felicity overcome the death-dealing ways of the Roman empire. From Perpetua’s Passion: - Fiducia supplicans & church teaching http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231223_fiducia-supplicans-church-teaching/ Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:33:05 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231223_fiducia-supplicans-church-teaching/ I’ve seen a fair amount of hand wringing over Fiducia supplicans where the consistency of church teaching & papal authority are concerned. The concern goes something like this: Fiducia supplicans, signed by Pope Francis, reaffirms the Catholic church’s historical teaching on marriage (as possible only between a woman & a man) while allowing for blessings of couples who do not conform to that teaching of marriage. This means the Catholic church will have to either forge ahead, perhaps revising its understanding of marriage to include partnerships between persons of the same gender, or pull back from Fiducia supplicans to reaffirm its historical understanding of marriage. - Venerable night: brilliant & solemn http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231204_venerable-night/ Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:00:00 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231204_venerable-night/ It was winter in Italy, eight hundred years ago, & Assisi’s poverello had an idea.1 Francis of Assisi had become obsessed with the words & deeds of Jesus Christ, his rustic parables & simple gestures that, despite (or perhaps because of) their lowliness, communicated divine majesty & awe. According to an early biographer,2 “so thoroughly did the humility of the incarnation & the charity of the passion occupy his memory that he scarcely wanted to think of anything else. - Love restores the world to order http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230423_love-restores-the-world-to-order/ Sun, 23 Apr 2023 14:32:17 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230423_love-restores-the-world-to-order/ - Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: - But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. + Walter Kasper on kingdom of God: But when the ultimate source of all reality, God’s love, re-establishes itself and comes to power, the world is restored to order and salvation. Because each individual can feel himself accepted and approved without reserve, he becomes free to live with others. The coming of the Kingdom of God’s love therefore means the salvation of the world as a whole and the salvation of every individual. - El víacrucis http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20210329_el-viacrucis/ Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:08:57 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20210329_el-viacrucis/ Holy Week of any year—that week of prayer & fasting ordered to the cross and, eventually, the empty tomb—always has a nearness to the first Holy Week, as the drama of the liturgy moves modern-day Christians through the drama of the passion. Holy Week 2020, however, seemed especially near. The reality of coronavirus was setting in, along with the bitter realization it would be a long time before we could safely gather with family, friends, & religious communities. - A Christmas tree blessing http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20201129_christmas-tree-blessing/ Sun, 29 Nov 2020 14:07:04 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20201129_christmas-tree-blessing/ - Good & gracious God, -you who are power & wisdom & goodness— -Bless this tree, -a sign of life & freshness & perseverance in our midst. -May it stand as a reminder -of light in the dark of night, -and of life in the dead of winter. -May its supple branches & sharp, sweet scent -keep fresh in our minds & our hands -the mercy & generosity you show -in all your dealings with your beloved people. + Good & gracious God, you who are power & wisdom & goodness— Bless this tree, a sign of life & freshness & perseverance in our midst. May it stand as a reminder of light in the dark of night, and of life in the dead of winter. May its supple branches & sharp, sweet scent keep fresh in our minds & our hands the mercy & generosity you show in all your dealings with your beloved people. - On baptism http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20200922_on-baptism/ Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:04:44 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20200922_on-baptism/ - Dear C—,1 -This past Sunday, on a cool & bright New York day with the edges of autumn just beginning to creep into the last days of summer, you were baptized. Like autumn into summer, you may find the fact of your baptism—something in which you had no say & of which you have no memory—creeping into your life in strange & unexpected ways; you may not know quite why you were baptized; you may wonder what the point of your baptism was at all. + Dear C—,1 This past Sunday, on a cool & bright New York day with the edges of autumn just beginning to creep into the last days of summer, you were baptized. Like autumn into summer, you may find the fact of your baptism—something in which you had no say & of which you have no memory—creeping into your life in strange & unexpected ways; you may not know quite why you were baptized; you may wonder what the point of your baptism was at all. - That attention is love http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20190518_that-attention-is-love/ Sat, 18 May 2019 13:30:14 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20190518_that-attention-is-love/ - In the very year of our engagement, Lady Bird was released. -Toward the end of this magnanimous film -the titular character meets with her English teacher, Sister Sarah Joan, -to discuss a short story she wrote for class. -That wise nun comments how clearly -Lady Bird’s love for Sacramento comes through, -much to Lady Bird’s—and the viewer’s—surprise. -Up till now we have seen Lady Bird straining -at the borders of her hometown + In the very year of our engagement, Lady Bird was released. Toward the end of this magnanimous film the titular character meets with her English teacher, Sister Sarah Joan, to discuss a short story she wrote for class. That wise nun comments how clearly Lady Bird’s love for Sacramento comes through, much to Lady Bird’s—and the viewer’s—surprise. 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Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. - [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. - Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. +[Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. +Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts.
diff --git a/public/tags/teaching/index.xml b/public/tags/teaching/index.xml index cd8770d..0ef1c59 100644 --- a/public/tags/teaching/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/teaching/index.xml @@ -1,52 +1,40 @@ - teaching on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Teaching on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/teaching/ - Recent content in teaching on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Teaching on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:05:29 -0500 + Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:05:29 -0500 + First things first http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0115_first-things-first/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:05:29 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/2024/0115_first-things-first/ One of the particular challenges of teaching theology today—even to students who have some religious background—is the utter lack of theological formation most people in the United States receive. Some students may come in with some religious formation, in that they have participated in their church’s faith formation classes or even theology classes in a religious high school, but that formation tends to be more catechetical than theological. To oversimplify, catechesis provides a student with a religious community’s answers to theological questions, but it does not always provide the rationale for those answers. - Why do we need the humanities if no one is majoring in them? http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231228_why-do-we-need-the-humanities/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:24:37 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231228_why-do-we-need-the-humanities/ - Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. - [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. - Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. + Clarkson University announces plan to phase out majors in humanities, communications. [Kelly] Chezum [Clarkson’s vice president for external relations] said the university has always been focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The nine majors being phased out — social documentation, history, literature, sociology, film, political science, digital arts and sciences, communications and media, and interdisciplinary liberal studies and humanities — represent less than 2% of students. Very often when programs in the humanities are cut, the cuts are justified—explicitly or not—by pointing out how few students will be affected by these cuts. - Writing assignments in Theology 101 http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230903_writing-assignments-in-theology-101/ Sun, 03 Sep 2023 14:36:55 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230903_writing-assignments-in-theology-101/ - (Well, not quite Theology 101; rather, Theology & Franciscan Studies 101, which isn’t exactly an intro to theology.) -I’m finally getting close to a “final form” for my sections of “The Way of Francis & Clare.” The course schedule, including reading assignments, is mostly set, but what’s really tied together the entire course is the integration of a service learning project throughout the semester. -Throughout the semester, students take what they learn about Franciscan values to design, plan, & implement a service project that does some good for the local community. + (Well, not quite Theology 101; rather, Theology & Franciscan Studies 101, which isn’t exactly an intro to theology.) I’m finally getting close to a “final form” for my sections of “The Way of Francis & Clare.” The course schedule, including reading assignments, is mostly set, but what’s really tied together the entire course is the integration of a service learning project throughout the semester. Throughout the semester, students take what they learn about Franciscan values to design, plan, & implement a service project that does some good for the local community. - On teaching Francis & Clare http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230623_on-teaching-francis-clare/ Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:08:58 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20230623_on-teaching-francis-clare/ - How to teach a course on Francis & Clare of Assisi?1 The 101 class offered by the Department of Theology & Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University is titled “The Way of Francis & Clare.” This course aims to introduce students to the Franciscan roots that underlie the mission & values of SBU by a semester-long study of the lives & writings of Francis & Clare. -Teaching such a course is not without its challenges. + How to teach a course on Francis & Clare of Assisi?1 The 101 class offered by the Department of Theology & Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University is titled “The Way of Francis & Clare.” This course aims to introduce students to the Franciscan roots that underlie the mission & values of SBU by a semester-long study of the lives & writings of Francis & Clare. 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diff --git a/public/tags/tradition/index.xml b/public/tags/tradition/index.xml index 0725291..82b27b7 100644 --- a/public/tags/tradition/index.xml +++ b/public/tags/tradition/index.xml @@ -1,20 +1,19 @@ - tradition on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Tradition on speculatio pauperis in deserto http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/tradition/ - Recent content in tradition on speculatio pauperis in deserto + Recent content in Tradition on speculatio pauperis in deserto Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us - Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:33:05 -0500 + Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:33:05 -0500 + Fiducia supplicans & church teaching http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231223_fiducia-supplicans-church-teaching/ Sat, 23 Dec 2023 11:33:05 -0500 - http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/posts/20231223_fiducia-supplicans-church-teaching/ I’ve seen a fair amount of hand wringing over Fiducia supplicans where the consistency of church teaching & papal authority are concerned. The concern goes something like this: Fiducia supplicans, signed by Pope Francis, reaffirms the Catholic church’s historical teaching on marriage (as possible only between a woman & a man) while allowing for blessings of couples who do not conform to that teaching of marriage. This means the Catholic church will have to either forge ahead, perhaps revising its understanding of marriage to include partnerships between persons of the same gender, or pull back from Fiducia supplicans to reaffirm its historical understanding of marriage. - diff --git a/public/tags/tradition/page/1/index.html b/public/tags/tradition/page/1/index.html index 75979af..ba30c2d 100644 --- a/public/tags/tradition/page/1/index.html +++ b/public/tags/tradition/page/1/index.html @@ -1 +1,10 @@ -http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/tradition/ \ No newline at end of file + + + + http://blog.andrewbelfield.com/tags/tradition/ + + + + + + diff --git a/public/tags/tv/index.html b/public/tags/tv/index.html index 7594641..0e1cff3 100644 --- a/public/tags/tv/index.html +++ b/public/tags/tv/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -tv · speculatio pauperis in deserto +Tv · speculatio pauperis in deserto @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
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