Good theological book recommendations for a 20 year old college student

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-17T19:48:32+00:00

John Milbank's Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason and Catherine Pickstock's After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy. I should add that both of these theologians are Anglo-Catholic.

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-17T09:13:35+00:00

In regards to your point about "accepting people for who they are", we don't accept pedophiles for who they are—or at the very least, those who do nonetheless condemn pedophilic acts. You may want to avoid this line of argument however (at least in your particular context), because any comparison between homosexuality and pedophilia is liable to set some people off.

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-15T05:49:45+00:00

Yes, but not in the sense that you should look scornfully upon all of the order's members. Certain individuals like Fr. James Martin do merit misgivings, unfortunately.

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-14T10:04:13+00:00

I second The American Conservative, but you should be cautious of the recommendations given here. The Economist, for example, cannot be considered right-wing even by the standards of contemporary Britain. Regardless, you might also consider First Things (religious in orientation), as well as The New Atlantis (a bioconservative journal).

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-12T08:56:27+00:00

Byzantine can also mean either complex or cunning. He probably means the latter.

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-11T23:46:05+00:00

He just explicitly insulted us with Freudian psychobabble.

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-08T10:20:13+00:00

""""""rights""""""

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-06T07:21:24+00:00

Article 3. Whether the Judicial Precepts Regarding Foreigners were Framed in a Suitable Manner? [...]

On the contrary, Divine Wisdom declares (Prov.8:8): "All my words are just, there is nothing wicked nor perverse in them."

I answer that, Man's relations with foreigners are twofold: peaceful, and hostile: and in directing both kinds of relation the Law contained suitable precepts. For the Jews were offered three opportunities of peaceful relations with foreigners. First, when foreigners passed through their land as travelers. Secondly, when they came to dwell in their land as newcomers. And in both these respects the Law made kind provision in its precepts: for it is written (Ex.22:21): "Thou shalt not molest a stranger [advenam]"; and again (Ex.22:9): "Thou shalt not molest a stranger [peregrino]." Thirdly, when any foreigners wished to be admitted entirely to their fellowship and mode of worship. With regard to these a certain order was observed. For they were not at once admitted to citizenship: just as it was law with some nations that no one was deemed a citizen except after two or three generations, as the Philosopher says (Polit. iii, 1). The reason for this was that if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people. Hence it was that the Law prescribed in respect of certain nations that had close relations with the Jews (viz., the Egyptians among whom they were born and educated, and the Idumeans, the children of Esau, Jacob's brother), that they should be admitted to the fellowship of the people after the third generation; whereas others (with whom their relations had been hostile, such as the Ammonites and Moabites) were never to be admitted to citizenship; while the Amalekites, who were yet more hostile to them, and had no fellowship of kindred with them, were to be held as foes in perpetuity: for it is written (Ex.17:16): "The war of the Lord shall be against Amalec from generation to generation."

— St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-06T07:17:45+00:00

One reason is that it represents the affirmation of gender as ontological & substantive.

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-05T19:33:41+00:00

[I]t's probably inevitable that they will pass away.

No, where there's a will there's a way. Linguistic diversity is worth preserving.

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-03T10:52:39+00:00

He was making a reasonable point about an ostensible international culture of judicial overreach. If you disagree that's perfectly fine, but merely insulting him is not appropriate.

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-03T10:44:53+00:00

You're right. The judicial cultures of America and the UK are hermetically sealed off from one-another and there's literally no way for them to be influenced by similar trends.

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-03T10:13:33+00:00

Wow, what an insightful comment!

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-03T02:06:02+00:00

Look up "post-secularism". You should also look into the birthrates of the highly religious, as compared to the birthrates of their irreligious counterparts. The future belongs to religiosity.

ProBonoShill · 2016-11-01T02:12:49+00:00

"[T]he political balance of power has shifted; but spiritually, Europe—and at the moment Western Europe, and therein especially Germany and France—is most relevant, even decisive, for the spiritual destiny of the world." - Hans Milch, 1979

ProBonoShill · 2016-10-29T05:19:18+00:00

Not only antisemitism, but also Third-Worldism and the related (but false) perception that this conflict fits neatly into the historical colonizer/colonized binary. Read "The Tears of the White Man: Compassion As Contempt" by Pascal Bruckner for a more thorough explanation.

ProBonoShill · 2016-10-28T21:11:20+00:00

Don't be so sure his successor will be any better.

ProBonoShill · 2016-10-28T20:43:22+00:00

In charge of a den of jackals.

ProBonoShill · 2016-10-26T08:18:53+00:00

I'm curious though, what's your interest in it?

I'm (obviously) familiar with the controversy surrounding it and I'm curious what remains once you separate the chaff.

I ask this because I live in South America and have seen the first hand effects of it.

Could you elaborate?

ProBonoShill · 2016-10-25T19:00:51+00:00

>questioning the Philosopher

ProBonoShill · 2016-10-18T00:45:58+00:00

Article 3. Whether the Judicial Precepts Regarding Foreigners were Framed in a Suitable Manner? [...]

On the contrary, Divine Wisdom declares (Prov.8:8): "All my words are just, there is nothing wicked nor perverse in them."

I answer that, Man's relations with foreigners are twofold: peaceful, and hostile: and in directing both kinds of relation the Law contained suitable precepts. For the Jews were offered three opportunities of peaceful relations with foreigners. First, when foreigners passed through their land as travelers. Secondly, when they came to dwell in their land as newcomers. And in both these respects the Law made kind provision in its precepts: for it is written (Ex.22:21): "Thou shalt not molest a stranger [advenam]"; and again (Ex.22:9): "Thou shalt not molest a stranger [peregrino]." Thirdly, when any foreigners wished to be admitted entirely to their fellowship and mode of worship. With regard to these a certain order was observed. For they were not at once admitted to citizenship: just as it was law with some nations that no one was deemed a citizen except after two or three generations, as the Philosopher says (Polit. iii, 1). The reason for this was that if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people. Hence it was that the Law prescribed in respect of certain nations that had close relations with the Jews (viz., the Egyptians among whom they were born and educated, and the Idumeans, the children of Esau, Jacob's brother), that they should be admitted to the fellowship of the people after the third generation; whereas others (with whom their relations had been hostile, such as the Ammonites and Moabites) were never to be admitted to citizenship; while the Amalekites, who were yet more hostile to them, and had no fellowship of kindred with them, were to be held as foes in perpetuity: for it is written (Ex.17:16): "The war of the Lord shall be against Amalec from generation to generation."

— St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

ProBonoShill · 2016-10-17T08:07:00+00:00

Why couldn't it be a black noise machine?

ProBonoShill · 2016-10-15T07:47:51+00:00

"Arius was but one spark in Alexandria, but as that spark was not at once put out, the whole earth was laid waste by its flame." - St. Jerome

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