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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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In terms of mediæval history, there is so much of it, in so many places and of such widely varying character that it would be hard not to find some aspect of it that would not be attractive. The glories of the 12th and 13th centuries are well known; but I believe that there are aspects of the much-maligned 14th and 15th, as in Scotland, Poland, Bohemia, and the „Ordensstaat‟ of the Teutonic Knights, that are splendid signs of a highly sophisticated European civilization, showing the unity of the Roman Catholic faith underlying its national variations.
I notice one author missing from your list of favorites whom I feel emboldened to recommend. If you have not read the works of Dorothy L. Sayers, I can strongly recommend them—particularly her “The Mind of the Maker” and her papers on Dante. Sayers was a friend and fellow lay apologist of both Lewis and Chesterton, and indeed succeeded the latter (at one remove) as President of the Detection Club.
In fine, let me praise and thank you for your art and your even more inspiring faith. All the best to you and those whom you love. I will take pleasure in saying a rosary for you in this Holy Week.
I do hope you have a chance to read some of Sayers’ works (and as good as her mystery stories were, I like her literary/theological observations even more). Just to give you a taste, here is a paragraph or two from her 1940 essay, “What Do We Believe?” (collected in Unpopular Opinions (1946)):
“I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things. That is the thundering assertion with which we start: that the great fundamental quality that makes God, and us with Him, what we are is creative activity. After this, we can scarcely pretend that there I anything negative, static, or sedative about the Christian religion. ‘In the beginning God created’; from everlasting to everlasting, He is God the Father and Maker. And, by implication, man is most god-like and most himself when he is occupied in creation. And by this statement we assert further that the will and power to make is an absolute value, the ultimate good-in-itself, self-justified, and self-explanatory.
“How far can we check this assertion as it concerns ourselves? The men who create with their minds and those who create (not merely labour) with their hands will, I think, agree that their periods of creative activity are those in which they feel right with themselves and the world. And those who bring life into the world will tell you the same thing. There is a psychological theory that artistic creation is merely a ‘compensation’ for the frustration of sexual creativeness; but it is more probable that the making of life is only one manifestation of the universal urge to create. Our worst trouble to-day is our feeble hold on creation. To sit down and let ourselves be spoon-fed with the ready-made is to lose grip on our only true life and our only real selves.”
For example, I don't agree with the Catholic Church's teaching of transubstantiation.
What do you think?
Though I am not Catholic, I am Christian (of a denomination more conservative than Catholicism lol) but I've always been fascinated by the Catholic history, particularly their art and music. Definitely in theology.
Anyways, I wanted to thank you for the encouragement your page provided me and wish you and your family the best