"Virtue" and Its Many Senses in the Divine Liturgy
Today is March 26, 2025, Wednesday during the Fourth Week of Lent.
26 Mar 2025 11:40
Today is March 26, 2025, Wednesday during the Fourth Week of Lent.
1 Mar 2024 07:51
What is "Lectio Divina" and what does it have to offer us that differs from "Bible Study"?
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"This is Water" by David Foster Wallace speech transcript (jamesclear.com)
Blog Agenda for 2024-26:
PRIMARY TASKS:
Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars [Tracking Sections on Language, Signs, and the Literary, etc. and placing within wider context of Aquinas' Work and Thought on Foundational Theology and Biblical Commentary.]
Denis the Carthusian's Commentaries on the Psalms [Attention paid to the Divine Office, w/ Gueranger, Liguori, & Other Authorities, alongside the Four Modes of Interpretation]
Gracian's "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" (read against Liguori's "Moral Theology")
Vico's The New Science [Tracking Sections on Rhetoric and Its Historico-Metaphysical Significance in relation to Jurisprudence and Natural Law]
LESSER TASKS:
Review of 20th-C. Classics in Literary Criticism (prior to the "Postmodern" turn, ca. 1968)
A Selection:
Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature.
Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination.
Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations.
Brooks, Cleanth. The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry.
Empson, William. Seven Types of Ambiguity
Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp.
Ricks, Christopher. The Force of Poetry.
Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy [N.B.: Technically, a 19th century work, but authoritative well into the 20th-c!]
Babbit, Irving. Democracy and Leadership [N.B.: Technically, a work of "cultural criticism", but composed by a literary scholar].
Bennett, Arnold. Literary Taste: How to Form it
Plato's Republic vs. Laws [Contemplation on Rationalism vs. Traditionalism] alongside Jose Manuel Peramas' A Treatise on the Guaraní System of Government in Comparison with Plato’s Republic (1793)
What does it mean to be a "man of letters"?: The Life of Johnson (Unabridged)
Virgil's Aeneid and the Thematic Virtue of Pietas
Occasional Musings on Gueranger's "Liturgical Year" alongside the Daily Missal and Monastic Breviary, etc.
Lectio Divina engagements with Holy Writ in alignment with the liturgical calendar, w/ reference to Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen's "Divine Intimacy" (!)