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KJV: keeping the idiom of poetic archaism
The war against the English language. One of the great signs of disintegration of the language has been the devolution of the Bible. In the early 1960′s the New testament section of the New English Bible appeared, which was the … Continue reading
those heretics: searching for the kingdom of saints
Mysticism, whether heretical or not, is often the refuge of defeated radicalism.Messianist German Anabaptists would become pacifist, mystical Mennonites, and the messianic English “Fifth Monarchy Men” would become pacifist, mystical Quakers. The wild millenarians, The Seers; there is no shortage … Continue reading
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Tagged Albigensian Church, Arnold of Brescia, brenda zlamany, English Fifth Monarchy Men, Joachim of Floris, John Milton, John of Leiden, John Wycliffe, Lollard Revolt, Marcel Duchamp, Mergery Kempe, Peter Waldo, Richard Rolle, Roger Waters Separation Wall, Ruysbroeck, Sami Michael, Steven Plaut, the Umiliati, The Waldenses, Thomas a Kempis
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free choice: and there was one not three?
Goethe was enchanted by Gottfried Arnold’s “The Impartial History of the Church and the Heretics,” writing, ” that every man in the end came to have his own religion, and now it seemed to me the most natural thing in … Continue reading
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Tagged Arianism, Arius Alexandrian cleric, Council of Nicaea, Doonsbury Arianism, Goethe, Gottfried Arnold, John Wycliffe, Joseph Priestly, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Master of St. Gilles, Religious Heresy, religious heretics, Saint Remy painter, Servetus
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into the heartland of heresy: religion as a private matter
Heresies. Recurrent ideas which break through the continually sealed crust of orthodoxy because they contain an important truth or an irrepressible human aspiration. And they don’t seem limited to one religion. In fact, monotheism seems to reinforce their appearances… The … Continue reading
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Tagged Albigensian heresy, Arafat and John Paul II, Arafat and the Pope, Bill Maher atheism, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Giordano Bruno, Giulio Cesare Vanini, Goethe, Gottfried Arnold, Heresy of the Cathars, Heretics history, Jewish Heresies, John Wycliffe, Judith Butler, Maimonides, Montanist Church, Pedro Berruguete, Rambam, ross douthat, William Blake, Yitzhak Shamir
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black plague & neurotic gloom: no belief no deny
Skepticism and timorous uncertainty marked the second half of the fourteenth century.The generation that survived the plague could not believe, but did not dare deny. It groped toward the future, with one nervous eye always peering over its shoulder toward … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Defoe, E.L. Skip Knox, Giovanni Boccaccio, Hans Holbein the younger, Jean Froissart, Jean Froissart Chronicles, John Wycliffe, Melissa Snell, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Sick House movie, Wat Tyler Uprising
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Heresy on the Guest list: too darn hot
Heresy has always had many faces. The classic division has always followed the Voltaire pattern of speaking truth to power in order to be absorbed within the establishment, and accept the sacraments. Heresy has traditionally been seen as four faced: … Continue reading
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Tagged Benozzo Gozzoli, Charles Lindberg, Charles Lindbergh, Cole Porter, Dorothy Thompson, Ethan Mordden, Ethel Waters, Fred Astaire, Goethe, Grouch Marx, John Dos Passos, John Ford, John Wycliffe, Katharine Hepburn, Moss Hart, Pedro Berruguete, Simon Magus, Sinclair Lewis, Stefan Kanfer, Truman Capote, Voltaire
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