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The Heavy Anglo-Orthodox: Remembering Holy Bede the Venerable

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Remembering Holy Bede the Venerable. However, in both the religious and the secular world he is also highly regarded as the father of English history, whose History of the English Church and People. Bede himself had a formidable intellect. He had a full command of Greek (in keeping with the heavy Byzantine influence. Where they remain to this day. Throughout the dark years of thy times, O Bede,. Thou didst water the English lands and all the West with outpourings of grace;. 7 June 2016 at 12:08. I havent...

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The Heavy Anglo-Orthodox: Mother Maria Skobtsova, Saint of Sobornost’

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Mother Maria Skobtsova, Saint of Sobornost’. Of March, we celebrate the dies natalis. Of Mother Maria (Skobtsova), a beloved martyr and witness to Christ among the Russian émigré. Population in France. Her Essential Writings. Are particularly recommended during this Lenten season, as her essays, though brief, are spiritually and personally challenging on a number of levels. They should also certainly be of interest to the good folks of Solidarity Hall. And The Dorothy Option. 8211; all of whom eventually...

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The Heavy Anglo-Orthodox: A personal announcement

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For a long time now – since the very beginning of this blog, actually – I have given serious consideration to joining the Orthodox faith. Searching my conscience, I cannot pretend that my own motives have been entirely pure or that they were always motivated by right. It was idle curiosity more than anything else that led me to pick up Nikolai Berdyaev’s The Russian Revolution. I’ll be blunt: Bp KJ Schori’s homily in Caracas was a tipping-point for me.). Say that I am? 12 October 2013 at 05:41. It took m...

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The Heavy Anglo-Orthodox: Hanfu – a tale of traditionalist resistance

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8211; a tale of traditionalist resistance. Cross-posted from Solidarity Hall. In 2003, a power-company worker named Wang Letian in Zhengzhou, Henan Province began doing something unprecedentedly strange, almost unthinkable in Chinese society with its subtly conformist pressures. He walked down the street, in broad daylight, wearing traditional Chinese clothing. And not just any traditional Chinese clothing – he did not choose, for example, the tangzhuang. It would be more than somewhat naïve to dismiss t...

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The Heavy Anglo-Orthodox: Confucius: he was who he was

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Confucius: he was who he was. One of my pet hates is the way in which some Western thinkers, such as Alan Watts and Friedrich Hayek, have attempted to pigeonhole traditional Chinese thought (such as the Daoist thinkers) into culturally-irrelevant categories (libertarianism / anarchism). Now it appears that one of Hayek’s disciples attempts to do the same. To Confucius and his followers. I am not going to go into an exhaustive point-by-point rebuttal of Long here (his article being 70 pages in length!

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The Heavy Anglo-Orthodox: Abay and related thoughts

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Abay and related thoughts. I enjoyed his Poem 9 from the McKane translation of The Book of Words. I don't write poems for amusement,. And not to gather together tales and fables. I write to give an example to the young,. Whose hearts are sensitive and tongues flexible. These words are available not to the thick-skulled, but to the seekers. Who have a reasonable heart and a clear mind. Come directly, no straying, no looking for devious ways. You cannot recognise the essence from outside. What joy can they...

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The Heavy Anglo-Orthodox: Michael Schuman on Confucian anti-capitalism

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Michael Schuman on Confucian anti-capitalism. Article, an excerpt from Michael Schuman’s book Confucius: And the World He Created. Is from eight months ago, but it is brilliant all the same. Here are a couple of the good bits from early in the piece:. Oh, and it gets even better! Schuman has some very interesting things to say about Han-era Confucian scholar Dong Zhongshu. The man pretty much single-handedly responsible for bringing into being the much-maligned. Even though nothing immediately came of it...

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The Heavy Anglo-Orthodox: The heavy reading list - 20 modern works and 5 classics

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The heavy reading list - 20 modern works and 5 classics. Some days ago now, one of my readers, we’ll call him Jon McC—, suggested in the wake of my last blog post that I draw up a list of twenty books that have been influential on my political, theological and economic thinking. This struck me as an excellent idea, and I will attempt to do so now – though the caveat. Is that these are non-classics. This is a far fuller exposition of Berdyaev’s historical thinking, tying it more directly into his re...

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The Heavy Anglo-Orthodox: ‘Winged visions’ – an occasion for metanoia

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8216;Winged visions’ – an occasion for metanoia. Spoke in her writings – specifically her essays on the ‘Crucible of Doubts’. I think I can say with some honesty that my philosophical ‘first love’ (I use the term quite deliberately. 8211; not only preached. Through the rites – reverence for the elderly, care for the young, and solidarity for the powerless. He inspired numerous generations of scholars who criticised the powerful. And later the Rites. And distinguished by equity. Particularly Russian histo...

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The Heavy Anglo-Orthodox: An Eastern thinker's view of Western Christianity

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An Eastern thinker's view of Western Christianity. Though highly critical of the internal inconsistencies of Communism and the way in which it stifled existential creativity, Berdyaev saw the rise of Communism itself as a judgment upon Christendom, which had failed. To capture the public's imagination and creative energies and which had failed. He was hearkening back to Berdyaev's criticism of Russian Christianity, or whether he had simply come to the same page from another direction. At some level, even...