Before I delve on, I thought i'd take a break and give 'everybody' a list of some of my favorite writers, both spiritual and temporal, fiction and nonfiction. I do not of course endorse everything these writers said and did, but I think it's important that what they did say and do be reflected upon. Here's the list;
st. Augustine
st. Dionysius the Areopagite
Origen
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Blaise Paschal
Fr. Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
Leon Bloy
Orestes Brownson
Fyodor Doestievsky
Vladimir Soloviev
And also i'd like to give you a list of authors that I used to like, but I began to suspect of being insidious crypto-heretics and anti-catholics;
C. S. Lewis
J.R.R. Tolkien
Suprised? Shocked? Outraged? I hope so.
Well, I will cover that and other literary perigrinations in future posts.
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Lewis was a Protestant and Tolkien promoted wizardry. That's not crypto, that's manifest.
ReplyDeleteWasn't Serbati a condemned heretic? Makes sense that the Benedict XVI called him "blessed".
ReplyDeleteFr. Antonio Rosmini was the friend and trusted advisor to Pope Pius IX who advocated Italian unity with the Pope as Monarch, not the House of Savoy. This in itself makes him a target of calumny. He was orthodox and called so by the Pope himself, who enjoined silence upon him and his critics among the Jesuits. 30 years after his death in I believe 1852, his opponents stitched together 40 propositions from out-of-context statements and got them condemned by the Holy Office during Pope Leo XIII's reign. Even his opponents attested to his holiness of life and the religious institutions he founded were never supressed. His theology was new but orthodox and would have equiped the Church with the tools to fight Modernism more effectively-which is why I believe he was suppressed. He was btw, partly responsible for the revival of Thomism and Scholasticism in the 19th cent. as well, hardly a position a heretic would take, don't you think? You can read more about him at 'rosmini-in-english.org'. As to Lewis and Tolkien, I was refering to their demiurgic gnosticism actually.
ReplyDeleteRosmini is an example of something that I hope to expound on later, that the problems of the modern era Church did not begin in 1958, 1949, 1914, or even 1848, but earlier with Galileo and also the 'Jansenist' Port-Royal controversy
ReplyDeleteCopernicus even.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Origen became a heretic after he wrote the excellent treatise "Against the Heresies" go figure that one out.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip about Rosmini. I'll read up on him some more.
Even the best theologians can trip up, even those of a exemplary moral life. Origen castrated himself, I read somewhere, which is the sin of self-mutilation.
ReplyDeleteAs to Rosmini, I highly recommend him and lament that the Jesuits managed to destroy his posthumous influence, given that they used the cloak of 'Thomism' to propagate their semipelagianism. 'New' is not always untrue, as you will find when you read what Rosmini says about heretics always accusing the Orthodox of innovation. Leo XIII was not the best of Pontiffs, just as Pope Pius IX feared, especially when he approved the comdemnation of the '40 propositions' and allowed Rosmini-a man i'm sure he knew-to be slandered with the label of Pantheism. If st. Augustine were alive then they would have done the same by calling his theology of objective knowledge 'Pantheism', as Augustine and Rosmini both held that we 'see' all that we see by light from God, by His Grace, not that God, the light by which we see, and ourselves are one! If you have any further questions regarding Rosmini's theology let me know
I also forgot to mention one of my greatest influences; Joseph de Maistre
ReplyDeleteOh, I really recommend Rosmini's work on innovative Orthodoxy, 'Theological Language', which can be found at;
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rosmini-in-english.org/Theological_Language/Contents.htm
One of the problems in comprehending Rosmini's work is that while he quotes the Fathers and Doctors and scholastics, he has his own style that takes a little getting used to-not for lack of clarity, but for his innovative terminology.