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Essays: https://t.co/FnhOgaxrte Alt-Podcast: https://t.co/a93ZOpxpRt I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top --
Oct 10, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Thread on some interesting elements to the much reviled (but deeply important for modern rw) JBS -- both warnings & lessons for Today. Image JBS had a vibrant combination of top-down & grass-roots organization. There was central control of literature distribution, but each chapter was mostly self-governing, made of educated professionals who networked in relation to big-picture mobilizing. Image
Jun 14, 2023 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Henry8 was self-conscious about preserving the Tudor dynasty, which had ended a century-long civil war. He was fairly pious & believed his lack of a son was a curse for violating Leviticus (marrying his brother's widow, which the pope allowed). Divorce was synonym for annulment. However Catherine's uncle was Charles5, who had just sieged/arrested the Pope (Clement7). Pope's recommendation was for Henry to simply take Anne as a concubine, adopting one of his bastards. But Henry saw this as a recipe for chaos. Here enter Evangelicals.
Jun 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
To clarify Zwingli's insight & make broader concerns about Eucharist: it's not that Zwingli was the first to connect Eucharist to Pascha, it was that the Eucharist was to be understood viz. Pascha, ie it was a meal that transformed the partakers, & less about the elements. This insight was a reversal of Thomas Aquinas' judgement that the NT sacraments were self-operative (unlike the OT which required faith to work). Therefore Zwingli shifted the focus away from what happens to bread/wine to what happens to the church & rejected OT/NT difference.
Jun 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Assessment from 70s that Swedish Social Democracy was the most totalitarian form of polity. Seems excessive, but a necessary opening. Image Huntford makes a conjecture that it's because Sweden skipped feudalism, opting for centralization earlier on, that it was culturally prime for SocDem take over. It's an outsider's POV, but will investigate.
May 26, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
It's unstated how important polemics were to theological debate. The fear of appearing to be on the side of heretic X led to fairly ruthless changes in what was permissible to say. Here are some patristic examples: The early Christians called themselves Gnostics because the Lordship of Christ is "saving knowledge of the truth". But the refitting of this term by smaller sects, who claimed truer saving knowledge, led to condemnation of "so-called gnostics", blackening the concept.