𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘴 (@_bonaventurian)

📄 A Guide to Studying Philosophy and Theology Well I've been asked enough times that I'm going to lay out in full how I study. Figured that this mode of discipline may also be of good use as Lent is quickly approaching. ...

The Mystical Theology of Serial Experiments Lain Lain as the substance by which the Wired lives and moves in, and as the product of her Father's intellect is weirdly Christological. But she is also at the same time the sinner who forgot their dignity, trapped in delusion. ...

Eckhart & Origen on Christ's Divinity Mt. 27:46 | At the ninth hour Jesus cried out, “O God, my God, why hast thou forsaken Me?” [ἠλί, ἠλί λαμά σαβαχθάνι]?” Mk. 10:17 | Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. How is Jesus God when he says this? ...

5 Arguments Against Reincarnation 1) A proof in the converse from the truth of hylomorphism 2) An argument from soteriology 3) St. Maximus the Confessor 4) Contra Buddhism qua the operation &amp; nature of consciousness 5) Contra Vedanta qua absolute monism <span class="quote-card" data-quote-in...

Liberal progressives and most moderns alike harp on about progress, evolution, as if progress comes necessarilyーas if regress were not possible. This progress they guarantee by developing, not habits, but rules, methods, and mechanical aids. Descartes pioneered this. ...

Do not trust the Chicago, or Austrian schools or any Libertarianism for that matter. They were generated and propelled in the midst of powerful Neoliberal Foundation funding (qua Mont Pèlerin Society)—the same that gave us the New Left of '68....

Everytime St. Teresa of Avila describes someone that strikes her as having achieved a high spiritual perfection it seems the four things in common in her reports are: humility, a patience so strong the thought of complaining never arises, a severe yearning for God, spiritual joy....

📄 Both Fr. Matthew M. De Benedictus OFM and Christopher Cullen seem to rather shyly concede that if you were to implement St. Bonaventure's social thought directly into politics, you would have what functionally amounts to clerical fascism....

📄The 'prescriptive acceleration' from Marx, one ought support free trade to create conditions for revolution is naive consequentialism. Land rightly flipped this to 'descriptive': acceleration: the process of fragmentation. Proclus: death is a reduction of a thing to its parts...