Saturday, August 5, 2017
Friday, August 4, 2017
H.L. MENCKEN: THE DAYS TRILOGY
M. L Mencken, The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition: Happy Days; Newspaper Days; Heathen Days; Days Revisited: Unpublished Commentary, edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (New York: Library of America (2014) (From "Drill for a Rookie": "I made up my mind at once that my true and natural allegiance was to the Devil's party, and it has been my firm belief ever since that al; persons who devote themselves to forcing virtue on their fellow men deserve nothing better than kicks in the pants. Years later I put that belief into a proposition which I ventured to call Mencken's Law,to wit: Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. The moral theologians, unhappily , have paid no heed to this contribution to their science, and so Mencken's Law must wait for recognition until the dawn of a more enlightened age." Id. 224, 234.).
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
PROTESTANTISM, MODERN EUROPE, AND BEYOND
Alec Ryrie, Protestants: The Faith that Made the Modern World (New York: Viking, 2017).
Heinz Schilling, Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval, translated from the German by on a Johnston (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2017).
Heinz Schilling, Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval, translated from the German by on a Johnston (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2017).
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
ROMAN CATHOLICISM'S DISCOMFORT WITH LUTHER AND THE REFORMATION
John C. Rao, ed., Luther and His Progeny: 500 Years of Protestantism and Its Consequences for Church, State, and Society (A Roman Forum Book) (Kettering, OH: Angelico Press, 2017) (From the "Introduction: Half a Millennium of Total Depravity (1517-2017): A Critique of Luther's Impact in the Year of His 'Catholic' Apotheosis": "Our civilization is so sick that even the best efforts to prop up its tottering remains manifest the same illness that is step by step bringing the entire structure crumbling down. The disease in question is a willful, prideful, irrational, and ignorant obsession with 'freedom.' And it is a malady that gained its initial effective entry into Christendom in union with the concept of the natural world as the realm of 'total depravity.'" "It is crucially important that we both diagnose this malady and identify its historical connection with Martin Luther and the Protestant Revolution, popularly but erroneously styled a 'Reformation.' It is crucially important that we do so now because of the efforts being made this year to use the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of Luther's declaration of war on Christendom in 1517 as an opportunity radically to rewrite and reinterpret that event and misrepresent its true nature." Id. at 1. "Convinced that many of our ecclesiastical leaders would turn 2017 into a year-long celebration of the accomplishments of Luther & Company--and that Catholics need to be aware of what an historical, theological, and socio-political travesty such a celebration would be--the international faculty of the Roman Forum dedicated its twenty-fourth annual Summer Symposium at Gardone Riviera in northern Italy in 2016 to 'Half a Millennium of Total Depravity (1517-2017): A Critique of Luther's Impact on the Eve of His 'Catholic' Apotheosis.' The lectures delivered at that event are collected in the book that the reader has before him." Id. at 2. COLD BURN!).
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