One Eternal Day
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From "A Thicker Kind of Mere" by Timothy George:
The term mere Christianity, of course, was made famous by C.S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years. Since 2001, more than 3.5 million copies of Mere Christianity have been sold in English alone, with many more translated into most of the worlds languages....A Thicker Kind of Mere | Timothy George | First Things0commentsLabels:Belief,C.S. Lewis,The Church,Theology Thursday, October 7, 2021 "We win by confessing our sins"From Russell Moore's newsletter "Moore to the Point," today:
"Mere Christianity is actually a phrase Lewis borrowed from the seventeenth-century Puritan divine Richard Baxter. ....
But Baxters mere Christianity was not mere Christianity in the weak, attenuated sense of the word mere. Both Lewis and Baxter used the word mere in what is todayregrettablyan obsolete sense, meaning nothing less than, absolute, sure, unqualified, as opposed to todays weakened sense of only this, nothing more than, or such and no more. Our contemporary meaning of the word mere corresponds to the Latin vix, barely, hardly, scarcely, while the classical, Baxterian usage corresponds to the Latin vere, truly, really, indeed.
Baxter had no use for a substance-less, colorless homogeneity bought at the expense of the true catholic faith. Indeed, he had his own list of non-negotiable fundamentals, including belief in one triune God; in one mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ, the eternal Word, God incarnate; in the Holy Spirit; in the gifts of God present to his covenanted people in baptism and Holy Communion; and in a life of obedience, holiness, and growth in Christ. ....
...[W]hat Baxter and Lewis called for...is a thicker kind of merenot mere as minimal but mere as central, essential; mere as vere, not vix. C.S. Lewis put it this way: Measured against the ages, mere Christianity turns out to be no insipid interdenominational transparency, but something positive, self-consistent, and inexhaustible. ....
It is at her centre, where her truest children dwell, that each communion is really closest to each other in spirit, if not in doctrine. And this suggests that at the centre of each there is a something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice. .... (more)
...[T]hese followers of Christ think theyre failing. Why? Because they assume success means a sort of tranquility, a rest from the awareness of oneself as a sinner, a rest from the need to repent of sin.Russell Moore, "Moore to the Point," Oct. 7, 2021.0commentsLabels:Christian Living,Grace and SalvationWorshiping or watching?C.S. Lewis on worship:
As I said to one of them, What you are expecting is achievable, but you have to be dead first. What youre expecting is to be something other than a sinner. That will happen, but when it does, you will be in the New Jerusalem in the presence of Christ. If you think you experience it before then, you are actually just finding a way to call your sin something other than sin. And thats, well, sin.
What they think is failing is actually just the ordinary Christian life involving the kind of spiritual warfare Jesus taught us to wagewhich starts with our Father and continues through forgive us our debts, all the way through deliver us from the evil one. We never get too spiritually successful to move to some other way of praying. ....
We win by confessing our sins, claiming the gospel that tells us there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ, and then fighting for holinessnot so we can prove to Jesus that we are worthy of his love but because Jesus is with us and knows that it takes more repentance, not less, as well as a growing understanding of just how much we need to repent of, for us to be holy. ....
When I hear people wave away their sin and say, Thats just how I am or Im just human, I dont believe they are hearing this from Jesus. And when I hear people despairing of hope because they have to keep fighting and repenting, I dont believe they are hearing that from Jesus either. Some of us need to take our sin more seriously. And some of us need to receive the gospel more joyfully.
Those who think repentance is failure will eventually give up. But those who recognize the path of repentance and confession and faith as ongoing are those who will see both where the path leads and the One who has been here all along to help us get there. ....
EVERY SERVICE IS a structure of acts and words through which we receive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And it enables us to do these things bestif you like it, it "works" bestwhen, through long familiarity, we don't have to think about it. As long as you notice, and have to count, the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not consciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964).0commentsLabels:C.S. Lewis,Inklings,Worship Monday, October 4, 2021 HopeMore from Jeremy Taylor (16131667) on "Means of hope and remedies against despair":
But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing from worshiping. ....
A still worse thing may happen. Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question "What on earth is he up to now?" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, "I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even Teach my performing dogs new tricks."
Thus my whole liturgiological position really boils down to an entreaty for permanence and uniformity. I can make do with almost any kind of service whatever, if only it will stay put. But if each form is snatched away just when I am beginning to feel at home in it, then I can never make any progress in the art of worship. ....
Gather together into your spirit, and its treasure-house the memory, not only all the promises of God, but also the remembrances of experience, and the former senses of the divine favours, that from thence you may argue from times past to the present, and enlarge to the future and to greater blessings. For although the conjectures and expectations of hope are not like the conclusions of faith, yet they are a helmet against the scorchings of despair in temporal things, and an anchor of the soul sure and steadfast, against the fluctuations of the spirit in matters of the soul. St. Bernard reduces to these three the instruments of all our hopes : First, the charity of God adopting us; secondly, the truth of His promises; thirdly, the power of His performance. This was St. Paul's instrument: 'Experience begets hope, and hope maketh not ashamed'.He offers "A Prayer for a contented spirit":
O Almighty God, Father and Lord of all the creatures, by secret and undiscernible ways bringing good out of evil; give me wisdom from above; teach me to be content in all changes of person and condition, to be temperate in prosperity, and in adversity to be meek, patient, and resigned; and to look through the cloud, in the meantime doing my duty with an unwearied diligence, and an undisturbed resolution, laying up my hopes in heaven and the rewards of holy living, and being strengthened with the spirit of the inner man, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, 1650.0commentsLabels:Belief,Books,Christian Living,Prayer Sunday, October 3, 2021 "Sufficient to the day..."Jeremy Taylor (16131667):
Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be not solicitous for the future; for if you take your foot from the present standing, and thrust it forward towards to-morrow's event, you are in a restless condition: it is like refusing to quench your present thirst by fearing you shall want drink the next day. If it be well today, it is madness to make the present miserable by fearing it may be ill tomorrow. Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes. Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them, and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly; for this day is only ours; we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow. He therefore that enjoys the present if it be good, enjoys as much as is possible. 'Sufficient to the day' (said Christ) 'is the evil thereof': sufficient, but not intolerable. Miserable is he who thrusts his passions forwards, towards future events, and suffers all that he may enjoy to be lost, thinking nothing fit to be enjoyed but that which is not or cannot be had.Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, 1650.0commentsLabels:Christian Living,Health and Wealth Friday, September 24, 2021 "Spoiled with praise and...spoiled with abuse"Today the Wall Street Journal has a review of a new edition of The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. I've ordered it. From Barton Swaim's review:
.... Coolidge takes two of the books seven chapters to recall his 512 years as president. It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, he writes, for him to know that he is not a great man. When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions. ...."The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge Review: Quiet, Modest, Memorable"0commentsLabels:Books,Political Thought,Religion and Politics Thursday, September 23, 2021 "There is light even in the darkest hour"Worth re-posting:
I was convinced in my own mind that I was not qualified to fill the exalted office of President, he recalls. Harding died in 1923, making Coolidge president. He won the presidency in his own right in 1924, taking a majority of the popular vote against two opponentsDemocrat John W. Davis and Progressive Robert LaFollettewhile hardly mentioning either by name.
Republicans expected him to run again in 1928, but he declined. Vacationing in South Dakota the year before, he issued a terse statement: I do not choose to run for President in 1928. Why? Because, as he puts it in the Autobiography, the people would not have confidence in a man that appeared to be grasping for officeif only!and in any case the chances of having wise and faithful public service are increased by a change in the Presidential office after a moderate length of time. ....
The myth of Silent Cal is loosely connected to truth. The most famous story of his taciturnityat a dinner, a woman told him shed bet a friend that she could get more than two words out of the president, to which he replied, You loseis likely an invention. But he was parsimonious with words. In the Autobiography he writes of the value of a silence which avoids creating a situation where one would otherwise not exist.
Coolidges reticence was not a sign of dullness. He had a gift for perceiving the heart of a political question and expressing what he saw in clear, direct prose. ....
The books finest passage appears in its penultimate chapter, mundanely titled Some of the Duties of the President. The president must remember at all times, he writes, that he is dealing with two different minds. The first is the mind of the country, desiring the nations welfare but remaining unorganized, formless, and inarticulate. The other is the political mind: a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeur at another time, of the most selfish preferment combined with the most sacrificing patriotism. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. With them nothing is natural, everything is artificial. .... (more, probably behind a subscription wall)
We have already seen that in Jesus we have seen the mind of God, and that mind is love. If then we say that the Word was active in creation it means that creation is the product of the mind of God which we see in Jesus Christ. This means that the same love which redeemed us created the world, that love is the principle of creation as love is the principle of redemption. There is a time in life when this may seem simply a theological or philosophical truth; but there is also a time in life when it is the only thing in life left to hold on to. There is a time when life and the world seem quite clearly to be an enemy, when life seems out to break our hearts, to ruin our dreams, and to smash our lives. There comes a time when we seem to be living in a hostile universe. At such a time it is the greatest thing in life, sometimes it is the only thing left, to be able to cling on to the conviction that 'life means intensely and it means good.' For if we believe that it was this mind of God in Jesus Christ which conceived and created the universe then it does mean that, whatever it feels like, God is working all things together for good, and the world is out not to break us but to make us. If the Christ of creation and the Christ of redemption are one and the same, then there is light even in the darkest hour."Life means intensely and it means good" is a quotation from Robert Browning
Jesus is the Word. He is God's ultimate and final communication to men; he is the demonstration to men of the mind of God towards them; he is the guarantee that at the heart of creation there is love.William Barclay, Jesus as They Saw Him, 1962.
0commentsLabels:Belief,Christian Living,Health and Wealth Sunday, September 19, 2021 DuneI haven't read Frank Herberts Dune. I was never much of a consumer of science fiction, or fantasy either, apart from LOTR. A new film adaptation of Dune will come out next month and in anticipation the current National Review has an essay in appreciation of the book hoping that the film will be as good. From the essay:
In a 1980 essay describing the origin of Dune, Herbert wrote that the story emerged out of his belief that superheroes are disastrous for humankind and that even if we find a real hero (whatever or whoever that may be), eventually fallible mortals take over the power structure that always comes into being around such a leader. And in a 1981 interview, he claimed that there is definitely an implicit warning in much of his work against big government and especially against charismatic leaders, because such people well-intentioned or not are human beings who will make human mistakes. Paul Atreides is not a model but a warning about the dangers of false messiahs, of trusting overly in charismatic leaders, and of mixing politics and religion. As it is put in Dune:Jack Butler, "Will Denis Villeneuve Capture the Greatness of Dune?," National Review, Oct. 4, 2021. 0commentsLabels:Books,Fiction,Movies,Religion and Politics Friday, September 17, 2021 Esperanto for measurementI love this:When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until its too late.
The British government has announced that U.K. businesses will once again be allowed to sell their products in traditional, British units of measurement, like pounds and ounces, instead of the metric system."Britain Delivers a Welcome Blow to the Metric System"0commentsLabels:Edmund Burke Tuesday, September 14, 2021 A guilty pleasureI enjoy Robert Mitchum in just about every thing he did. His villainous roles in Cape Fear (1962) and The Night of the Hunter (1955) may have been his best, but I particularly enjoy some of the films noir he did earlier, films like Macao (1952) and The Big Steal (1949) in both of which his antagonist was William Bendix. Tonight I watched one of my favorites, His Kind of Woman (1951). It was produced while Howard Hughes controlled RKO. Raymond Burr was a villain. Jane Russell was the woman. And Vincent Price in a great role.
This move is a win for freedom-loving people everywhere, and the restoration of customary units should be a cause for jubilation in the streets.
The metric system has its origins in the French Revolution....
The French Revolution was a time when men were, in the words of Edmund Burke, pull[ing] down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in an hundred years. The top-down imposition of the metric system did just that by erasing customary units.
By customary units, I dont just mean the U.S. customary system, but any unit of measure derived through custom. If you read about the origins of customary units, youll find that many of them are based on specific occupations, like brewing, farming, and surveying. They were invented by people doing their jobs who needed a way to measure things. They developed units of measure that were useful to them and persuaded others to adopt them for ease of commerce. Customary units eventually became standardized through a bottom-up process. They represent the wisdom of our ancestors, the accumulated experiences over the centuries. ....
As Burke said, it calls for little ability to point out the errors and defects of old establishments. Indeed, it calls for little ability to say, Base-ten would be easier. Never mind that we tell time on a non-base-ten system and it works just fine. Its not for lack of trying other systems, either: The French tried a ten-day week and ten-hour days for a while, but it didnt stick.
Or consider that the computer or smartphone on which youre reading this post measures information in bits, a base-two customary unit derived from the days of punch cards and vacuum tubes. And theres eight bits in a byte, oh no! ....
The metric system is Esperanto for measurement, except many more people have been seduced by its scientistic allure. The metric system is based on the utopian idea that everything old is bad, and that humans have the power to create a better world by severing all ties with custom and tradition and imposing contrived, rationalistic systems on people, whether they like it or not.
By allowing customary units again, the British are striking a blow against that nonsensical and destructive worldview. I cant think of a better way to celebrate than with a cold drink from a twelve-ounce can. (more)
The Rotten Tomatoes description:
In a desperate attempt to get out of debt, career gambler Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) agrees to rendezvous with a mysterious contact at a distant Mexican resort in exchange for $50,000. Upon arriving, Milner meets his fellow guests, including a plastic surgeon, a philandering movie star (Vincent Price) and his beautiful girlfriend (Jane Russell). Soon Milner discovers that the man who hired him may be the ruthless Nick Ferraro a deported Italian gangster who looks just like him.The film is about two hours and is available on Amazon Prime.0commentsLabels:Movies,Mysteries and Thrillers Saturday, September 11, 2021 September 11After 9/11 in 2001, at the Queen's request, breaking centuries of tradition, the American national anthem was performed at the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. This morning at Windsor Castle where the Queen is in residence:
Here is the main thing I have learned:Common Sense with Bari Weiss, "I'm 17. And I'm Immunized from Woke Politics"0commentsLabels:Education,Growing up Wednesday, September 8, 2021 Uncle AbnerIn a post about early American detective fiction, "The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes," comes one I've posted about before:
When acceptance is the highest value, when avoiding condemnation online is worth more than the truth, the truth will be swiftly discarded. Online likes, followers and reputation weak, empty values dominate the teenage world because teenagers are not being taught alternative ones by the culture or, often, by the adults in their lives. They we are not being given the tools to answer the questions that really matter: What is truth? What is justice? And what is the purpose of life?
My generations been told that truth or justice are merely assertions of power. Except heres the thing: The square root of 64 is 8, the Moon is nearly 239,000 miles from the Earth, and you do not need to believe in God to see that goodwill is a force for positive change. Believing in that is the ultimate immunization against nihilism.
Arguably the most original of all the American detectives of this period, Uncle Abner was the creation of the lawyer and author Melville Davisson Post. Posts God-fearing hero appeared in 22 stories, written between 1911 and 1928. Riding through the backwoods of West Virginia in the years before the American Civil War, he dispenses justice and wisdom under the admiring gaze of the narrator, his young nephew Martin. Although largely forgotten today, the Uncle Abner stories have had many admirers over the years since their first publication. In 1941, Howard Haycraft, one of the first literary critics to take crime fiction seriously, called Posts character the greatest American contribution to the cast list of detective fiction since Poes C Auguste Dupin.Post's dedication in Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries:
"The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes"0commentsLabels:Books,Fiction,Mysteries and Thrillers Monday, September 6, 2021 On Labor DayRe-posted.
On this Labor Day, I re-post part of a 1942 address by Dorothy L. Sayers: "Why Work?" (pdf):
I HAVE already, on a previous occasion, spoken at some length on the subject of Work and Vocation. What I urged then was a thorough-going revolution in our whole attitude to work. I asked that it should be looked uponnot as a necessary drudgery to be undergone for the purpose of making money, but as a way of life in which the nature of man should find its proper exercise and delight and so fulfill itself to the glory of God. That it should, in fact, be thought of as a creative activity undertaken for the love of the work itself; and that man, made in God's image, should make things, as God makes them, for the sake of doing well a thing that is well worth doing. ....Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos?" Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949, pp. 46-62.0commentsLabels:Dorothy L. Sayers,National Holiday Sunday, September 5, 2021 "Though we walk through the valley of the shadow..."I first posted this prayer in the Spring of last year.
It is the business of the Church to recognize that the secular vocation, as such, is sacred. Christian people, and particularly perhaps the Christian clergy, must get it firmly into their heads that when a man or woman is called to a particular job of secular work, that is as true a vocation as though he or she were called to specifically religious work. .... It is not right for her to acquiesce in the notion that a man's life is divided into the time he spends on his work and the time he spends in serving God. He must be able to serve God in his work, and the work itself must be accepted and respected as the medium of divine creation. ....
Where we have become confused is in mixing up the ends to which our work is put with the way in which the work is done. The end of the work will be decided by our religious outlook: as we are so we make. It is the business of religion to make us Christian people, and then our work will naturally be turned to Christian ends, because our work is the expression of ourselves. But the way in which the work is done is governed by no sanction except the good of the work itself; and religion has no direct connexion with that, except to insist that the workman should be free to do his work well according to its own integrity. ....
From Jeremy Taylor: a prayer "for all that lie under the rod of war, famine, pestilence."
O Lord God Almighty, Thou art our Father, we are Thy children. Let health and peace be within our dwellings; let righteousness and holiness dwell for ever in our hearts, and be expressed in all our actions. O merciful God, say unto the destroying angel, 'It is enough'; let Thy hand cover Thy servants and hide us from the present anger; that though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we may fear no evil, and suffer none. Those smitten, support with Thy staff, and visit them with Thy mercies and salvation, through Jesus Christ. Amen.Jeremy Taylor, The Role and Exercises of Holy Living, 1650-51.0commentsLabels:PrayerNever unprepared
Thou, who with thine own mouth hast told us that at midnight the bridegroom shall come: Grant that the cry, "The bridegroom cometh!" may sound evermore in our ears, that so we be never unprepared to meet Him, or forgetful of the souls for whom he died, for whom we watch and pray. And save us, O Lord. Amen.0commentsLabels:Church History,Prayer Saturday, September 4, 2021 "Putting away all earthly anxieties..."
Lancelot Andrewes (1555 1626)
A COLLECT FOR SABBATH REST SaturdayBook of Common Prayer, 2019, ACNA.0commentsLabels:Prayer,Sabbath Friday, September 3, 2021 PostingI haven't posted here for over a week. I try every day to find something interesting to post at least interesting to me. I apologize to everyone who follows the blog. I simply haven't discovered material I particularly wanted to share. Back soon with good findings I hope.0comments Tuesday, August 24, 2021 "When I use a word..."After watching Jen Psaki's news conference yesterday several commentators were reminded of this from Through the Looking Glass. Having proved to his own satisfaction that un-birthday presents are superior to birthday presents because they can be given far more times in a year, Humpty Dumpty says:
Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we, putting away all earthly anxieties, may be duly prepared for the service of your sanctuary, and that our rest here upon earth may be a preparation for the eternal rest promised to your people in heaven; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Theres glory for you!
I dont know what you mean by glory, Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously.
Of course you donttill I tell you. I meant theres a nice knock-down argument for you!0commentsLabels:Books,Childrens Literature,Humor Monday, August 23, 2021 DoubtsToday Alan Jacobs posts a quotation from George MacDonald's The Voice of Job:
But glory doesnt mean a nice knock-down argument, Alice objected.
When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to meanneither more nor less.
The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many different things.
The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be masterthats all.
....To deny the existence of God may, paradoxical as the statement will at first seem to some, involve less unbelief than the smallest yielding to doubt of his goodness. I say yielding; for a man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to rouse the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood; and theirs in general is the inhospitable reception of angels that do not come in their own likeness. Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed. In all Jobs begging and longing to see God, then, may well be supposed to mingle the mighty desire to be assured of Gods being. To acknowledge is not to be sure of God.(more)George MacDonald's The Voice of Job0commentsLabels:Alan Jacobs,Belief,Health and Wealth Older PostsHomeSubscribe to:Posts (Atom)About "One Eternal Day"
The title, "One Eternal Day," is from the hymn "On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand" [1787] by Samuel Stennett, a prominent English Sabbatarian Baptist. A verse from that hymn refers to the rest believers will enjoy in the "promised land."
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