How many books does a man need? Answer: not many. It is a great fallacy to think that one may attain wisdom by reading more books. Books, on their own will never provide easy access to wisdom. Wisdom is granted by looking long and hard at one’s self, and the natural world, then, gradually, coming to know the Divine in its multitudinous forms. That being said, there are books that may help one on life’s journey. Those books are the ones that can be read a number of times with benefit. It is better to read a good book a hundred times, rather than a hundred poor or mediocre books once. So, why am I writing a review of
There's nothing repulsive in Chestertonian Christianity...
If you take offense to it being against paganism, that's because it's closer to the kind of Christianity that, unlike modern protestant christianity, supercedes paganism and is born from its era and as a reaction to its dead ends.
In that sense that christianity was more paganistic (and more in touch with the original paganism, it's adoptants were literally original pagans) than much of modern paganism (which is modernity in cosplay).
Thanks for the recommendation. I may give it a read.
I like this: "We already live in a place and time where the 'new' is reified and fetishized. What we need is not more new things, but old things made new. "
There's nothing repulsive in Chestertonian Christianity...
If you take offense to it being against paganism, that's because it's closer to the kind of Christianity that, unlike modern protestant christianity, supercedes paganism and is born from its era and as a reaction to its dead ends.
In that sense that christianity was more paganistic (and more in touch with the original paganism, it's adoptants were literally original pagans) than much of modern paganism (which is modernity in cosplay).
Thanks for the recommendation. I may give it a read.
I like this: "We already live in a place and time where the 'new' is reified and fetishized. What we need is not more new things, but old things made new. "