Into the Friar (2010)(chicagoreader.com)
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Into the Friar (2010)
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Think of how many of us wage slaves dream of someday having a place of our own to potter around doing only that we really want.
Monasteries are basically that for people who love praying.
Monasteries are basically that for people who love praying.
So if the slogan of our age is "Cash Rules Everything Around Me", were the medievals into vitamin F, no matter which their order?
laboratores - Farming Rules Everything Around Me
bellatores - Fealty Rules Everything Around Me
oratores - Faith Rules Everything Around Me> I’m fairly convinced that most of our foundational assumptions about how we construe the religious Other were solidified in the Middle Ages and the period following.
I hope he's correct; I suspect much of the religious Other baggage came from when the early christians actually were being persecuted. (one can understand the government persecution; from the Roman POV, they were a bunch of atheist pinko commies)
I hope he's correct; I suspect much of the religious Other baggage came from when the early christians actually were being persecuted. (one can understand the government persecution; from the Roman POV, they were a bunch of atheist pinko commies)
Also on "religious Other", compare John Milton:
> The vocabulary of seventeenth-century propaganda had a strident tone which is, perhaps unfortunately, getting to be characteristic of the twentieth century. The following epithets sound like an American Legion description of Communists, or a Communist description of the Polish democrats, yet they were applied in a book by a Lutheran to Quakers. The title of the tirade reads, in part:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pa...
> The vocabulary of seventeenth-century propaganda had a strident tone which is, perhaps unfortunately, getting to be characteristic of the twentieth century. The following epithets sound like an American Legion description of Communists, or a Communist description of the Polish democrats, yet they were applied in a book by a Lutheran to Quakers. The title of the tirade reads, in part:
... a description of the ... new Quakers, making known the sum of their manifold
blasphemous opinions, dangerous practices, Godless crimes, attempts to subvert
civil government in the churches and in the community life of the world; together
with their idiotic games, their laughable action and behavior, which is enough to
make sober Christian persons breathless, and which is like death, and which can
display the lazy stinking cadaver of their fanatical doctrines....
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pa...
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