The New Ressourcement

[Akita Suggagaki]

You might want to get some biodegradable pesticides, my brother.

Theology is complicated stuff, and is probably the reason why I downloaded some open-access theology books from several denominations onto my computer for artificial intelligence to decipher, cos sometimes it is nice to talk with the book, as if it were a person. Thanks for the link to the chart.

Diatomaceous Earth helps but leaves a white mess. My wife gets some earth friendly stuff. I think it has Rosemary oil or something.

I am especially interested in the Fundamentalist phenomenon in America. It runs through most denominations.

"The dispute between the fundamentalists and modernists would be played out in nearly every Christian denomination. By the 1920s, it was clear that every mainstream Protestant denomination was going to be willing to accommodate modernism, with the exception of the Presbyterians, Southern Baptists, and the Missouri Synod Lutherans, where the situation was still unclear.

Fundamentalist–modernist controversy - Wikipedia

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Christian fundamentalism - Wikipedia

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"The Word of God should be taken literally"
Catholics 26% say yes
Evangelical Protestants 55%
Black Protestant 50%
Jehovah Witnesses 47%
Mainline Protestants 24%
Orthodox Christian 22%
Unaffiliated 10%

Religious Landscape Study | Pew Research Center

The Religious Landscape Study is a comprehensive survey of more than 35,000 Americans’ religious identities, beliefs and practices that’s been conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24. Pew Research Center.

www.pewresearch.org

 

[chevyontheriver]

Diatomaceous Earth helps but leaves a white mess. My wife gets some earth friendly stuff. I think it has Rosemary oil or something.

I am especially interested in the Fundamentalist phenomenon in America. It runs through most denominations.

"The dispute between the fundamentalists and modernists would be played out in nearly every Christian denomination. By the 1920s, it was clear that every mainstream Protestant denomination was going to be willing to accommodate modernism, with the exception of the Presbyterians, Southern Baptists, and the Missouri Synod Lutherans, where the situation was still unclear.

Fundamentalist–modernist controversy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Christian fundamentalism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"The Word of God should be taken literally"
Catholics 26% say yes
Evangelical Protestants 55%
Black Protestant 50%
Jehovah Witnesses 47%
Mainline Protestants 24%
Orthodox Christian 22%
Unaffiliated 10%

Religious Landscape Study | Pew Research Center

The Religious Landscape Study is a comprehensive survey of more than 35,000 Americans’ religious identities, beliefs and practices that’s been conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24. Pew Research Center.

www.pewresearch.org

One of the key people in early Fundamentalism was J Gresham Machen. He was at Princeton Seminary and ended up a cofounder of Westminster Seminary. He and some others wrote’The Fundamentals’ more or less in reaction to liberalism at Princeton and other elite Protestant seminaries.

Fundamentalism as we see it now is kind of anti-intellectual on purpose but the founders were much more intellectual and even came from the elites. They just didn’t buy the liberalism of the German schools as it spread into the American seminaries.

Anyhow, check out Machen. He had an excellent Biblical Greek study curriculum that is still used in some places today. Otherwise just his history is interesting.

 

[AlexB23]

Diatomaceous Earth helps but leaves a white mess. My wife gets some earth friendly stuff. I think it has Rosemary oil or something.

I am especially interested in the Fundamentalist phenomenon in America. It runs through most denominations.

"The dispute between the fundamentalists and modernists would be played out in nearly every Christian denomination. By the 1920s, it was clear that every mainstream Protestant denomination was going to be willing to accommodate modernism, with the exception of the Presbyterians, Southern Baptists, and the Missouri Synod Lutherans, where the situation was still unclear.

Fundamentalist–modernist controversy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Christian fundamentalism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"The Word of God should be taken literally"
Catholics 26% say yes
Evangelical Protestants 55%
Black Protestant 50%
Jehovah Witnesses 47%
Mainline Protestants 24%
Orthodox Christian 22%
Unaffiliated 10%

Religious Landscape Study | Pew Research Center

The Religious Landscape Study is a comprehensive survey of more than 35,000 Americans’ religious identities, beliefs and practices that’s been conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24. Pew Research Center.

www.pewresearch.org

Good luck with the eco-friendly bug repellent.

Fundamentalism can push many people away from Christianity, and it has no place in the Christian faith. In fact, Jesus had some things to say about fundamentalism, and it was not pretty.

Matthew 23:23 (NKJV): "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone."

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

One of the key people in early Fundamentalism was J Gresham Machen. He was at Princeton Seminary and ended up a cofounder of Westminster Seminary. He and some others wrote’The Fundamentals’ more or less in reaction to liberalism at Princeton and other elite Protestant seminaries.

Fundamentalism as we see it now is kind of anti-intellectual on purpose but the founders were much more intellectual and even came from the elites. They just didn’t buy the liberalism of the German schools as it spread into the American seminaries.

Anyhow, check out Machen. He had an excellent Biblical Greek study curriculum that is still used in some places today. Otherwise just his history is interesting.

I think Biblical Fundamentalism always existed. But with Modernity(Liberalism) it was challenged. Then well educated guys like Machen were able to challenge modernity formally. Meanwhile fundamentalism simply carried on along side liberalism in the churches.

 

[chevyontheriver]

I think Biblical Fundamentalism always existed. But with Modernity(Liberalism) it was challenged. Then well educated guys like Machen were able to challenge modernity formally. Meanwhile fundamentalism simply carried on along side liberalism in the churches.

Maybe, but liberalism BECAME more extreme, and the reaction to it became more extreme in counter to it.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Maybe, but liberalism BECAME more extreme, and the reaction to it became more extreme in counter to it.

O, yes,

 

[chevyontheriver]

I saw this on Facebook. It Looks interesting. $49 for subscription. I almost pushed the button but not yet.

The New Ressourcement

The New Ressourcement is a quarterly journal of theology and philosophy that serves the Church and the academy by publishing scholarly articles that demonstrate the depth and relevance of the entirety of the Catholic tradition.

newressourcement.wordonfire.org

I am STILL so tempted by this.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

I am STILL so tempted by this.

I know the feeling.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

I just got my first issue. It is actually No. 3 so there are two prior issues I did not get. But I can down load articles from the in pdf.

I thought I would start with "The Analogy of Tradition: Toward a More Radical Ressourcement" By John R Betz.

Or maybe Bishop Robert Barron's "What's New about the 'New Ressourcement'?

I want to get a better grasp of contemporary Catholic theology.

I firmly believe that theology drives the world today but is rarely talked about as such or critiqued.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Or maybe Bishop Robert Barron's "What's New about the 'New Ressourcement'?

Free access to the article:

https://assets.wordonfire.org/tnr-articles/spring-2024/TNR%201.1.1_Barron.pdf

What’s New about the ‘New Ressourcement’? The Changed Circumstances of a Perennial Project of Retrieval
by Robert Barron Diocese of Winona-Rochester, MN

General Principles of a New Ressourcement:

A first principle is this: a new ressourcement must get over the battle between Thomas and the Fathers

Second, in regard to Scripture, a new ressourcement should frankly and unapologetically adopt a patristic style of exegesis, one drawn more from the Alexandrian school than from the Antiochene

Thirdly, in regard to ethics, a new ressourcement ought to develop a virtue ethic grounded deeply in the Bible and in the saints

Finally, in regard to doctrine, a new ressourcement must read the lesser logos from the standpoint of the Logos

Particular Concerns:
The first of these, unsurprisingly, is the existence of God.
A second major area that theologians of the new ressourcement should explore is the problem of disaffiliation.
A third and final area of concentration should be the self-invention culture, which is directly repugnant to a Christian view of reality.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

This has got me pondering:

"A third and final area of concentration should be the self-invention culture, which is directly repugnant to a Christian view of reality. The existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, in its most radical form, is now the default position of practically every young person in the West. I mean, of course, the view that there is no objective truth, goodness, or beauty, and that one, accordingly, has the right and privilege of choosing one’s own values as one sees fit: “Existence precedes essence.” The Cartesian turn toward the subject, expressed in his famous Cogito ergo sum, has been radicalized beyond anything Descartes himself or even his most energetic epigones could have imagined—and it is causing a profound dissolution in the psyches of young people and wreaking real havoc in our society. The Casey decision of the US Supreme Court gives a stunning expression to this perspective—namely, that the range and power of personal liberty are so great that freedom itself determines “one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, of the mystery of human life.” Today, of course, this comes to the fore in regard even to gender. There is an infinite variety of genders precisely because there are unlimited options for the free and self-determining will."

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

A few articles on the Eucharist in the latest issue. A lot to think about.

Boyd Taylor Coolman The Eucharistic Complex in the High Middle Ages

Thomas Anthony Piolata, OFM Cap. Romano Guardini, Bonaventure, and a Eucharistic Theology of Hope


Cathal Doherty, SJ Speech in the Sacramental Sign



I think this should be good also;

Anthony J. Scordino Christ the Logos, Christ the Telos: Joseph Ratzinger’s Christological Synthesis

The New Ressourcement

The New Ressourcement is a quarterly journal of theology and philosophy that serves the Church and the academy by publishing scholarly articles that demonstrate the depth and relevance of the entirety of the Catholic tradition.

newressourcement.wordonfire.org