Hymns in the whorehouse
A post at The Reading Experience introduced me to The New Pantagruel:"The New Pantagruel is a quarterly electronic journal run by a cadre of intemperate but friendly Catholics and Protestants who have seen other electronic journals run by Christians, and thought that while they might not be able to do better, they could certainly do no worse. The New Pantagruel does not have a doctrinal statement such as is typical for publications of this sort because its creators haven’t managed to agree on one."
Refreshing honesty in an era of circular ecumenicalism, no?
The article, "Further Scandal: Christian College Professor Doesn’t Teach from a Christian Worldview" tackles the question:
"If there is a Christian worldview, could we say that such a concept unites such historically, culturally diverse writers as the Beowulf poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, Margery Kempe, Edmund Spenser, Martin Luther, Lady Mary Sidney, John Bunyan, Jonathan Swift, Olaudah Equiano, Phyllis Wheatley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden, Graham Greene, and Flannery O’Connor? Would Coleridge’s opium addiction, Auden’s homosexuality, Bunyan’s imprisonment, Dostoyevsky’s compulsive gambling, Kierkegaard’s Danish language, and Graham Greene’s frequent adulteries color their worldviews?"
Good stuff. Basic, but vitally necessary.
posted by amcorrea @ 1/04/2005 08:14:00 PM
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I just signed up to their newsletter and was gratified to read the following:
"Private Policy:
The New Pantagruel or any of its grunt-workers, minions, servants, despots or backsliders will not do anything with your information except send you
electronic letters."
I may have to check that one out. I can see how Kierkegaard speaking Danish would be an impediment to his Christianity, at least as much as being a compulsive gambler or adulterer. He did make the language worth learning, though. Maybe I'm ignorant, but can anyone else name a great writer in Danish? (don't tell the lone Dane on my floor I said that...)
Yup. Supposedly, Danish has caused many a young saint to stumble (?!?).
Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen) and Hans Christian Anderson were also Danish.
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