Posted on 09/23/2018 4:19:58 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
HEROISM AND GENIUS is the dramatic flesh-and-blood account of the real men who built the West's civilization during the dark centuries after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
It tells the inspiring story of how these towering giants of mankind, their minds imbued with the genius of Christianity, integrated the achievements of the Jewish people, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Germanics, creating a new society that embodied the Catholic vision of God and man, time and eternity.
Although it highlights the role of priests, there are countless interesting insights into the formidable laymen and women who also shaped the new social order.
The original "institutions" of the West the book talks about are the patterns of thinking, acting and living that are original because they originate in Catholicism.
For instance, the ideals of chivalry, the romanticism of Christendom, the roots of the scientific mentality, representative government, Gothic architecture, Gregorian chant, and Free Enterprise Economics and universal education.
Historically, culture comes from cultus (cult or worship of God, in other words, religion)...And the liturgy that inspired Western Civilization was the traditional Latin Mass.
It shows in the history of the origins of Chartres Cathedral and Gregorian chant; in the inspiration for chivalry; in the utterly new spirit of romanticism that exploded in the 12th century; in the new ideal of manhood, the startling insistence on the dignity of woman; and the countless beautiful ways during winter, spring, summer and autumn whereby the ordinary men and women lived, loved and acted according to the world vision radiating from the Mass.
For everyone whether peasant or prince, intellectual or knight was absolutely clear about what the Mass was: the Sacrifice. It was the mystical enactment of the sacrificial love of Christ crucified on Calvary for the salvation of individuals and societies.
(Excerpt) Read more at churchmilitant.com ...
Yup.
The people who Jesus rebuked most frequently were religious people who were proud of their religious traditions.
Pride is a sin. Religious pride is repugnant!
Jesus is Lord - not the Catholic church!
Christianity is not behavior modification. It is not trying to 'act' like another person. We become a born-again Christian, a true Christian, when we 'believe in our heart and confess with our mouth that God raised Jesus from the dead...(Romans 10:9).
If the Roman Catholic church wishes to 'get right with the Lord', it should become: Living and Written Word focused! His name is Jesus!
Good stuff, thanks. Hope the thread doesn’t devolve....
The Empire in the East, which was just as Catholic as the West at least until 1054, endured until 1453 and never had any "Dark Ages".
You insinuated and wrongfully attempted to insert the phrase ‘behavior modification’ into the context of my remarks when I never mentioned such a thing. Are you asking for an argument?
And then you act smug and sanctimonious with our nose turned up in the air?
You are the problem.
But it was what you described in your post that JIL copied and pasted.
Here.....Although it highlights the role of priests, there are countless interesting insights into the formidable laymen and women who also shaped the new social order. The original "institutions" of the West the book talks about are the patterns of thinking, acting and living that are original because they originate in Catholicism.
We are not called to *shape new social order* nor to alter patterns of thinking.
We are called to preach the gospel and when people are born again by the Spirit of God, then they will begin to live holy and righteous lives.
It ultimately does no good to anyone to simply improve life down here for the few short years we have on this planet when we have eternity before us.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
Where'd this guy get this nonsense?
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