What a survey of intellectual-religious development, braided nicely with your own trajectory. One thing: if our current moment shares the sorting-sifting need with medieval scholars, where is our own analogue to the monastic settings where some biblical translations took place over the centuries?
That's a very good question. I think it's likely that these analogous settings are developing online in some fashion already, but I think we need on the ground, in the flesh institutions or it will all just go to the winds. We're working these problems out in real time!
Thank you for this excellent essay, tying together so many critical threads in such a thought-provoking way. Currently reading The Discarded Image, actually, for an essay I'm working on. As always, Lewis is prescient in so many ways...
Of the books I've read by him, The Discarded Image is my favorite. And yes, prescient is the word. Everyone and their mother seem to be talking about The Abolition of Man these days and for good reason. There's certainly a connection between those two texts.
Thanks for reading along, I'm glad you got something out of it.
It is definitely happening in real time, meaning that it’ll be hard to describe it definitely for a least a few years. And in-the-flesh communities will be key, I agree. I hereby throw in my hat for large country manors with gardens and porches for the sites of this work - especially if they include ponds and wine cellars.
What a survey of intellectual-religious development, braided nicely with your own trajectory. One thing: if our current moment shares the sorting-sifting need with medieval scholars, where is our own analogue to the monastic settings where some biblical translations took place over the centuries?
That's a very good question. I think it's likely that these analogous settings are developing online in some fashion already, but I think we need on the ground, in the flesh institutions or it will all just go to the winds. We're working these problems out in real time!
Thank you for this excellent essay, tying together so many critical threads in such a thought-provoking way. Currently reading The Discarded Image, actually, for an essay I'm working on. As always, Lewis is prescient in so many ways...
Of the books I've read by him, The Discarded Image is my favorite. And yes, prescient is the word. Everyone and their mother seem to be talking about The Abolition of Man these days and for good reason. There's certainly a connection between those two texts.
Thanks for reading along, I'm glad you got something out of it.
It is definitely happening in real time, meaning that it’ll be hard to describe it definitely for a least a few years. And in-the-flesh communities will be key, I agree. I hereby throw in my hat for large country manors with gardens and porches for the sites of this work - especially if they include ponds and wine cellars.
Now you're talking!