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h posted on september 12 2022 leave a comment the following argues that the re integration of the spiritual and the material social is the deepest task of both the faith work movement today and the christian study center csc movement i wrote it in 2016 after the national meeting of the consortium of christian study centers hosted that year at wheaton college the early church per robert louis wilken darrel amundsen c s lewis and many others understood truth beauty and goodness to be intrinsic inarguable and universal goods that is to be secured for all people as god wants all people to have them as had the classical world before them and drawing on the christian understanding of the material world as intrinsically good which the pagan philosophers did not share the early christians were also able to add to these three values a fourth bodily health and well being a value so vividly supported by the incarnate christ s healing activity on earth the church then proceeded to say again per wilken that while these four things are intrinsically and universally good none of them provides of itself nor even do all four taken together a suitable telos for humanity and that indeed any of them become life destroying idols when pursued in and of themselves without the transcendent referent the universal call to love and serve god this is the burden of augustine s theological discussion of uti love and frui love that is the loving of things that are not ultimate and the loving of the ultimate which is god and it is also the burden of boethius s consolation of philosophy the early christians responded to this transcendent referent by identifying three theological virtues faith hope and love which they added to the four classical cardinal virtues of prudence courage temperance and justice the new christian value of the good of bodily health along with the christianized classical values of truth beauty and goodness each informed and amplified through the transcendent referent and pursued with the help of all seven virtues birthed in the christian medieval west the institutions of the hospital the university the cathedral and liturgical art and architecture and the ethical systems of the scholastics that would lay important foundations for modern jurisprudence 1 this was the origin of huge swathes of the culture and the vocational arenas of today s world continue reading leave a comment posted in christian humanism christian humanism work economics medieval wisdom for modern protestants work with purpose tagged augustine of hippo boethius c s lewis cathedrals charles taylor christian study centers consolation of philosophy darrel amundsen evangelicalism faith and work healing health healthcare hospitals human flourishing law medieval middle ages robert louis wilken university spirituality and economic work in the middle ages complementarity not enmity part x the cistercian example iii posted on september 6 2022 leave a comment cistercians at work alexander bremen 13th c expositio en apocalypsim university library cambridge ms mm 5 31 fol 113 manuscript from northern germany wikimedia commons public domain continued from part ix nor did contemporary observers seem to think the cistercians were defined by their economic activities either used or eschewed i and indeed even the document considered to have been written in 1134 didn t single out pawning leasing sales and exchanges for censure ii 196 she concludes that the cistercians participated vigorously in the economic changes of the twelfth century while retaining the solitude of their houses and granges and the simplicity of the food clothing and liturgy that made them appear so intensely holy to their neighbors 196 by this example of simplicity and austerity bouchard argues the knights were attracted to them psychologically as they were reaching a level of social prominence at the beginning of the twelfth century thus just reach ing the point both of being able to enjoy the comforts of the aristocracy and of recognizing that the soul s salvation might lie in the rejection of them 197 but at the same time there was a social appeal of the cistercians to the knights as well because the cistercians were integrated into the rural knightly system of give and take where property transactions were used not only to transfer ownership of property but also to bind people together 197 continue reading leave a comment posted in christian humanism work economics medieval wisdom for modern protestants work with purpose tagged augustine of hippo cistercians cs lewis economics farming gregory the great monasticism prayer spirituality five themes in christian humanism iv final posted on august 31 2022 1 comment a christian humanist harmonization of truth and beauty j r r tolkien s story leaf by niggle continued from part iii 5 reason and imagination or maybe better truth and beauty because wordpress does not allow for the read more section divider crucial for shortening the part of each post that shows up on this blog s main page to be placed in the midst of a numbered list i m simply going to say here this is the last dyad of ideas that in my opinion christian humanism often in its history attempted to bring together actually one more note too after having proposed this christian humanist dyadic harmonization thesis to our seminar development team i started the other day reading the brilliant clear and well researched account by australian scholar tracey rowland of war time and post ww ii german christian humanism beyond kant and nietzsche the munich defence of christian humanism in that book i ve already discovered plenty of evidence of such dyadic harmonization in the german roman catholic thinkers whose christian humanist thought rowland so clearly and persuasively summarizes in another post i may note a few of those spots in rowland s book but for now the list continue reading 1 comment posted in christian humanism tagged alan jacobs christian humanism cs lewis dante alighieri elizabeth anscombe flannery o connor great books movement j r r tolkien jens zimmermann margarita mooney myth narrative theology walker percy five themes in christian humanism iii posted on august 30 2022 2 comments dante and his poem domenico di michelino 1417 1491 wikipedia public domain continued from part ii 4 grace and virtues the christian moral life and christian social ethics other than dissenters such as tertullian the early church was happy to absorb and adapt much of the non christian knowledge of the time classical philosophy this included knowledge in the realm of ethics and politics e g aristotle s ethics see e g robert louis wilken spirit of early christian thought thus the substance of aristotelian virtue ethics was absorbed into christian ethics culminating in aquinas s summa more recently protestant as well as catholic readers of elizabeth anscombe alasdair macintyre and other modern christian virtue ethicists have also been willing to consider the older christianized classical virtue ethics tradition as important and helpful for today however there is still a tension between that tradition and the augustinian understanding of the primacy of grace given the extreme effects of the fall in human moral life again christian humanism has worked to sustain a synthesis in this tension of virtue and grace to various degrees in various phases of the tradition list of potential subtopics follows continue reading 2 comments posted in christian humanism medieval wisdom for modern protestants tagged alasdair macintyre antony of egypt apologists aristotle augustine of hippo carl f h henry charles sheldon christian humanism cs lewis dallas willard dante alighieri david moberg dietrich bonhoeffer elizabeth anscombe evagrius pontus grace gregory the great jay wood jim wallis john calvin kevin timpe martin luther monasticism nicholas wolterstorff phoebe palmer puritans rebecca deyoung richard lovelace robert roberts ron sider seven cardinal virtues tertullian the didache the great reversal the reformation the renaissance theologia moderna theosis thomas aquinas tim keller tony campolo vices virtue ethics virtues five themes in christian humanism ii posted on august 29 2022 1 comment this mob quad group of buildings in merton college oxford was constructed in three phases and concluded in c 1378 wikipedia public domain here is the third of the five potential dyad topics for the projected seminar on christian humanism again wordpress can t handle the auto numbering in word docs sigh continued from part i faith and reason reason and the image of god in humanity the role of reason in the carrying out of the creation mandate for human flourishing illumination and education in early christian soteriological understanding the pendulum of claims for reason tertullian vs clement on the value of philosophy seminal logos understanding augustine reason and its limitations the autonomy of scientific knowledge and the critique of bad christian scientific reasoning anselm faith seeking reason modest claim aquinas moderate claim late scholasticism reason maximized atrophied and arrogant seeking to bring all knowledge under reason s command the nominalist critique the renaissance humanist critique the lutheran critique luther against the philosophers the recovery of scholasticism under melanchthon and the rise of protestant scholasticism positivist naturalist anti humanisms of wartime continue reading 1 comment posted in christian humanism christian humanism work economics medieval wisdom for modern protestants tagged anselm charles taylor christian humanism clement of alexandria critical realism faith and reason george marsden jens zimmermann jurgen habermas logos martin luther nominalism philipp melanchthon postmodernism postsecularism renaissance scholasticism science and religion scientific revolution tertullian thomas aquinas five themes in christian humanism i posted on august 27 2022 leave a comment detail of adoration of the trinity albrecht dürer public domain here s a new way i m thinking of for developing the faculty seminar on christian humanism i m doing for my friend the think tank director i like this one better than the more chronological one shared earlier i ll share this in a couple of chunks because i went a little crazy with editorializing on it this reworking suggests that we use the seminar to explore the hypothesis that christian humanism has found ways to keep together key dyads divine human faith reason virtue grace heavenly earthly reason imagination or truth beauty and that the reason the tradition has been able to do that is its strong grounding in the incarnation we could look at each of those dyads through readings across the different periods in a way that could attend to historic development without bogging down in the chronology history arguably it s not just the incarnation but the almost shocking organic unity of the god human relationship in early soteriology that grounds this whole thing that is the theosis understanding of salvation but interestingly both luther and calvin were similarly quite mystical and organic about the human god relationship there are great readings from both that show this note stupid wordpress has no idea how to deal with the automatic numbering in ms word and i don t have time to go in and change it so please ignore the plethora of 1s in the following continue reading leave a comment posted in christian humanism christian humanism work economics medieval wisdom for modern protestants tagged athanasius of alexandria augustine bernard of clairvaux c s lewis cistercians creation edith humphrey eudaemonism faith and culture faith and reason faith and work gnosticism gregory the great hans boersma healthcare heaven hospitals incarnation john calvin john of damascus martin luther maximus the confessor middle ages miroslav volf monasticism neoplatonism nt wright origen platonism relationship between religion and science sacramentalism science song of songs spirituality the incarnation theology theosis tradition spirituality and economic work in the middle ages complementarity not enmity part ix the cistercian example ii posted on august 26 2022 1 comment monks at work detail from la thebaid 1418 1420 paintings attributed to by fra angelico ca 1400 1455 tempera on panel 73 5 x208 cm florence galleria degli uffizi uffizi gallery continued from part viii bouchard s book shows that the longstanding scholarly claim that the ideals of cistercian monasticism and the rapidly developing economy of the twelfth century were incompatible does not survive close analysis of the economic and religious records so why was it made in the first place another key reason for the scholarly claims about decline due to economic engagement is the existence of the legislation of 1134 setting out what types of property were and were not suitable for cistercian monks scholars have assumed this to be a reiteration of what the monks had believed and practiced since citeaux s foundation in 1098 the document raises up farming over other economic activities so scholars have treated the early cistercians as exclusively farmers who concentrated on opening up uncultivated lands and who were economic innovators only in their pioneering use of draining methods they have therefore taken the evidence for other kinds of economic transactions as de facto evidence of declension i then the dissection of the paradigm begins first bouchard notes that it has had to be modified and re modified in recent years as evidence for non farming economic transactions has pushed earlier and earlier ii and as scholars have had to wrestle with a lack of any kind of numerical decline that would imply that the monks secular neighbors no longer valued them as holy men quite the contrary as the order continued to gain members and resources at a rapid rate this has caused scholars to back away from harsher language of decadence preferring instead to state that their ideals had not survived the encounter with certain realities iii continue reading 1 comment posted in christian humanism christian humanism work economics medieval wisdom for modern protestants work with purpose tagged bernard of clairvaux cistercians economics faith and work medieval middle ages monasticism spirituality twelfth century does christian humanism even exist is anyone really talking about it part i posted on august 24 2022 leave a comment the vitruvian man leonardo da vinci ca 1492 wikimedia commons public domain does christian humanism even exist is anyone really talking about it the answers to these questions are complex and multifold and as with any other important term christian humanism means a constellation of things for a multitude of folks but how about this for starters and these are just the books i happen to have on hand continue reading leave a comment posted in christian humanism spirituality and economic work in the middle ages 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