"In essence, the conservative person is simply one who finds the permanent things more pleasing than Chaos and Old Night. (Yet conservatives know, with Burke, that healthy 'change is the means of our preservation.')" -Russell Kirk
Friday, December 04, 2009
Contra Khomiakov
It has often been taken for granted among some popOrthodox apologists that Khomiakov's notion of Sobornost is the normative rule in Orthodox ecclesiology. Not so, say various Orthodox theologians.
Read about it here, and do read the discussion that follows.
Father Hunwicke on Waspish Respectability and Hatred of the Sacrament of Confession
The sexual drive is certainly very, VERY strong. That's why The Rev. Nathaniel Woodard, founder of Lancing College in Sussex, insisted his boys go to confession...to the loathing of the Victorian gentlemen of his day!!!
Read the article here.
Read the article here.
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