tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post8474346871386792190..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: Advent; The Second ComingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-34460593685685387272008-12-02T09:32:00.000-05:002008-12-02T09:32:00.000-05:00Amen, Mimi.Amen, Mimi.Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06167056789275283692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-62306237581390396732008-12-01T17:58:00.000-05:002008-12-01T17:58:00.000-05:00Davis, Mother Teresa's doubts don't worry me in th...Davis, Mother Teresa's doubts don't worry me in the least. One day, in God's perfect kingdom, we will all love one another and see the foolishness of our disputes and condemnations.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-43350932318716186872008-12-01T12:34:00.000-05:002008-12-01T12:34:00.000-05:00Mimi,Bernard and you may well not have gotten on, ...Mimi,<BR/><BR/>Bernard and you may well not have gotten on, but we have to see them (and us) as prisoners of our own times and mores. Luther, for example, comes across as a dangerous anti-semite, though he was a remarkable man in many ways. Saints are not perfect, though the popular thinking imagines them to be so. Remember also Mother Theresa's doubts...Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08370942286654104818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-70350163283724108502008-12-01T09:40:00.000-05:002008-12-01T09:40:00.000-05:00Bernard and I, very likely, would not have got on ...Bernard and I, very likely, would not have got on with each other. He was a foe of Peter Abelard, labeled a heretic, who is the source of my theory of atonement. Besides, he preached for one of the Crusades. It's hard for me to honor saints who favored Crusades.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-77180710982206445512008-12-01T08:16:00.000-05:002008-12-01T08:16:00.000-05:00Grandmere,Oh don't be embarrassed! I'm just puzzl...Grandmere,<BR/>Oh don't be embarrassed! I'm just puzzled as to why you feel that way about the tympanum sculptures. There certainly are reasonable objections to be made (and were at the time, most famously by St. Bernard of Clairvaux) to the very idea of huge stone monuments about the end of the world. So, you're in good company, though I can't see you and St. Bernard getting along very well. He was one of history's great wet blankets, party poopers, spoilers, etc.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-45704224795463036692008-11-30T23:30:00.000-05:002008-11-30T23:30:00.000-05:00Counterlight, I didn't know that about the arches....Counterlight, I didn't know that about the arches. That seems sort of silly to me, but that was their theology then, so fine. You see how ignorant I am. The arch in Chartres is gorgeous, but it's not the Apocalypse to me. I don't see how it's possible to depict something as alive as the description of the Apocalypse in Revelation in material as rigid as stone. You'll see that my reaction to art is personal and eccentric, if not downright crazy. You'll also see that there are great gaps in my knowledge of art and architecture. I'm the noble savage. My reactions are primitive. I'll probably stop telling you about them, because I'm embarrassed now.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-28666843164799936282008-11-30T23:06:00.000-05:002008-11-30T23:06:00.000-05:00Grandmere,I'm not sure I follow. The book is the ...Grandmere,<BR/>I'm not sure I follow. The book is the oldest thing I have illustrated. The whole west fronts of most Gothic cathedrals, beginning with St. Denis, were intended to be great triumphal arches to welcome the returning Messiah at the end of time. Medieval churches always face west to meet the last trumpet of the End Times.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-25770204907856097912008-11-30T18:33:00.000-05:002008-11-30T18:33:00.000-05:00An Apocalypse written in stone just doesn't seem r...An Apocalypse written in stone just doesn't seem right. I'll take the manuscript or the Chartres Window, please.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.com