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copernicus: going rogue on relative motion
A little errant goes a long orbit. Displacing man from the center of the universe. What began as some computational sleights of hand to help the Church with calendar problems soon assumed a life of its own. The earth was … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Andreas Osiander, Copernican revolution, Galileo Galilei, Geocentrism, Hans Reichenbach, Heocentrism, Isaac Newton, jan brueghel the elder, John Milton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Luther, Nicholas Copernicus, Pierre Gassendi, Sir Fred Hoyle, Solomon Hart paintings
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those heretics: searching for the kingdom of saints
Mysticism, whether heretical or not, is often the refuge of defeated radicalism.Messianist German Anabaptists would become pacifist, mystical Mennonites, and the messianic English “Fifth Monarchy Men” would become pacifist, mystical Quakers. The wild millenarians, The Seers; there is no shortage … Continue reading
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Tagged Albigensian Church, Arnold of Brescia, brenda zlamany, English Fifth Monarchy Men, Joachim of Floris, John Milton, John of Leiden, John Wycliffe, Lollard Revolt, Marcel Duchamp, Mergery Kempe, Peter Waldo, Richard Rolle, Roger Waters Separation Wall, Ruysbroeck, Sami Michael, Steven Plaut, the Umiliati, The Waldenses, Thomas a Kempis
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banished and vanished
Augustus the Imperator. When you have a standing army of 300,000 men you can call yourself just about anything and people will agree with you. In 2 B.C. he had been given the title pater patriae, Father of the Nation, … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus, Augustus banishes Julia, Augustus banishes Ovid, E.M. Forster, Edmund Spenser, Horace, JMW Turner, Johann Heinrich Schonfeld, john dryden, John Milton, Joseph Mallord William Turner, L. Aemilius Paulus, Livy historian, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maecenas and Augustus, Ovid, Ovid Art of Love, Pablo Picasso, Virgil Aenid, Virgil and Horace
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end of narnia
To make theology entertaining. The seven books for children which comprises the Chronicles of Narnia, published between 1950-1956 was a high accomplishment. As “space” was the medium of his trilogy, another common science fiction element, “dimension” is that of the … Continue reading
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Tagged C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia, Chad Walsh, Charles Williams, G.K. Chesterton, George Macdonald Victorian mystic, Henry Fuseli, j.r.r. tolkein, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joy Davidman, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog
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bowing your head at the Name
If its not bent it’s broken. And if it’s not broken don’t fix it… In this sweeping theological fantasy, man is both reduced and exalted. Reduced in the naked depiction of his self-wrought condition, exalted through the mystery of the … Continue reading
from strength to strength
C.S. Lewis. The Christian spaceman who put theology into outer space and planetary adventure… The third novel in C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy series , That Hideous Strength, is a buyoant satire on the overweening pretensions of technology and the social … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, j.r.r. tolkein, Jan van Eyck, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joy Davidman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, William Blake
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finding eve: eternal mantle of the clouds
C.S. Lewis, the Apostle to the Skeptics. The man who admitted that god was god and became “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all of England.” With his space trilogy, he became the Christian spaceman… In contrast to our … Continue reading
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis Perelandra, Chad Walsh, Charles Williams, Christopher Hitchens, G.K. Chesterton, George MacDonald, George Macdonald Victorian mystic, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joy Davidman, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog
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onward christian spacemen: the turning of the screwtape
C.S. Lewis was an English man of letters who made theology a form of entertainment in The Screwtape Letters, then with his space trilogy theology went astral… The overwhelming distances of astronomy, which leaves the human helpless in the presence … Continue reading
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis Malacandra, C.S. Lewis Perelandra, Chad Walsh, Charles Williams, G.K. Chesterton, George Macdonald Victorian mystic, j.r.r. tolkein, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joy Davidman, Lucas Cranach the Elder
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