Dry Bones, at Patheos

[Sometimes I get a little obsessed with stuff. When I get obsessed, I can gnaw on something for a long time. When I gnaw on something for a long time, I write many posts about it. When I write many posts about something, people get lost. When people get lost, they need a map. These are maps.]

 

ENGLISH SPIRITUALITY: The Homely Way (Reflections on Martin Thornton’s English Spirituality)

​

• Become an Olympian, Become an Ascetic

• What Do Gridirons, Social Justice, and Faith Have to Do With One Another?

• Elven Bread, English Asceticism, and the Homely Factor

• The Art of Co-operating with Grace

• Jesus as an Anglican?: Articles of Religion, the Three Ways, and Scripture

• Augustine in English Spirituality: Kindled by Grace

• A Spirit of Tranquility: Benedict

​

​

Life in the Spirit: A Personal Search for a 21st-century Filling of the Holy Spirit

• Beginning the Conversation

• The Overshadowing God

• The Igniting God

• The Birthing God

• The Tending God

​

Trinitarian Spirituality: Reflections on Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine, by Khaled Anatolios

• An Introduction

• The First Question Must Be Why?

• Modern Approach #1

• Modern Approach #2

• A Third Modern Approach

• Mystagogy, Event Horizons, and the Nicene Creed

• Two Starting Principles

• Before Nicaea

• What Makes a Heretic?

• Cast of Characters, Better than a Russian Novel

• Suspicions and Semantics

• Riding the Rapids, or the Stream of Orthodox Christianity

• Creation Spirituality, Human Souls, and the Need for Systems

• How Close Is Jesus to the Heart of God?

• Putting Jesus on the “Outside” of God

• God from the Inside Out

• On the Incarnation: A New Kind of Christmas Story

• Luminosity

• Believing in the Right Direction

• An Ephesian Interlude

• Gregory’s Key to Bible Study

• The Trinity Is the Gospel

• Christodrama and the Human Journey

• A Christ Sighting

• A Julian Diversion

• Source Code

• True Love

• The End?

• What Difference Does It Make? The Kaleidoscope Effect

 

Neo-Pascalian Spirituality

• Becoming a Neo-Pascalian

• An Introduction: From Cones to Gambling

• A Personality Quirk?

• The Back Story

• The Augustinian Problem

• Poised Between Two Worlds

• (Pascal, Ash Wednesday, and the Hidden God)

• An Indiana Jones Kind of Faith

• Fire

• The Third Order

• From Gambling Table to Altar

• The First Step of Make-Believe Faith

• The Second Step Toward a Make-Believe Faith

• Diminishing Your Passions, or Increasing Your Hunger

• Setting Our Hearts

• Praying Like Elijah