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Nuntii in lingua latina
Francia Le Pen condemnat, Israel palaestinenses expellit, Trump pugilaris.

Nuntii in lingua latina

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 16:34


IN HOC PROGRAMMA’, ‘DE WHEELOCK 6th Ed. capite octavo, paginis 49-54: de de verbis in tertia coniugatione in modo indicativo in tempore praesente et imperfecto et futuro; etiam de infinitivo in tempore praesente; et de modo imperativo ‘SEQUIMUR’ [QUIA “NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA” ‘INSTRUMENTUM’ ‘AD LATINUM DISCENDUM ET DOCENDUMQUE’ ‘EST’]. ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET ITALICA’ ‘*AUDIS’! EUROPA. TRANSLATIO AB ALISSA SOUZA VERSAM EST. HYPOTHECA REARMATIONIS. // ‘CURSUS DEFENSIONIS EUROPAE’ ‘NON TAM IN CONSILIO COMMUNI NITITUR’ ‘QUAM IN REDINTEGRANDO GRADIBUS POTESTATIS IN UNIONE’ ‘ET IN ASSERTIONE UTILITATUM QUAEDAM CIVITATUM’, ‘INITIUM FACIENTE GERMANIA’. // ‘“STRATEGIA MILITARIS” URSULAE VON DER LEYEN’ ‘INFIRMUM HABET PUNCTUM PRINCIPALE’: ‘DISPONIBILITAS RERUM COPIARUM’. // ‘IN REGNO UNITO’ ‘PROCLAMATIONES BELLICAE DANTUR’ ‘SED EXERCITUS EST QUI PUGNARE’ ‘NON POSSIT’. CIVITATIBUS FOEDERATAE AMERICAE. TRANSLATIO A SAID RAIMUNDO DELGADO VERSAM EST. ‘*DEPREHENSIO’ ‘ABUSUS’ ‘ADMINISTRATIONIS TRUMP’ ‘*REVELAT’. // ‘DEPREHENSIO INIUSTA’ ‘RUMEYSAE OZTURK, PUELLAE TURCAE’ [‘*CUI’ ‘VISUM STUDII’ ‘*CONCESSUM EST’]’ ‘*OSTENDIT’: [‘*ALBANAM DOMUM’ ‘OMNEM VOCEM CRITICAM’ ‘*FERIRE VELLE’]. ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET GALLICA’ ‘*AUDIS’! FRANCIA. TRANSLATIO A SAID RAIMUNDO DELGADO VERSAM EST. ‘*MARINE LE PEN’ ‘DAMNATIONE’ ‘*AFFECTA EST’. ‘HOC’ ‘BENEDICTIO’ ‘PRO CONVENTU NATIONALI ‘*EST’. // ‘*POENA’ ‘EI’ ‘QUATTUOR ANNORUM CARCERE’ (QUORUM DUO SUSPENSI SUNT) ET ‘QUINQUE ANNORUM INELEGIBILITATE’ ‘*IMPOSITA EST’. // ‘*QUAE’ ‘GRAVIBUS EFFECTIBUS POLITICIS’ ‘*ONERATA EST’. // ‘*QUOD’ ‘BONUM NUNTIUM’ ‘ILLIS OMNIBUS QUI VOLUERUNT CONVENTUS NATIONALIS A POTESTATE ARCERE’ ‘*NON EST’. BIRMANIA. TRANSLATIO A CASANDRA FREIRE VERSAM EST. ‘*PERGUNT’ ‘*OPPUGNANTES’, [‘QUAMVIS TERRAEMOTUS’ ‘*FACTUS SIT’]. // ‘PLUS QUAM MILLE SESCENTOS’ ‘*MORTUI SUNT’ ET ‘TRIA MILIA’ ‘*LAESA SUNT’ ‘AB TERRAEMOTU DIE VIGINTI NOVEM MENSIS MARTII’. // ‘FORTISSIMO TERRAEMOTO FACTO’ ‘IN SAECULO’ ‘*EXERCITUS’ ‘*PERGIT’ ‘AD REBELLANDUM CATERVAS ETHNICAS’ ‘PRIME MAGWE’. ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET GERMANICA ‘*AUDIS’! ISRAELE. HIEROSOLYMA. RES QATARGATE. // ‘*VIGILES IUDAICI’ ‘PRINCIPIS MINISTRI DUOS SOCIOS’ ‘INQUISITIONE NUMMARIA’ ‘DE VINCULO NUMMARIO’ ‘INTER NETANJAHU ET QUATARIAM’ ‘*APPREHENDIT’. // ‘*QUATARIA, ‘UNUS EX PRECIPUIS CREDITORIBUS’, ‘PRO HAMAS’ ‘*EST’. CIVITATIBUS FOEDERATAE AMERICAE. WASINGTONIA DISTRICTU COLUMBIAE. SMITHSONIAN RESTAURATIO. // ‘*DONALDUS TRUMP’, ‘DECRETUM’ ‘*SUBSCRIPSIT’ ‘*QUOD’ ‘ABROGATIONEM DE IDEOLOGIA CONTRA AMERICAM’ ‘A SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONIBUS’ ‘*EXIGIT’. // ALIOQUI ‘SEXAGINTA CENTESIMAS’ ‘EX PECUNIAE RATIONE’ ‘IN PERICULO ERUNT’. // SENTENTIA ANTIQUA CONEXA EX WHEELOCK AUDI: “O AMICI, LIBERTATEM PERDIMUS”. ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET LUSITANA’ ‘AUDIS’! GAZA. RAFAH. // PEREGRINATIONES MAGNAE. // ‘*ISRAELIS COPIAE’ ‘IN GAZA’ ‘ALTIUS *PENETRAVIT’ ET ‘PALESTINENSIBUS’ ‘PEREGRINARI’ ‘EX THEATRO BELLI (ANGLICE “COMBAT ZONE”)’ ‘IMPERAVIT’. // ‘ISRAELIS PROPOSITA’ ‘SUNT’: // ‘SPATIUM PRO SECURITATE ET LIBERTATEM HABERE’, ‘FINIRE TERRORISTAS VEL TOMOCRATAS’ ET CONSEQUERE VICTORIAM’. // SENTENTIA ANTIQUA CONEXA EX WHEELOCK AUDI: “NUMQUAM PERICULUM SINE PERICULO VINCEMUS”. ‘{De Wheelock 6th Ed. Capite 8, Paginis 49-54. In hoc nuntio inveni: de verbis in tertia coniugatione in modo indicativo in tempore praesente et imperfecto et futuro; etiam de infinitivo in tempore praesente; et de modo imperativo. 3 verba ex lexicon, 1 sententiam antiquam ex capite 8, 4 verba in infinitivo praesente, 1 verbum in futuro in indicativo inveni. NORVEGIA. ANDOYA. // RADIUS IGNIFER PROPELLITUR. // ‘PRIMUS RADIUS IGNIFER (SEU ROCHETA, VEL MISSILE IGNEUM) COMMERCIALIS’ ‘EX EUROPA PROPULSUS’ ‘CONFRINGITUR’. // ‘IN MARE NORVEGICO’ ‘CADIT’ ‘POST TRIGINTA TEMPORIBUS MOMENTIS’ ‘VOLANS’. // ‘ISAR *PRAETOR’ ‘*DIXIT’ ‘[SUCCESSUM ET NUNQUAM RUINAM FUISSE]’ ‘QUIA’ ‘DATA’ ‘*COLLEGIMUS’ ET MULTA DISCEMUS [UT DOCEAMUS ET DEMONSTREMUS]. // SENTENTIAS ANTIQUAS CONEXAS EX WHEELOCK AUDI: “NON VITAE, SED SCHOLAE, DISCIMUS” ET “HOMINES, DUM DOCENT, DISCUNT”. ‘{De Wheelock 6th Ed. Capite 8, Paginis 49-54. In hoc nuntio inveni: de verbis in tertia coniugatione in modo indicativo in tempore praesente et imperfecto et futuro; etiam de infinitivo in tempore praesente; et de modo imperativo. 4 verba ex lexicon, 1 verbum in futuro in modo indictivo et 2 sententias ex capite 8 inveni. ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET SINENSIS PINYIN’ ‘*AUDIS’! SINIS. TRANSLATIO A FERNANDA SOLÍS VERSAM EST. ‘GLADIUS IUSTITAE TIWANO: “SUI IURIS FACIET”. // ‘PRIMUM DIE APRILIS MENSIS ANNO BIS MILLESIMO VICESIMO QUINTO: ‘EXERCITUS POPULORUM LIBERORUM SINAE’ ‘CATERVAM SEPARATISTAM’ ‘*DENUNTIAT’. ‘SINAE’ NUMQUAM ‘CONATIONES’ ‘CONTRA SEPARATIONEM TIWANI’ ‘*TOLERABIT’, ‘QUIA’ ‘TIWAN’ ‘TERRA FRATERNA’ ‘*EST’. SINIS. TRANSLATIO A CASANDRA FREIRE VERSAM EST. ‘PECUNIAM IN SINIS COLLOCARE’ ‘IN FUTURUM’ ‘*COLLOCAT’. // ‘PER DUO MILLE VIGINTI QUATTUOR’ ‘CIRCITER SEXAGINTA MILIA NOVAE SOCIETATES IN SINIS’ ‘*ERUNT’. // ‘* SINAE’ ‘DUCES’ ‘*SUNT’ ‘IN INVESTIGATIONE PROGRESSOQUE’, [‘QUO MAGNUM MERCATUM SUAE’, ‘STABILIA CONSILIA ET ALTA’ ‘*REDIT’]. // ‘COLLOCARE IN SINIS BONUM’ ‘*EST’ [‘*UTI’ ‘MERCATU ET OCCASIONIBUS INNOVATIONIBUS’]. LEXICON EX “GAZA…” adiuvante chatGPT: • altius – higher, deeper (comparative adverb from altus, meaning "high" or "deep") • audī – listen! (imperative passive of audiō, "to hear", used here as a citation formula, e.g., "hear this saying") • belli – of war (genitive singular of bellum, "war") — indicates possession: "of the war" • comitatūs – (not directly present but implied) from “combat zone” (translated into Latin as theatrum belli) – combat, battle area • copiae – forces, troops (nominative plural of copia, "supply", often used in plural for military forces) • ex – from, out of (preposition + ablative) • et – and (coordinating conjunction) • finīre – to end (present active infinitive of finiō, "I finish/end") – purpose or intention verb • Gaza – Gaza (proper noun, a place name in apposition, treated as indeclinable here) • habēre – to have (present active infinitive of habeō) • imperāvī – I ordered (perfect indicative active of imperō, though not in present – likely narrative past) • in – in, on (preposition + ablative or accusative) • Israēlis – of Israel / Israeli (genitive singular, or adjective used as noun; from Israēl) – used as an ethnic/political adjective • libertātem – freedom (accusative singular of libertās) • magnae – great (genitive/dative/nominative feminine plural of magnus) – here modifies peregrinationes • numquam – never (adverb) • palēstinēnsibus – to/for the Palestinians (dative plural of palaestinēnsis) – indirect object • penetrāvī – I have penetrated (perfect active indicative of penetrō, again not present tense) • perīculum – danger (nominative or accusative singular of perīculum) • peregrinārī – to migrate, to travel (present deponent infinitive of peregrinor) • peregrīnātiōnēs – journeys, pilgrimages (nominative plural of peregrīnātiō) • perīculō – with/through danger (ablative singular of perīculum) • pro – for, on behalf of (preposition + ablative) • proposita – plans, purposes (nominative or accusative plural neuter of propositum) • punctum – (not in text, just for context: would mean "point") • Rafah – Rafah (indeclinable proper noun, a place name) • securitāte – security (ablative singular of securitās) • sententia – saying, opinion (nominative singular) • spatium – space (nominative or accusative singular neuter) • sine – without (preposition + ablative) • sunt – they are (3rd person plural present indicative of sum, "to be") • terroristās – terrorists (accusative plural of terrorista) • theātrō – theater (ablative singular of theātrum) • tomocratas – (neologism) "tomocrats" – possibly a coined word from Greek τόμος (cut, segment) and kratos (power), meaning "rule by force or division" (used metaphorically for oppressors or violent rulers) • vincemus – we will conquer (future active indicative of vinco, "I conquer") – in the quote • victoriam – victory (accusative singular of victoria) LEXICON EX “NORVEGIA…” adiuvante chatGPT: • Andoya – Andøya (place name). Proper noun, name of a location in Norway; indeclinable and used as a geographical reference. • cadō – I fall. Verb, present indicative active, 1st person singular; used metaphorically or literally to describe falling or collapsing. • collegō – I collect, I gather. Verb, present indicative active, 1st person singular; to bring things together, especially data or information. • commercialis – commercial. Adjective meaning “relating to commerce”; describes something for business use or civilian (non-military) purpose. • data – data, pieces of information. Noun, plural form of datum; neuter nominative plural. Refers to facts, statistics, or recorded information. • discō – I learn. Verb, present indicative active, 1st person singular; acquiring knowledge or understanding. • dēmōnstrō – I demonstrate, I show. Verb, present indicative active, 1st person singular; to explain clearly or point out by evidence or example. • doceō – I teach. Verb, present indicative active, 1st person singular; to instruct or impart knowledge. • Europa – Europe. Proper noun, nominative singular; the continent, used here as point of origin. • homō – human being, person. Noun, nominative singular masculine; appears in plural in the text (homines), used in general sense. • ignifer – fire-bearing, fiery. Adjective, masculine nominative singular; literally "fire-carrying", referring to missiles or rockets. • Isar – Isar (proper name). Likely a personal name or title; indeclinable in the text, possibly Germanic in origin. • mare – sea. Noun, neuter nominative singular; refers to the body of water, in this case the Norwegian Sea. • missile – missile, projectile. Noun, neuter nominative singular; modern Latin term for guided weapon or rocket. • momentum – moment, instant. Noun, neuter nominative singular; a brief period of time, used with temporal meaning. • multus – much, many. Adjective, masculine nominative singular; appears in plural (multa) in the text. • Norvegia – Norway. Proper noun, nominative singular; modern Latin for the country of Norway. • praetor – praetor, commander, leader. Noun, masculine nominative singular; a Roman magistrate; here metaphorically used for a spokesperson or authority. • primus – first. Adjective, masculine nominative singular; denotes order or precedence. • propellō – I propel. Verb, present indicative active, 1st person singular; to push forward or launch. • radius – ray, beam, missile. Noun, masculine nominative singular; can refer to a physical beam or a projectile in this context. • rochēta – rocket. Feminine noun, nominative singular; Latinized form of "rocket", used in technical or military Latin. • schola – school. Feminine noun, nominative singular; institution of learning, part of the ancient saying quoted. • sententia – opinion, saying, sentence. Feminine noun, nominative singular; used here as a philosophical or proverbial quote. • successus – success. Masculine noun, nominative singular; favorable outcome or result. • tempus – time. Neuter noun, nominative singular; a period or point in time. • trīgintā – thirty. Numeral, indeclinable; denotes a quantity of thirty. • volō – I fly. Verb, present indicative active, 1st person singular; to move through the air, here describing a missile in motion. SI NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA TRADUCTOR ESSE VOLUERIS, QUAESO LITTERAM ELECTRONICAM AD lpesquera@up.edu.mx MITTAS’. If you would like to collaborate as a translator in Nuntii in Lingua Latina, please send an email to lpesquera@up.edu.mx

Nuntii in lingua latina
Trump bellum commerciale in orbe terrarium initiaturum est.

Nuntii in lingua latina

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2025 21:09


IN HOC PROGRAMMA’ ‘DE WHEELOCK 6th , Ed. capite quinto, paginis 31-36: de verbis in prima et secunda coniugationibus in modo indicativo termporibus futuro et imperfecto; et adiectivis finitis in “ -er” ‘SEQUIMUR’ [QUIA “NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA” ‘INSTRUMENTUM’ ‘AD LATINUM DISCENDUM ET DOCENDUMQUE’ ‘EST’]. 17 ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET ITALICA’ ‘*AUDIS’! RE PUBLICA FOEDERATA GERMANIAE. TRANSLATIO AB SAID RAIMUNDO DELGADO VERSAM EST. TAM CELER QUAM LEOPARDUS. ‘SOCIETAS GERMANICA*, RHEINMETALL NOMINATA’, [‘*QUAE ‘FAMOSUM BELICUM CURRUM’ ‘*FABRICAT’], ‘VICESIMA PARTE EX CENTENIS’ ‘IN FORO MERCATORIO’ ‘TANTUM UNO ANNO’ ‘*CREVIT’. ‘*SUMMUM’ ‘A BELLO UCRAINAE ET REARMAMENTO EUROPAE’ ‘*IMPULSUM EST.’ ‘*CURSUS ADHUC ‘*NON FINIT’. DANIA. PROHIBITIO CONTRA TELEPHONA GESTABILIA IN SCHOLIS ERIT. // ‘DANORUM *REGNUM’ ‘TELEPHONA GESTABILIA’ ‘IN SCHOLIS ET IN CONSOCIATIONES PRO DISCIPULIS’ ‘REGIMINIS ADMONITIONE’ ‘*PROHIBITURUM EST’ . // QUOQUE, QUOD ‘*PUERI’ ‘SINE TREDECIM ANNOS NATI’ ‘TELEPHONUM GESTABILEM VEL TABULAM COMPUTATRALEM’ ‘NON *HABEANT’ . AD HOC NUNTIUM, WHEELOCK PROSPICIENS, ADDO. SIC PUERI PULCHRI ET SANI REMANEBUNT. // ETIAM, WHEELOCK SENTENTIAS ANTIQUAS AUDI: “PROPTER ADULESCENTIAM, FILII 18 MEI, MALA VITAE NON VIDEBATIS” ET “AMABO TE, CURA FILIAM MEAM” {De Wheelock 6th Ed. Capite 5, Paginis 31-36. In hoc nuntio inveni: ¿Quot adiectiva finita in “ -er” invenis, quae sunt? ¿Verba in prima et secunda coniugationibus in modo indicativo temporibus future et imperfect invenis, quot? ¿Lexicon et sententias ex capite 5 invenis, quae sunt?}. ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET GALLICA’ ‘*AUDIS’! TURCIA. TRANSLATIO AB ALISSA SOUZA VERSAM EST. 'DIE VIGESIMO SEPTIMO FEBRUARII MENSE', '*DUX HISTORICUS PKK, ABDULLAH ÖCALAN', 'AD DISSOLUTIONEM MOTUS ARMATI' '*VOCAVIT' [POST QUATTOR DECENNIA BELLI GUERRILLAE']. // '*VOCATIO PROCESSUM' '*INCERTUM APERIT' 'SECUNDUM ACTAM DIURNAM'. UCRAINA. TRANSLATIO AB SAID RAIMUNDO DELGADO VERSAM EST. PAX QUANTO CONSTĀBIT? ‘*NUNTIUS DE SUSPENSIONE SUBSIDII MILITARIS CIVITATUM FOEDERATARUM’ ‘TRIBUS DIEBUS POST PUGNAM INTER TRUMP ET ZELENSKY IN SCRINIO OVALI’ ‘UCRANIAM’ ‘IN ANGUSTIIS’ ‘*POSUIT’. PREAETEREA, ‘APPROQUINQUATIO INTER VASIGNTONIAM ET MOSCUAM’ 19 ‘EUROPAM SUAM DEFENSIONEM REPETERE’ ‘*COGIT’. ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET GERMANICA ‘*AUDIS’! EUROPA. ¡AVE VALE EUROPA! ‘*CIVITATES FOEDERATAE AMERICAE’ ‘DEMOCRATIAS OCCIDENTALES’ ‘IN OCTOGINA ANNOS’ ‘*DUXERUNT’ . // NUNC, DONALDO TRUMP, ‘PECUNIA ET POTESTAS’ ‘PRO SOCIIS’ ‘MAGNI AESTIMANDA SUNT’ . SENTENTIAM ANTIQUAM EX WHEELOCK AUDI: “ANGUSTUS ANIMUS PECUNIAM AMAT” . SINIS. BALNEUM SOLE. // ‘*SINAE’ ‘CIVITAS MAXIMA CONTAMINANS’ ‘CONTRA CLIMATIS IMMUTATIONEM’ ‘*EST’ . // SED CONTRA, ‘*SINAE’ ‘MAGNAS STATIONES ENERGIA SOLARIS’ ‘*AEDIFICAT’ . ‘QUINQUE EX DECEM MAGNAS *STATIONES ENERGIAE SOLARIS’ ‘EX ORBE TERRARUM’ ‘IN SINIS’ ‘*SUNT’ . // QUOQUE, ‘*SINAE’ ‘OBLATIONEM DE ENERIGA VENTOSA’ ‘AMPLIAT’ . ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA ET ANGLICA’ ‘*AUDIS’! CIVITATIBUS FOEDERATAE AMERICAE. 20 VASINGTONIA, CAPUT FOEDERATARUM AMERICAE. // COPIA EX NUMMIS ELECTRONICIS. ‘*PRETIA’ ‘IN NUMMIS ELECTRONICIS’ ‘HEBODMADA ANTERIOR’ ‘TRUMP PRAECEPTO’ *AUGMENTAVERUNT’ . // ‘DONALDUS *TRUMP’ ‘CONSILIUM’ ‘CONSILIARIS’ ‘AD COPIAM EX NUMMIS ELECTRONICIS CREANDUM’ ‘*IUSSERAT’ . // ‘COPIA EX NUMMIS ELECTRONICIS’ ‘EX ETHEREUM, SOLANA, EX-ER-PE ET CARDANO’ ‘*FIENDA EST’ . AD HOC NUNTIUM, WHEELOCK PROSPICIENS, ADDO. IGITUR, SI HOC SUFFICIT, TRUMP GLORIAM HABEBIT; SI CALAMITAS EST, TRUMP CULPAM CULPABUNT. // ETIAM, WHEELOCK SENTENTIAM ANTIQUAM AUDI: “SEMPER GLORIA ET FAMA TUA MANEBUNT” {De Wheelock 6th Ed. Capite 5, Paginis 31-36. In hoc nuntio inveni: ¿Quot adiectiva finita in “ -er” invenis, quae sunt? ¿Verba in prima et secunda coniugationibus in modo indicativo temporibus future et imperfect invenis, quot? ¿Lexicon et sententias ex capite 5 invenis, quae sunt?}. COREA SEPTENTRIONALIS. ‘*OFFICIUM FOEDERALE INVESTIGATORIUM (ABBREVIATIONE “EF-BE-I”)’ ‘AD PYEONGYANG’ ‘DE FURTO’ ‘EX UNO PUNCTO QUINQUE MILLIARDORUM DOLLARIORUM’ ‘ACCUSAT’ . ‘*EF-BE-I’ ‘*DECLARAVIT’ [‘RAPINAM MAXIMAM’ ‘IN HISTORIA’ ‘*ESSE’]. 21 ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET HISPANICA’ ‘*AUDIS’! MEXICO. CULIACANA sive CULIACANO. CHARTELLA IN SUSPENSO ANIMO SUNT. // ‘PUBLICAE AUCTORITATES MEXICANAS’ ‘INCURSIONES’ ‘CONTRA CHARTELLA, QUAE MEDICAMENTA STUPEFACTIVA EX FENTANILO GENERIS OPIORUM CONFERUNT’ ‘COERCITIONE , EX TRUMP’ ‘*AUGENT’ . // ‘CHARTELLUM *DUCES’ ‘LABORATORIA AD MEDICAMENTA STUPEFACTIVA FACIENDA’ ‘ALIBI’ ‘IAM *MOVENT’ . WHEELOCK SENTENTIAS ANTIQUAS AD AUCTORITATES MEXICANAS AUDI: “SUPERA ANIMOS ET IRAM TUAM” , ETIAM “VITA HUMANA EST SUPPLICIUM” . {De Wheelock 6th Ed. Capite 5, Paginis 31-36. ¿Lexicon et sententias ex capite 5 invenis, quae sunt?}. IRANIA. TEHERANII PRAESIDENS VICARIUS ABDICAT. ‘IRANIAE *PRAESIDENS VICARIUS PRO STRATEGEMATUM REBUS, QUI PRO DIALOGO CUM OCCIDENTE SUPEREST’ ‘*ABDICAVIT’ . // , ‘*COLAPHUS’ ‘PRAESIDENTI MASOUD PEZESHKIAN’ ‘*EST’ . 22 ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET RUSSICA’ ‘AUDIS’! TRANSLATIONES A SAID RAYMUNDO DELGADO VERSA SUNT. RUSSIA. TRANSLATIO A CASANDRA FREIRE VERSAM EST. ‘‘*EXERCITUS RUSSIAE’ ‘PLUS QUAM SEPTUAGINTA QUINQUE CIVES IN UCRAINA’ ‘*NECABAT’, ‘‘POSTQUAM’ *TRUMP’ ‘*DICIT’ [‘*PUTIN’ BELLUM FINIRE’ ‘*VELLE’]. // ‘SI ‘*DONALD TRUMP’ ‘*CREDENDUM EST’ ‘*VLADIMIR , PUTIN’, ‘[‘*QUI’ ‘BELLUM’ ‘IN UCRAINA’ ‘*INCOHABAT’], ‘NUNC HANC FINIRE’ ‘*VULT’ . // ‘*QUAESTIO’ ‘*EST’, ‘QUOD DUM ‘*TRUMP’ ‘AD CONCORDIAM CUM KREMLIN DE COOPERATIONE ARTICA’ ‘*INTENDIT’ ET ‘RESTITUTIONEM “NORD STREAM” SECUNDUS’ ‘SIMUL ETIAM FINE ACTIONIS MILITARIS’, ‘*EXERCITUS RUSSIAE’ ‘AD BOMBAS UCRAINAE’ ‘*PERGIT’ . RUSSIA. ‘RUSSIAE *REGIONES’ ‘ ACCEPTARE MIGRANTES’ ‘A SYRIA’ ‘*INCIPIUNT’ . // IAM NONAGINTA QUINQUE MIGRANTES A SYRIA AD YAKETERINBURG ADVENIUNT. // PLURIMAE MULIERES ET PUERI SUNT. ‘NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA’ ‘IN LINGUA LATINA, ANGLICA ET SINENSIS PINYIN’ ‘*AUDIS’! 23 SINIS. SINAE MEDICINA TRADITA (ABBREVIATIONE “TE-CE-EM”) AD SOCIETATEM FACILITER ADVENIT. // ‘*OPERARII EX LITORIS OCCIDENTALIS QINGDAO VALETUDINARIUM NOVUM DE “TE-CE-EM”’ ‘CONSILIA MEDICA’ ‘GRATIS *DANT’ . // ‘*INCOLAE’ ‘COMMODUM’ ‘FRUUNTUR’ . AD HOC NUNTIUM, WHEELOCK PROSPICIENS, ADDO. IGITUR, SANI, PULCHRI, ET LIBERI REMANEBUNT; ETIAM INFIRMITATEM SUPERABUNT. {De Wheelock 6th Ed. Capite 5, Paginis 31-36. In hoc nuntio inveni: ¿Verba in prima et secunda coniugationibus in modo indicativo temporibus future et imperfect invenis, quot? ¿Lexicon ex capite 5 invenis, quae sunt?}. SINIS. TRANSLATIO A CASANDRA FREIRE VERSAM EST. ‘*PRODEST’ ‘A TRIBUTIS E BELLO SINARUM’? // ‘*TRUMP’ ‘DECEM CENTESIMAE TRIBUTORUM’ ‘*NUNTIAVIT’ ‘IN SINENSES INVECTIONES’ . // ‘SECUNDUM INSTITUTUM PETERSON’ ‘*NONAGINTA CENTESIMAE SUMPTI ET NEGOTIAE’ ‘AB AMERICANIS SUMPTIS OMISSIS’ ‘*PORTATA SUNT’ ‘CUM , ‘*SINA’ ‘TANTUM SUMPTIBUS BONORUM MEDIARUM TREDECIM CENTESIMIS’ ‘*AUXIT’ . // ‘QUAMQUAM HOC’ , ‘*TRUMP’ ‘*PERGIT’ ‘PORTORIAS 24 PROMOVERE ‘[UT "AMERICAS MAGNAM DENUO’ ‘*FACERE"]. LEXICON EX “DANIA” (adiuvante chatGPT) Nomina et adiectiva: • adulescentia – youth • annos (accusative plural of annus) – years • consociationes (accusative plural of consociatio) – associations • cura – care • Danorum (genitive plural of Dani) – of the Danes • disciplulis (dative/ablative plural of discipulus) – for/to the students • filiam (accusative singular of filia) – daughter • filii (nominative plural/genitive singular of filius) – sons (or of the son) • gestabile (neuter nominative/accusative singular of gestabilis) – portable • hoc (neuter nominative/accusative singular of hic) – this • mala (nominative/accusative plural of malum) – evils • meam (accusative singular feminine of meus) – my • nati (nominative plural of natus) – born • nuntium (accusative singular of nuntium) – message • prohibitio – prohibition • prohibiturum (accusative singular neuter of prohibiturus) – going to be prohibited • pueri (nominative plural/genitive singular of puer) – boys (or of the boy) 25 • pulchri (nominative plural/genitive singular of pulcher) – beautiful • regimen (accusative singular of regimen) – government • regnum – kingdom • sanus – healthy • scholis (dative/ablative plural of schola) – for/to/in schools • sententias (accusative plural of sententia) – sentences • tabulam (accusative singular of tabula) – tablet • telephona (nominative/accusative plural of telephonum) – telephones • telephonum (nominative singular of telephonum) – telephone • tredecim – thirteen • vitae (genitive singular/nominative plural of vita) – of life / lives • Wheelock (indeclinable proper noun) – Wheelock Verba: • addo – I add • amabo – I will love (future, but included for context) • audis (2nd person, but included for context) – you hear • curo – I care for • habeant (subjunctive, but included for context) – they may have • prospiciens (participle, but included for context) – looking forward • remanebunt (future, but included for context) – they will remain 26 • sententias (accusative plural of sententia, not a verb but included) – sentences • videtis (2nd person plural, but included for context) – you see LEXICON EX “VASINGTONIA… ” (adiuvante chatGPT) Nomina et adiectiva: • America – America The continent or country, depending on context. • calamitas – disaster A great misfortune, often used to describe political or financial crises. • caput – capital Literally "head," but here refers to the capital city (Washington, D.C.). • cardano – Cardano A reference to the cryptocurrency platform. • copia – supply, abundance Refers to the availability or stock of something, in this case, digital currency. • consiliarius – advisor Someone who gives advice or counsel, especially in political matters. • consilium – plan, council Can refer to a strategy, decision, or advisory group. • culpa – blame, fault Responsibility for a mistake or failure. • Donaldus – Donald (Trump) A proper name in Latinized form. • ethereum – Ethereum A well-known cryptocurrency, kept as an indeclinable noun. 27 • ex-er-pe – XRP The Latinized form of the cryptocurrency XRP (Ripple). • fama – fame, reputation Could refer to renown, public opinion, or legacy. • fienda (gerundive form of "fio") – to be made, to be done Indicates necessity or obligation (e.g., "must be done"). • foederatus – federated, allied Refers to a political union, as in the United States ("Foederatae Americae"). • gloria – glory Often used in political or military contexts, signifying honor and fame. • hebdomada – week A period of seven days. • iussum – order, command An authoritative directive, often from a ruler or government. • nummus – coin, currency Any form of money, both physical and digital. • pretium – price, value The worth or cost of an item, here referring to cryptocurrency prices. • praeceptum – instruction, command A rule or directive given by an authority. • sententia – opinion, thought, saying A philosophical or political statement, often quoted from classical sources. • solana – Solana A reference to the cryptocurrency, kept as an indeclinable noun. 28 • Trump – Trump A proper name, left unchanged as it is indeclinable. • Vasingtonia – Washington (D.C.) The Latinized name for the U.S. capital. Verba: • addo – I add Used when contributing something new to a discussion or statement. • audi (imperative form, included for context) – listen A command to pay attention, often used in rhetorical speech. • habeo – I have, I hold Expresses possession or control over something. • iubeo – I order Indicates giving an authoritative command. • manebo (future tense, but included for context) – I will remain Describes continuity or lasting presence. • prospicio – I foresee, I look forward Indicates anticipating or predicting future events. LEXICON EX “CULIACANA… ” (adiuvante chatGPT) Nomina et adiectiva: • alibi – elsewhere Indicates a different place, often used in legal or military contexts. • auctoritas – authority, power Refers to official power or legitimacy, as in government authorities. 29 • animus – mind, spirit Denotes emotional state, courage, or intention. • chartella – cartel (diminutive form) A term referring to criminal organizations, particularly drug cartels. • chartellum – cartel (neutral singular) Another variant of "cartella," used to refer to a singular cartel entity. • coercitio – coercion, enforcement Refers to the act of forcing compliance through authority or military means. • Culiacana / Culiacano – Culiacán The Latinized name of Culiacán, a city in Mexico. • dux – leader, chief Used for high-ranking figures, such as cartel leaders or military commanders. • fentanilum (not in the text, but implied) – fentanyl A synthetic opioid, here referring to drug trafficking. • generis (genitive of "genus") – kind, type Indicates a category or classification, e.g., "of the opioid type." • incursio – incursion, raid A military or police operation against a target. • laboratorium – laboratory A facility for manufacturing or experimenting, in this case, drug production sites. • medicamentum – medicine, drug Refers to substances with medical or chemical effects, legal or illicit. 30 • Mexicanus – Mexican Describes something or someone related to Mexico. • opium – opium A narcotic substance, root of many modern opioids. • publicus – public, official Used for government-related entities or policies. • suspensio – suspense, uncertainty Describes a state of anxiety or waiting. • supplicium – punishment, suffering Can mean execution, severe penalty, or metaphorically, a difficult life. • Trump – Trump A proper name, left unchanged as it is indeclinable. • vita – life Used in philosophical and political contexts. • Wheelock – Wheelock A proper noun, referring to the author of a famous Latin textbook. Verba: • augeo – I increase, I amplify Describes an action that strengthens or expands something (e.g., military operations). • facio – I make, I do A highly versatile verb, here related to drug manufacturing. • moveo – I move, I shift Indicates relocating an object or operation to another place. 31 • supero – I overcome, I surpass Used to express overcoming emotions, enemies, or obstacles. SI NUNTII IN LINGUA LATINA TRADUCTOR ESSE VOLUERIS, QUAESO LITTERAM ELECTRONICAM AD lpesquera@up.edu.mx MITTAS’. If you would like to collaborate as a translator in Nuntii in Lingua Latina, please send an email to lpesquera@up.edu.mx

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 3, 2025 is: draconian • dray-KOH-nee-un • adjective Draconian describes something (often a law, policy, restriction, etc.) that is very severe or cruel. // The editorial criticizes the draconian measures being taken by city hall to rein in spending. See the entry > Examples: “The auras that surround the Sharks and the Hawks are wildly distinct, even if the teams' records are close to the same. To put it in Chicago terms, one team has the vibe of a Ferris Bueller (plays hooky, joins random parades, chicks dig him)—and the other is, I'm sorry to say, increasingly Principal Rooney–esque (grim faced, tightly wound, represents a draconian institution).” — Katie Baker, The Ringer, 15 Jan. 2025 Did you know? Draconian comes from Drakōn, the name (later Latinized as Draco) of a 7th-century B.C. Athenian legislator who created a written code of law. Drakōn's code was intended to clarify existing laws, but its severity is what made it really memorable. According to the code, even minor offenses were punishable by death, and failure to pay one's debts could result in slavery. Draconian, as a result, is used especially for authoritarian actions that are viewed as cruel or harsh.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 3, 2025 is: draconian • dray-KOH-nee-un • adjective Draconian describes something (often a law, policy, restriction, etc.) that is very severe or cruel. // The editorial criticizes the draconian measures being taken by city hall to rein in spending. See the entry > Examples: “The auras that surround the Sharks and the Hawks are wildly distinct, even if the teams' records are close to the same. To put it in Chicago terms, one team has the vibe of a Ferris Bueller (plays hooky, joins random parades, chicks dig him)—and the other is, I'm sorry to say, increasingly Principal Rooney–esque (grim faced, tightly wound, represents a draconian institution).” — Katie Baker, The Ringer, 15 Jan. 2025 Did you know? Draconian comes from Drakōn, the name (later Latinized as Draco) of a 7th-century B.C. Athenian legislator who created a written code of law. Drakōn's code was intended to clarify existing laws, but its severity is what made it really memorable. According to the code, even minor offenses were punishable by death, and failure to pay one's debts could result in slavery. Draconian, as a result, is used especially for authoritative actions that are viewed as cruel or harsh.

Akbar's Chamber - Experts Talk Islam
Orientalism Reconsidered: Collecting Islamic Manuscripts in Seventeenth Century Europe

Akbar's Chamber - Experts Talk Islam

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2024 63:42


In 1632, the University Library at Cambridge was transformed by the arrival of an extraordinary collection of manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, and Malay. They were collected by an early Dutch orientalist, Thomas Van Erpe, better known by his Latinized name Erpinius. To mark the four hundredth anniversary of his death in 1624, Cambridge University Library has mounted a major exhibition of Erpinius's manuscript.  For a brief tour of the exhibition, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kCe865F7Ek Even today, the collection continues to teach researchers important new insights into not only the Islamic past, but also into the origins of European orientalism. In this episode, we trace the background of Erpinius's interest in Islam, before following his career as a linguist and manuscript collector that took him from his native Holland to the university cities of Europe, then Venice, before being appointed Professor of Arabic at Leiden University in 1613. Together with his writings and manuscript collection, this made him a key—but altogether complex—founder of orientalism.  Nile Green talks to Majid Daneshgar, the curator of the exhibition at Cambridge and the author of Studying the Quran in the Muslim Academy (Oxford, 2020).

The 92 Report
111. Philip Nikolayev, The Poetry of Language

The 92 Report

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 45:15


Philip Nikolayev, a Russian historian, poet, and marketer went directly into grad school in the history department at Harvard, where he received a master's degree. However, his field of medieval Russian history collapsed during his PhD due to funding dwindling after the fall of the USSR in 1992.  From Russian History to Search Engine Marketing Philip was interested in studying Russian history from a Western analytical perspective. He quit his graduate program at Harvard when he realized his studies in Russian history didn't translate into paying work. A polymath with a child on the way, Philip secured a position as a software engineer, but when the dot.com bubble burst, he decided to continue his studies with a PhD in textual scholarship. Intellectually, Philip's career has been far-flung, with no jobs in his field and a need for financial stability, he worked as VP of Marketing for a high-tech company and later started a small business in marketing, seeking clients based on breakthroughs in science and technology. He seeks clients whose technology he can study and translate into the market language. Working as a Translator and Writing Poetry Philip's core interests include poetry and had a love for poetry from a young age. Philip has always been bilingual and although he grew up in the U.S.S.R, he spoke English from a young age. Philip went to Harvard at the age of 24 as a transfer student and became deeply immersed in English. He started working as an interpreter and translator when he was 18 in Moscow, switching languages in terms of writing poetry. His first American poet friend, Ben Naser, encouraged him to continue doing it. He has since published several books of poetry in English and volumes of translation. Philip speaks ten languages, and has translated a lot of Ukrainian poetry, resulting from the war Russia is unjustly waging in Ukraine. A Ukrainian issue of a well-known American Poetry Magazine called the Cafe Review has just come out, co-edited by Philip and Anna Halberstadt as guest editors.  The Romanticisation of Russian History Philip talks about his role as a translator and his work as an interpreter for writers and poets during Perestroika. The conversation turns to Philip's work as a poet and learning languages, including Romanian and why he loves the musicality of language. He also talks about studying Russian history from a western perspective, which he believes is more accurate than the Romantic tradition. Russian history is often written with a patriotic bias, which combines with the idea that nations are ancient and have traditions. This romanticism often leads to the idea that all people of a country form a single nation with one ideology and similar ideals and values. Napoleon exploited this idea to persuade Frenchmen to join the first mass levy army and give their lives for France. Philip also discusses the concept of nationhood in Russia, which he believes is a new idea. The word "Russia" was coined under Peter the Great in the early 18th century, and it is a Latinized form of the name Rus, which shows a Western influence. This was the name of the first dynasty that came to rule the space that eventually became Russia and Ukraine. The Formal Anarchy of Poetry The conversation turns to his network of poets, writers, translators, and editors. He mentions that poetry functions as an institution and network, with numerous poets and institutions like poetry festivals and magazines. Poets often seek out other poets and have poet friends to discuss poetry. Philip mentions his favorite poets including his wife, Katya Kapovich. Philip explains that Russia shaped his poetry towards a mix of traditional forms. He believes that poetry exists in a state of formal anarchy, where a text needs to be self-justifying to merit the reader's attention. His style has evolved, incorporating formal traditional verse, experimental and obscure avant-garde verse, and standard lyric free verse. Philip's themes include personal experience, philosophical distillation, and situational poetry. He believes that poetry allows us to express our humanity and resist becoming robots or AI. He admires the way photography has liberated art by allowing painters to paint their mental lives, and poetry can do the same. However, he also acknowledges that AI has its limitations and questions the future of the arts, particularly in the context of AI. Philip shares a poem from his collection, Letters from Oldenderry, titled "Eagles."  From a Background in Mathematics to a Future in Marketing Philip's interest in mathematics began in the Soviet Union, where strong math schools were present. He was a mathematical prodigy but was too infected with poetry literature to pursue it back then He later became interested in analytical philosophy at Harvard, taking basic math courses like set theory and Introduction to topology. He later took CS 50 and CS 51 in computer science courses. Philip's transition from a PhD in textual studies to running a marketing firm was unexpected, as he had assumed he would become a professor. However, during the 2008-2009 crisis, there were no jobs in the humanities, and he had to find a source of income. He found work at a high-tech company, smtp.com, which is still there today. Reaching Beyond the Daily Grind Philip talks about his degree of freedom as a poet and his outside interests. He explains that not being an academic allows him to think about what matters to him and process it intuitively without being obligated to external criterion or peer review. He also mentions his interest in quantum computing, which he began studying from the business side. He works as a director of business development for Aspen quantum consulting, which does technical due diligence for quantum computing and quantum technology companies. Influential Harvard Courses and Professors Philip mentions Michael Witzel, who was his Sanskrit teacher, Diana Eck, who was his Hindu studies professor, Ed Keenan, and James Hankins, who taught him Western civilization. These professors have been supportive and encouraging of his interest in these subjects and helped him develop his understanding of various topics and perspectives. He still lives within a two-mile radius of Harvard Square, making it easy to access his work and stay connected to his passions. Timestamps:  05:11: Transition to Marketing and Poetry  08:46: Role of Poetry and Language Learning 18:58: Influence of Western Perspective on Russian History  23:33: Network of Poets and Writers  33:15: Challenges and Opportunities in Academia and Marketing  39:09: Return to Mathematics and Quantum Computing  40:59: Influential Professors and Courses at Harvard  Links Company: searchbenefit.com  Book: Letters from Aldenderry LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolayev/   Featured Non-profit: The featured non-profit of this episode is Women's Money Matters recommended by Lauren Messmore who reports:   “Hi, I'm Lauren Messmore, class of 1992. The featured nonprofit of this episode is Women's Money Matters. I'm privileged to have served as a volunteer coach empowering low income women to improve their financial health and create a more secure future for themselves and their loved ones. 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featured Wiki of the Day
Thekla (daughter of Theophilos)

featured Wiki of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2024 14:31


fWotD Episode 2635: Thekla (daughter of Theophilos) Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Monday, 22 July 2024 is Thekla (daughter of Theophilos).Thekla (Greek: Θέκλα; early 820s or 830s – after 870), Latinized as Thecla, was a princess of the Amorian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire. The daughter and eldest child of Byzantine emperor Theophilos and empress Theodora, she was proclaimed augusta in the late 830s. After Theophilos's death in 842 and her mother becoming regent for Thekla's younger brother Michael III, Thekla was associated with the regime as co-empress alongside Theodora and Michael.Thekla was deposed by Michael III, possibly alongside her mother, in 856 and consigned to a convent in Constantinople. Some time later, she allegedly returned to imperial affairs and became the mistress of Michael III's friend and co-emperor Basil I. After Basil murdered Michael in 867 and took power as the sole emperor, Thekla was neglected as his mistress and she took another lover, John Neatokometes. Once Basil found out about the affair, Thekla fell out of favor, was beaten and had her property confiscated.Thekla was born on an uncertain date, as calculating her date of birth depends on the year her parents married, estimated to be either c. 820/821, or 830. Thus she was born in either the early 820s or the early 830s. The historian Warren Treadgold gives her a birth date of c. 831, and the historian Juan Signes Codoñer of spring 822. She is presented by contemporary sources as the eldest child of Byzantine emperor Theophilos and empress Theodora; but, some historians, such as John Bagnell Bury and Ernest Walter Brooks, have argued that her sister Maria was the eldest on the basis that she is the only one of the daughters to have been engaged, and generally the eldest married first. She was named after Theophilos's mother, Thekla. Thekla had six siblings: the four sisters Anna, Anastasia, Pulcheria, and Maria, whom Theophilos took great pride in, and the two brothers Constantine and Michael. Constantine, who shortly after birth had been proclaimed co-emperor by their father, drowned in a palace cistern as an infant.In the 830s, the eldest sisters Thekla, Anna, and Anastasia were all proclaimed augustae, an honorific title sometimes granted to women of the imperial family. This event was commemorated through the issue of an unusual set of coins that depicted Theophilos, Theodora, and Thekla on one side and Anna and Anastasia on the other. Although Theophilos was a staunch iconoclast, and thus opposed the veneration of icons, Thekla was taught to venerate them in secret by her mother and Theophilos's step-mother Euphrosyne. Theophilos built a palace for Thekla and her sisters at ta Karianou. Shortly before his death, Theophilos worked to betroth Thekla to Louis II, the heir to the Carolingian Empire, to unite the two empires against the threat they faced from continued Arab invasions. Such a match would also have been advantageous for Louis II's father Lothair I, who was engaged in a civil war against his brothers. Because of Lothair's defeat at the Battle of Fontenoy in 841 and Theophilos's death in 842, the marriage never happened.After Theophilos's death on 20 January 842, Empress Theodora became regent for Thekla's young brother, the three-year-old Michael III. In practical terms, Theodora ruled in her own right and is often recognized as an empress regnant by modern scholars, although the eunuch Theoktistos held much power. Coins issued in the first year of Theodora's reign depict Theodora alone on the obverse and Michael III together with Thekla on the reverse. The only one of the three given a title is Theodora (as Theodora despoina, "the Lady Theodora"). Thekla was associated with imperial power as co-empress alongside Theodora and Michael; this reality is indicated by her depiction in coins, where she is shown as larger than Michael. An imperial seal, also from Theodora's early reign, titles not only Michael but also Theodora and Thekla as "Emperors of the Romans". This may suggest that Theodora viewed her daughter, just as she did her son, as a potential future heir. The numismatist Philip Grierson comments that dated documents from the time of the coins' minting prove that she was "formally associated with Theodora and Michael in the government of the Empire." However, the historian George Ostrogorsky states that Thekla does not appear to have been interested in government affairs. Thekla fell heavily ill in 843, and is said to have been cured later by visiting the Theotokos monastery in Constantinople; for curing Thekla, Theodora issued a chrysobull to the monastery.On 15 March 856, Theodora's reign officially ended with Michael III being proclaimed sole emperor. In 857 or 858 Theodora was expelled from the imperial palace and confined to a convent in Gastria, in Constantinople; the monastery had been converted from a house by her maternal grandmother, Theoktiste, likely during the reign of Theophilos. Thekla and the other sisters were either expelled and placed in the same convent at the same time, or had already been there for some time. Whether they were ordained as nuns is uncertain: they may have actually been ordained, or it may only have been intended. In one version of the narrative, they were confined to the palace at ta Karianou in November 858, possibly in a semi-monastical setting. Another version claims they were immediately placed in the Monastery of Gastria. The most common narrative states that Theodora was confined to the monastery with Pulcheria, while Thekla, and her other sisters Anna and Anastasia, were first kept at the palace at ta Karianou, but shortly thereafter moved to the Monastery of Gastria and shorn as nuns. Theodora may have been released from the convent around 863. According to the tradition of Symeon Logothete, a 10th-century Byzantine historian, Thekla was also released and used by Michael III to attempt to make a political deal. He states that in around 865, Michael had married his long-time lover Eudokia Ingerina to his friend and co-emperor Basil I, in order to mask the continued relationship of Michael and Eudokia. Some historians, such as Cyril Mango, believe that Michael did so after impregnating Eudokia, to ensure that the child would be born legitimate. However, Symeon's neutrality is disputed, and other contemporary sources do not speak of this conspiracy, leading several prominent Byzantists, such as Ostrogorsky and Nicholas Adontz to dismiss this narrative.According to Symeon, Michael also offered Thekla to Basil as a mistress, perhaps to keep his attention away from Eudokia, a plan which Thekla had allegedly consented to. Thus Thekla, who Treadgold states was 35 at the time, became Basil's mistress in early 866, according to Symeon's narrative. The historian William Greenwalt speculates on the reasons that drove Thekla to agree to this relationship: resentment for having been unmarried for so long, Basil's imposing physical stature, or political gain. After Basil murdered Michael III in 867 and seized power for himself, Symeon further writes that Thekla then became neglected and took another lover, John Neatokometes, sometime after 870. When Basil found out about the affair, he had John beaten and consigned to a monastery. Thekla was also beaten and her considerable riches were confiscated. Mango, who supports the theory of the alleged affairs, commented that Basil would already have had good reason to dislike Neatokometes, as the man had attempted to warn Michael of his impending murder, but believes the best explanation for Basil's response is that "Thekla had previously occupied some place in his life", as a mistress. The De Ceremoniis, a 10th-century Byzantine book on courtly protocol and history, states that she was buried in the Monastery of Gastria, where she had been confined earlier, in a sarcophagus with her mother and her sisters Anastasia and Pulcheria.Codoñer, Juan Signes (2016) [2014]. The Emperor Theophilos and the East, 829–842: Court and Frontier in Byzantium during the Last Phase of Iconoclasm. Oxford: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7546-6489-5.Garland, Lynda (1999). Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527–1204. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-14688-7.Greenwalt, William S. (2002). "Thecla". In Commire, Anne (ed.). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol. 15: Sul–Vica. Waterford: Yorkin Publications. ISBN 0-7876-4074-3.Grierson, Philip (1973). Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, 3: Leo III to Nicephorus III, 717–1081. Washington, D. C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. ISBN 978-0-88402-045-5.Herrin, Judith (2002) [2001]. Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium. London: Phoenix Press. ISBN 1-84212-529-X.Herrin, Judith (2013). Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium. Oxford: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-15321-6.Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (ODB). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.Lilie, Ralph-Johannes; Ludwig, Claudia; Pratsch, Thomas; Zielke, Beate (1998–2013). Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (in German). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.Mango, Cyril (1973). "Eudocia Ingerina, the Normans, and the Macedonian Dynasty". Zbornika Radova Vizantoloskog Instituta. 14–15. ISSN 0584-9888.Ostrogorsky, George (1956). History of the Byzantine State. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-813-51198-6.Ringrose, Kathryn M. (2008). "Women and Power at the Byzantine Court". In Walthall, Anne (ed.). Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520254435.Treadgold, Warren (1975). "The Problem of the Marriage of the Emperor Theophilus". Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. 16: 325–341. ISSN 2159-3159.Treadgold, Warren (1997). A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-2630-6.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:30 UTC on Monday, 22 July 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Thekla (daughter of Theophilos) on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Ayanda.

Composers Datebook
Michael Praetorius

Composers Datebook

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2024 2:00


SynopsisToday's date in 1621 marks the passing of a famous German composer of the Renaissance period, born Michael Schultze, or Schultheiss, but who Latinized his name to Praetorius, and under that name became one of the most popular composers of his time.Praetorius died 64 years before the birth of J. S. Bach, the great German composer of the Baroque age. Praetorius was the son of a Lutheran minister, and like Bach, wrote a good deal of Lutheran church music, and his 1609 setting of the German hymn tune “Es Ist ein Ros Entsprungen” (“Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming”) is still sung by choirs today.But Praetorius' most enduring contribution to music was secular, not sacred. In 1612, he collected and harmonized more than 300 instrumental Renaissance dance tunes and published them in a compendium he titled Terpsichore, after the name of the Greek muse of the dance. Praetorius included a list of instruments that could be used in performing these dances but does not specify which ones should play each dance. Not to worry, since Praetorius also published a work titled Syntagma Musicum, or The Syntax of Music, a detailed history and description of all known musical instruments from biblical times to the present — so take your pick!Music Played in Today's ProgramMichael Praetorius (1571-1621): Dances from Terpsichore (New London Consort; Philip Picket, cond.) Decca/L'oiseau-lyre 4759101

Iowa City Church Podcast
2. The Kingdom Mission

Iowa City Church Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2024 35:42


In the late 1600s and early 1700s a half-literate Italian craftsman named Antonio Stradivari designed and made a series of beautiful musical instruments. Today, those violins, named after the Latinized form of his name, Stradivarius, are considered priceless. In 2010, a Stradivarius was purchased for $3.6 million. It is believed there are only around five hundred of them still in existence, some of which have been submitted to the most intense scientific examination in an attempt to reproduce their extraordinary sound quality. But no one has been able to replicate Stradivari's craftsmanship. Today we do know that Stradivari used spruce for the top, willow for the internal blocks and linings, and maple for the back, ribs, and neck. He also treated the wood with several types of minerals, including potassium borate, sodium and potassium silicate, as well as a handmade varnish that appears to have been composed of gum arabic, honey, and egg white. But the genius craftsman never once recorded his technique for posterity. Instead, he passed on his knowledge to a number of his apprentices through what one scholar called "elbow learning." The apprentices of the great Stradivari didn't learn their craft from books or manuals but by sitting at his elbow and feeling the wood as he felt it to assess its length, its balance, and its timbre right there in their fingertips. All the learning happened at his elbow, and all the knowledge was contained in his fingers. As Jesus begins his ministry of announcing the good news about the Kingdom of God, the very first thing that he does is find some apprentices, you would know them as disciples. Here is how he invites one third of his disciples into their apprenticeship. "Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men." ~ Mark 1:17 We learn a lot from Jesus' strategy for growing the Kingdom; it's more then just announcing good news. The Kingdom strategy for expansion is about finding apprentices/disciples and inviting them to engage in some "elbow learning". Who showed you how to be a Christian? Was it a parent or family member? A friend? Or was it a book you read, a class you took or a video you watched? What is clearly missing when it comes to living as a follower of Jesus is good, old fashioned, Stradivarian, "elbow learning". To discover more about Jesus' strategy for making "elbow learning" disciples, check out the lastest sermon from, Come, Follow, Me.

New Books Network
Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2023 51:46


Peter Adamson's book Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2023) provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sīnā, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devotes chapters to the different areas of Ibn Sīnā's thought. Among the topics covered are his innovations in logic, his theory of the human soul and its powers, the relation between his medical writings and his philosophy, and his metaphysics of existence. Particular attention is given to two famous arguments: his flying man thought experiment and the so-called “demonstration of the truthful,” a proof for the existence of God as the Necessary Existent. A distinctive feature of the book is its attention to the relationship between Ibn Sīnā and Islamic rational theology (kalām): in which we see how Ibn Sīnā responded to this tradition in many areas of his thought. A final chapter looks at Ibn Sīnā's legacy in both the Islamic world and in Latin Christendom. Here Adamson focuses on the critical responses to Ibn Sīnā in subsequent generations by such figures as al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. Peter Adamson is professor of Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He received his BA from Williams College and PhD from the University of Notre Dame. From 2000 to 2012 he was a member of the Philosophy Department at King's College London, and he maintains a connection to King's. But his primary position is now as Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. The author of numerous monographs and articles on ancient and medieval philosophy, especially Neoplatonism and philosophy in the Islamic world, he also hosts the History of Philosophy podcast, which appears as a series of books with Oxford University Press. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in History
Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2023 51:46


Peter Adamson's book Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2023) provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sīnā, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devotes chapters to the different areas of Ibn Sīnā's thought. Among the topics covered are his innovations in logic, his theory of the human soul and its powers, the relation between his medical writings and his philosophy, and his metaphysics of existence. Particular attention is given to two famous arguments: his flying man thought experiment and the so-called “demonstration of the truthful,” a proof for the existence of God as the Necessary Existent. A distinctive feature of the book is its attention to the relationship between Ibn Sīnā and Islamic rational theology (kalām): in which we see how Ibn Sīnā responded to this tradition in many areas of his thought. A final chapter looks at Ibn Sīnā's legacy in both the Islamic world and in Latin Christendom. Here Adamson focuses on the critical responses to Ibn Sīnā in subsequent generations by such figures as al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. Peter Adamson is professor of Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He received his BA from Williams College and PhD from the University of Notre Dame. From 2000 to 2012 he was a member of the Philosophy Department at King's College London, and he maintains a connection to King's. But his primary position is now as Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. The author of numerous monographs and articles on ancient and medieval philosophy, especially Neoplatonism and philosophy in the Islamic world, he also hosts the History of Philosophy podcast, which appears as a series of books with Oxford University Press. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

New Books in Islamic Studies
Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books in Islamic Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2023 51:46


Peter Adamson's book Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2023) provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sīnā, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devotes chapters to the different areas of Ibn Sīnā's thought. Among the topics covered are his innovations in logic, his theory of the human soul and its powers, the relation between his medical writings and his philosophy, and his metaphysics of existence. Particular attention is given to two famous arguments: his flying man thought experiment and the so-called “demonstration of the truthful,” a proof for the existence of God as the Necessary Existent. A distinctive feature of the book is its attention to the relationship between Ibn Sīnā and Islamic rational theology (kalām): in which we see how Ibn Sīnā responded to this tradition in many areas of his thought. A final chapter looks at Ibn Sīnā's legacy in both the Islamic world and in Latin Christendom. Here Adamson focuses on the critical responses to Ibn Sīnā in subsequent generations by such figures as al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. Peter Adamson is professor of Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He received his BA from Williams College and PhD from the University of Notre Dame. From 2000 to 2012 he was a member of the Philosophy Department at King's College London, and he maintains a connection to King's. But his primary position is now as Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. The author of numerous monographs and articles on ancient and medieval philosophy, especially Neoplatonism and philosophy in the Islamic world, he also hosts the History of Philosophy podcast, which appears as a series of books with Oxford University Press. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books in Middle Eastern Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2023 51:46


Peter Adamson's book Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2023) provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sīnā, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devotes chapters to the different areas of Ibn Sīnā's thought. Among the topics covered are his innovations in logic, his theory of the human soul and its powers, the relation between his medical writings and his philosophy, and his metaphysics of existence. Particular attention is given to two famous arguments: his flying man thought experiment and the so-called “demonstration of the truthful,” a proof for the existence of God as the Necessary Existent. A distinctive feature of the book is its attention to the relationship between Ibn Sīnā and Islamic rational theology (kalām): in which we see how Ibn Sīnā responded to this tradition in many areas of his thought. A final chapter looks at Ibn Sīnā's legacy in both the Islamic world and in Latin Christendom. Here Adamson focuses on the critical responses to Ibn Sīnā in subsequent generations by such figures as al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. Peter Adamson is professor of Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He received his BA from Williams College and PhD from the University of Notre Dame. From 2000 to 2012 he was a member of the Philosophy Department at King's College London, and he maintains a connection to King's. But his primary position is now as Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. The author of numerous monographs and articles on ancient and medieval philosophy, especially Neoplatonism and philosophy in the Islamic world, he also hosts the History of Philosophy podcast, which appears as a series of books with Oxford University Press. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

New Books in Intellectual History
Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books in Intellectual History

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2023 51:46


Peter Adamson's book Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2023) provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sīnā, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devotes chapters to the different areas of Ibn Sīnā's thought. Among the topics covered are his innovations in logic, his theory of the human soul and its powers, the relation between his medical writings and his philosophy, and his metaphysics of existence. Particular attention is given to two famous arguments: his flying man thought experiment and the so-called “demonstration of the truthful,” a proof for the existence of God as the Necessary Existent. A distinctive feature of the book is its attention to the relationship between Ibn Sīnā and Islamic rational theology (kalām): in which we see how Ibn Sīnā responded to this tradition in many areas of his thought. A final chapter looks at Ibn Sīnā's legacy in both the Islamic world and in Latin Christendom. Here Adamson focuses on the critical responses to Ibn Sīnā in subsequent generations by such figures as al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. Peter Adamson is professor of Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He received his BA from Williams College and PhD from the University of Notre Dame. From 2000 to 2012 he was a member of the Philosophy Department at King's College London, and he maintains a connection to King's. But his primary position is now as Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. The author of numerous monographs and articles on ancient and medieval philosophy, especially Neoplatonism and philosophy in the Islamic world, he also hosts the History of Philosophy podcast, which appears as a series of books with Oxford University Press. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

New Books in Medieval History
Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

New Books in Medieval History

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2023 51:46


Peter Adamson's book Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2023) provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sīnā, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devotes chapters to the different areas of Ibn Sīnā's thought. Among the topics covered are his innovations in logic, his theory of the human soul and its powers, the relation between his medical writings and his philosophy, and his metaphysics of existence. Particular attention is given to two famous arguments: his flying man thought experiment and the so-called “demonstration of the truthful,” a proof for the existence of God as the Necessary Existent. A distinctive feature of the book is its attention to the relationship between Ibn Sīnā and Islamic rational theology (kalām): in which we see how Ibn Sīnā responded to this tradition in many areas of his thought. A final chapter looks at Ibn Sīnā's legacy in both the Islamic world and in Latin Christendom. Here Adamson focuses on the critical responses to Ibn Sīnā in subsequent generations by such figures as al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. Peter Adamson is professor of Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He received his BA from Williams College and PhD from the University of Notre Dame. From 2000 to 2012 he was a member of the Philosophy Department at King's College London, and he maintains a connection to King's. But his primary position is now as Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. The author of numerous monographs and articles on ancient and medieval philosophy, especially Neoplatonism and philosophy in the Islamic world, he also hosts the History of Philosophy podcast, which appears as a series of books with Oxford University Press. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Peter Adamson, "Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2023 51:46


Peter Adamson's book Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): a Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2023) provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sīnā, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devotes chapters to the different areas of Ibn Sīnā's thought. Among the topics covered are his innovations in logic, his theory of the human soul and its powers, the relation between his medical writings and his philosophy, and his metaphysics of existence. Particular attention is given to two famous arguments: his flying man thought experiment and the so-called “demonstration of the truthful,” a proof for the existence of God as the Necessary Existent. A distinctive feature of the book is its attention to the relationship between Ibn Sīnā and Islamic rational theology (kalām): in which we see how Ibn Sīnā responded to this tradition in many areas of his thought. A final chapter looks at Ibn Sīnā's legacy in both the Islamic world and in Latin Christendom. Here Adamson focuses on the critical responses to Ibn Sīnā in subsequent generations by such figures as al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. Peter Adamson is professor of Philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He received his BA from Williams College and PhD from the University of Notre Dame. From 2000 to 2012 he was a member of the Philosophy Department at King's College London, and he maintains a connection to King's. But his primary position is now as Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. The author of numerous monographs and articles on ancient and medieval philosophy, especially Neoplatonism and philosophy in the Islamic world, he also hosts the History of Philosophy podcast, which appears as a series of books with Oxford University Press. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel.

Today in the Word Devotional

Followers of Jesus were not always called Christians. The term Christian first appeared in Antioch (Acts 11:26). It is a Latinized form of the word Christ that indicates allegiance and suggests that it arose among the Gentiles. It may originally have been an insult (1 Peter 4:16). Before Jesus’ followers were called Christians, they were called “the Way” (Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 24:22). Why were followers of Christ called “the Way”? In Ephesians 4:20, Paul explains that Christianity is more than a set of doctrines. It is also a “way of life” that we must learn. Following Jesus begins with a change of thinking (vv. 17–19). Instead of following the pointless way of thinking of our former life, we are to “put off” the old self and “put on the new self” (vv. 22–24). What Paul describes requires more than adopting a new set of morals. The Christian life demands that we become new people. As verse 23 puts it, the Christian way is a path of renewal in which we are continuously being remade in the image of Christ. Our impulse to sin does not suddenly disappear when we trust in Christ. Nor do we automatically get along with everyone because we belong to Christ. Christians can still behave sinfully and selfishly. Consequently, verses 25–32 call those who follow the way to act out of the new self as they interact with their neighbors. Some of the directives Paul gives may surprise us: stop lying to one another, stop stealing, and get rid of bitterness, rage, anger, brawling, slander, and every form of malice. Christianity is not for the perfect but for those who are being perfected. The power to change comes from God through Christ. Our part is to cooperate with the work that God has begun. >> An old song says, “God’s still workin’ on me.” Where is God working in your life? Today, think about what you need to put off or away and what you need to put on.

Catholic Saints & Feasts
June 21: Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious 

Catholic Saints & Feasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2023 6:32


June 21: Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious 1568–1591 Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of Catholic youth and plague victims Though he had many possessions, he did not go away sad The Jesuit Order, from its very founding, had a sharp sense of its educational superiority, its fidelity to the Holy Father, and its mission to educate and spiritually guide the elites among the courts and aristocracies of Europe. The Order did not, however, develop a strong community identity. There were, and are, common houses. But Jesuit communities built on common prayer, meals, and apostolates were rare. Much more common was the Jesuit alone, trekking under the canopy of a Canadian forest, riding the waves like a cork in a boat off the coast of India, or hiking the narrow mountain pathways in the mists of the high Andes. Where there was one Jesuit, there were all Jesuits. Each man embodied his entire Order. It was a community of many ones. Jesuits were united by their vows, their long education, and their common mission.  Actually living, praying, eating, relaxing, and working together, so crucial to the common life of other Orders, did not play an equivalent role among the Jesuits. Jesuit superiors were aware of the dangers that isolation might pose to unity. So they encouraged, and even mandated, a means to sew into one fabric the patches of a thousand lives being lived across the globe. Letters! Jesuits were required to write letters to their superiors, giving regular accounts of their work. These letters had to be detailed, instructive, and inspiring. After they were reviewed, the most edifying were published and distributed to Jesuit houses. Through these letters, the Order was made one. Every Jesuit knew what at least some of his brothers were doing for God and the Church. These collections of letters, known as the Jesuit Relations, were eventually distributed beyond the confines of the Order. By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Relations were often exciting best sellers recounting the apostolic exploits of isolated Jesuits walking along the rim of Christendom. It was just such an inspiring letter, or relation, from India that inspired today's saint, Aloysius Gonzaga, to become a Jesuit. Saint Aloysius was known to his family as Luigi, Aloysius being the Latinized version of his baptismal name. He was the eldest of seven children born into an aristocratic family from Northern Italy. Kings and Queens and Cardinals and Princes ate at the family table, were family themselves, or were at least friends or acquaintances. Young Luigi knew, and detested, the frivolous existence lived by so many in his aristocratic milieux. He also suffered from various physical infirmities, which produced that vulnerability and perspective which leads so clearly and directly to a deep dependence on God. After receiving his First Communion at about the age of twelve, he came to personally know the great future saint Cardinal Charles Borromeo, who would later be his confessor and spiritual director. Borromeo was a Jesuit. His example, together with Aloysius' reading about the works of Jesuit missionaries, convinced him to enter the Jesuit Novitiate, against his family's wishes. So Aloysius went to Rome to begin his studies. And there he grew to embrace those of lesser education and refinement than himself. He volunteered to work bringing victims of a plague to a Jesuit hospital, despite his personal revulsion at the patients' decrepit physical conditions. After his own physical limitations restricted his participation in this corporal work of mercy, he still persevered and insisted on returning to the hospital over his superiors' objections. While working in the hospital, Aloysius contracted the plague from a patient he personally cared for, was incapacitated shortly thereafter, and, a few months later, died on June 21, 1591. He was twenty-three. His reputation for purity, prayerfulness, and suffering led many to consider him a saint soon after his death. Aloysius was beatified just fourteen years later, in 1605, and canonized in 1726. He is buried in the Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola in Rome. His contribution to the Jesuit canon was not a pagan tribe converted, a new ocean crossed, or an unknown language catalogued. His letter was his life, and it was to die young and to die holy. Saint Aloysius, you laid all your treasures, including your youth, on an altar to God. May your example of generosity, and your service to the sick and dying, inspire all Catholic youth to give God the gold of their early years, not just the silver of middle age or the bronze of their retirement.

Controversies in Church History
Shorts: Benedict XIV on Latinization

Controversies in Church History

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2023 5:33


Hey everyone! This is a new feature I will be using going forward. I provide early access to certain episodes to my supporters on Patreon, in particular the episodes in my longer ongoing series. After a month, I drop the episode for everyone. So, to give non-subscribers a sneak preview, I am going to share clips of the full episodes before they drop, to give you a sense of what's going on. The current series is on the topic of Latinization, how Rome "latinized" or otherwise made Eastern Churches in communion with her adopt Latin liturgical and disciplinary customs. This clip is from Episode III of that series, a primer for the Early Modern Period. In it, I discuss Pope Benedict XIV, a scholar and pontiff of the 18th century who wrote an encyclical on the Eastern Rites in communion with Rome called Allatae Sunt (1755). The clip focuses on his contention that, barring any question of orthodoxy (which popes have a natural right to investigate), Eastern Christians in communion with the Holy See ought to keep and celebrate their own rites and not be "Latinized" by missionaries. You can hear the full discussion of this episode later in the month, or you can go to Controversies in Church History's patreon account to get access now. Thanks to all of my listeners as always. Pax Christi! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/churchcontroversies/message

The Spirit and The Word With Shawn Hiltibidal
May 16th, 2023: Is Jesus God? Part 2 of 5

The Spirit and The Word With Shawn Hiltibidal

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2023 30:00


This week I am answering the question..Is Jesus God?  The simple answer is YES! Jesus IS God!  There are many who don't believe this foundational Christian truth even in some "so called" Christian circles.  We established in the last episode that Jesus is the living WORD of God who is one with God.  I also taught that God's name is technically not Jehovah. That term is a Latinized from of Yahweh.  The Hebrew language does not have a V sound and it also does not have vowels.  His name is actually written as YHWH that we pronounce Yahweh. Some say that it should be pronounced YaHuAH.  In this series I'm not going to debate what the correct pronunciation of his name really is.   My whole intention in this series is to show that the Holy Bible absolutely proves that Jesus is God in flesh.  I don't believe someone can say they are a Christian and not believe this truth.  By the time we get to the end of this series, you will have no question in your mind that Jesus is The Almighty God!

Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution
Discussing energy flow in science/the human body and etymologizing as we go!

Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2023 15:36


Metabolism  1878 in the physiology sense of "the sum of the chemical changes within the body by which the protoplasm is renewed, changed, or prepared for excretion,"  from Greek metabole "a change," from metaballein "to change," from meta "change" + ballein "to throw". Chemical  from chemic "of alchemy" (a worn-down derivative of Medieval Latin alchimicus) + -al (of or pertaining to). Catabolic   1876, katabolism, "destructive metabolism,"  from Greek from kata "down" + ballein "to throw". Anabolic "pertaining to the process of building up" (especially in metabolism), 1876, with -ic + Greek from ana "up, upward"  + ballein "to throw." Reactant  1640s, "to exert, as a thing acted upon, an opposite action upon the agent," from re- "back" + “act” from Latin actus, past participle of agere "to set in motion, drive, drive forward," hence "to do, perform," Product early 15c., "mathematical quantity obtained by multiplication," from Medieval Latin productum, in classical Latin "something produced," noun use of neuter past participle of producere "bring forth" Endothermic Endo- word-forming element meaning "inside, within, internal," from Greek endon "in, within."   from Greek therme "heat, feverish heat." Exothermic  from Greek exō (adv.) "outside," related to ex (prep.) "out of"  from Greek therme "heat, feverish heat."  Enzyme from Modern Greek enzymos "leavened," from en "in/within" + zymē "leaven"  En+zyme = “Leavened within/in” Hence, where we get leavened bread: substance, typically yeast, that is used in dough to make it rise. Catalyst 1650s, "dissolution,"  from Latinized form of Greek katalysis "dissolution, a dissolving"  from kata "down" (or "completely"), + lyein "to loosen" Denaturation from Latin de "down, down from, from, off; concerning" (see de), also used as a prefix in Latin, usually meaning "down, off, away, from among, down from," (defenestration; the action of throwing someone out of a window.)  Fenestra (latin noun); window from Latin natura "course of things; natural character, constitution, quality; the universe," literally "birth," from natus "born," past participle of nasci "to be born," Consumer  from Latin consumere "to use up, eat, waste," from assimilated form of com-, here perhaps an intensive prefix + sumere "to take,"  from sub- "under" + emere "to buy, take" Carnivore   from Latin carnivorus "flesh-eating"  Omnivore  formed from omnivorous on model of carnivore/carnivorous. French omnivore was noted as a neologism in that language in 1801 and might be the direct source of the English word. Aerobic  from Greek aero- "air" + bios "life"  Anaerobic  from Greek an- "without" + aēr "air" + bios "life" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liam-connerly/support

daily304's podcast
The History Project: Trans Allegheny Virginia - Western Virginia's Identity and First Talk of Separation Begin

daily304's podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2023 2:20


While part of the colony of Virginia, modern day West Virginia was called TransAllegheny, a Latinized term meaning “over the Allegheny” mountains. It was allegedly Native reserve territory but that officially changed with the French & Indian War.  In this period, the idea of the region being its own self-governing entity was hatched.  VIDEO LINK:  https://youtu.be/jZyxKW0VihE

Nymphet Alumni
Ep. 44: Sofíacore... Dawn of the Mamacita [TEASER]

Nymphet Alumni

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2023 0:55


Subscribe to hear the full episode! In this episode, we narrow in on the latest trends in Latina fashion and collective nostalgia for Latinized aesthetics of the 2000s. We discuss Sofia Vergara's casual bombshell stylings, Alexa Demie's retro Chicana glam, the telenovela-esque narrative of Shakira's recent comeback, the dark temptation of buchonas, and much more. Pinterest boardLinks: Televonola hair trend - 1, 2Rubí makeup trend - 1, 2, 3Cork wedges trend - 1, 2'Sofía Vergara, Hollywood's Hysterical, Business-Savvy, Unapologetic Sex Symbol' Vanity Fair cover storyShakira's expose-rapBuchona - Emma Coronel, Jenny 69, Sandra BeltranALEXA DEMIE'S “YO VOY” LIP GLOSS VIDEO!!!!

Growing Native
Winter Calligraphy

Growing Native

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2023 4:21


After I produced this episode we were driving in the desert outside Bisbee, AZ marveling the silhouettes of viscid acacia and I realized I had written and jabbered about the winter silhouettes of deciduous trees and shrubs several times in the past… like every winter for 30 years. Oh well, the outlines of naked branches against our huge borderlands sky are glorious. The photos are mine and taken of desert willows very near our home. Oh, my pronunciation of the genus Chilopsis got me thinking; botanical Latin is not the language of the Roman Empire, the Latin that I endured for 2 years in middle school. The Latin that’s used to name organisms has been used in science since the middle ages…I know, science was studied in the middle ages?… Latin was the common language shared, the linqua franca and the organisms' names were long rambling descriptions in Latin. Then a few hundred years later along comes Carl Linnaeus and the binomial system…2 names, a genus and a species for each organism. Thank you, Carl! A couple more things; folks tend to pronounce Latinized names in their own language or vernacular. I swear I can tell if someone attended catholic church by the way they pronounce Latinized scientific names…they sound like they're singing in Italian. And one last thing; there are a bunch of books about all of this. If you're crazy serious then there is William Stearn's Botanical Latin. Learn about reformed academic or traditional English pronunciations among other things and good luck to you! But for considerably more fun I recommend The Naming of the Shrew by John Wright. It’s really a fun read. Now, aren't you glad I mispronounced Chilopsis?

Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution
"Gastro-" and etymologizing all things regarding the stomach

Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2023 23:22


All words covered today are provided below in the show notes! gastrointestinal esophageal reflux disease gastro- also gastero-, before vowels gastr-, scientific word-forming element meaning "stomach," from Greek gastro-, combining form of gaster (genitive gastros) "belly, paunch; womb" intestine (n.) "lower part of the alimentary canal," early 15c., from Old French intestin (14c.) or directly from Latin intestinum "a gut," in plural (intestina), "intestines, bowels," noun use of neuter of adjective intestinus "inward, internal," from intus "within, on the inside" esophagus (n.) from Greek oisophagos "gullet, passage for food," literally "what carries and eats.” reflux (n.) early 15c., "a flowing back" (of the sea, etc.), from Medieval Latin refluxus, from Latin re- "back, again" + fluxus "a flowing," from fluere "to flow" gastrocnemius (n.) = “stomach of the lower leg” Gastritis (n.) gastro- also gastero-, before vowels gastr-, scientific word-forming element meaning "stomach," from Greek gastro-, combining form of gaster (genitive gastros) "belly, paunch; womb.” -itis word-forming element in medicine denoting "diseases characterized by inflammation" (of the specified part), Modern Latin, from Greek -itis. Gastro-enteritis (n.) - Gastroenteritis is inflammation of the lining of the stomach and small and large intestines. Most cases are infectious, although gastroenteritis may occur after ingestion of drugs and chemical toxins (eg, metals, plant substances) enteritis (n.) "acute inflammation of the bowels," 1808, medical Latin, coined c. 1750 by French pathologist François-Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages (1706-1767), from enteron "intestine" + -itis "inflammation." Gastrectomy - surgical removal of a part or the whole of the stomach. -ectomy word-forming element meaning "surgical removal of," from Latinized form of Greek -ektomia "a cutting out of," from ektemnein "to cut out," from ek "out" + temnein "to cut." gastro-enterology (n.) - the study of the normal function and diseases of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon and rectum, pancreas, gallbladder, bile ducts and liver. from enteron "intestine" and -ology referring to the “study of.” gastropod (n.) - The gastropods, commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda 1826, gasteropod (spelling without -e- by 1854), from Modern Latin Gasteropoda, name of a class of mollusks, from Greek gaster (genitive gastros) "stomach" + pous (genitive podos) "foot" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/liam-connerly/support

New Books in African American Studies
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

New Books in African American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 89:01


In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of color/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through his ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians, notwithstanding the country's global prominence as a “Black Republic.” It is class, and not color or race, that primarily produces distinctive Haitian socioeconomic formations. When Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state on January 1, 1804, as the outcome of a slave uprising that defeated white supremacy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti's Founding Founders, as colonial natives, were nonetheless to varying degrees Latinized subjects of the Atlantic. They envisioned freedom differently than the African-born former slaves, who sought to replicate African nonstate societies. Haiti's Founders indeed first defeated native Africans' armies before they defeated the French. Not surprisingly, problematic vestiges of colonialism carried over to the independent nation.  Marius interrogates Haitian Black nationalism without diminishing the colossal achievement of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in destroying slavery in the colony, then the Napoleonic army sent to restore it. Providing clarity on the uses of race, color, and nation in sociopolitical and economic organization in Haiti and other postcolonial bourgeois societies, Marius produces a provocative characterization of the Haitian nation-state that rejects the Black Republic paradigm. Philippe-Richard Marius is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). Marius has conducted extensive fieldwork in Haiti. He is writer, producer, and codirector of the film A City Called Heaven. Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

New Books Network
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 89:01


In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of color/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through his ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians, notwithstanding the country's global prominence as a “Black Republic.” It is class, and not color or race, that primarily produces distinctive Haitian socioeconomic formations. When Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state on January 1, 1804, as the outcome of a slave uprising that defeated white supremacy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti's Founding Founders, as colonial natives, were nonetheless to varying degrees Latinized subjects of the Atlantic. They envisioned freedom differently than the African-born former slaves, who sought to replicate African nonstate societies. Haiti's Founders indeed first defeated native Africans' armies before they defeated the French. Not surprisingly, problematic vestiges of colonialism carried over to the independent nation.  Marius interrogates Haitian Black nationalism without diminishing the colossal achievement of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in destroying slavery in the colony, then the Napoleonic army sent to restore it. Providing clarity on the uses of race, color, and nation in sociopolitical and economic organization in Haiti and other postcolonial bourgeois societies, Marius produces a provocative characterization of the Haitian nation-state that rejects the Black Republic paradigm. Philippe-Richard Marius is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). Marius has conducted extensive fieldwork in Haiti. He is writer, producer, and codirector of the film A City Called Heaven. Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in History
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 89:01


In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of color/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through his ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians, notwithstanding the country's global prominence as a “Black Republic.” It is class, and not color or race, that primarily produces distinctive Haitian socioeconomic formations. When Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state on January 1, 1804, as the outcome of a slave uprising that defeated white supremacy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti's Founding Founders, as colonial natives, were nonetheless to varying degrees Latinized subjects of the Atlantic. They envisioned freedom differently than the African-born former slaves, who sought to replicate African nonstate societies. Haiti's Founders indeed first defeated native Africans' armies before they defeated the French. Not surprisingly, problematic vestiges of colonialism carried over to the independent nation.  Marius interrogates Haitian Black nationalism without diminishing the colossal achievement of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in destroying slavery in the colony, then the Napoleonic army sent to restore it. Providing clarity on the uses of race, color, and nation in sociopolitical and economic organization in Haiti and other postcolonial bourgeois societies, Marius produces a provocative characterization of the Haitian nation-state that rejects the Black Republic paradigm. Philippe-Richard Marius is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). Marius has conducted extensive fieldwork in Haiti. He is writer, producer, and codirector of the film A City Called Heaven. Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

New Books in Latin American Studies
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

New Books in Latin American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 89:01


In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of color/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through his ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians, notwithstanding the country's global prominence as a “Black Republic.” It is class, and not color or race, that primarily produces distinctive Haitian socioeconomic formations. When Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state on January 1, 1804, as the outcome of a slave uprising that defeated white supremacy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti's Founding Founders, as colonial natives, were nonetheless to varying degrees Latinized subjects of the Atlantic. They envisioned freedom differently than the African-born former slaves, who sought to replicate African nonstate societies. Haiti's Founders indeed first defeated native Africans' armies before they defeated the French. Not surprisingly, problematic vestiges of colonialism carried over to the independent nation.  Marius interrogates Haitian Black nationalism without diminishing the colossal achievement of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in destroying slavery in the colony, then the Napoleonic army sent to restore it. Providing clarity on the uses of race, color, and nation in sociopolitical and economic organization in Haiti and other postcolonial bourgeois societies, Marius produces a provocative characterization of the Haitian nation-state that rejects the Black Republic paradigm. Philippe-Richard Marius is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). Marius has conducted extensive fieldwork in Haiti. He is writer, producer, and codirector of the film A City Called Heaven. Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/latin-american-studies

New Books in Caribbean Studies
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

New Books in Caribbean Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 89:01


In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of color/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through his ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians, notwithstanding the country's global prominence as a “Black Republic.” It is class, and not color or race, that primarily produces distinctive Haitian socioeconomic formations. When Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state on January 1, 1804, as the outcome of a slave uprising that defeated white supremacy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti's Founding Founders, as colonial natives, were nonetheless to varying degrees Latinized subjects of the Atlantic. They envisioned freedom differently than the African-born former slaves, who sought to replicate African nonstate societies. Haiti's Founders indeed first defeated native Africans' armies before they defeated the French. Not surprisingly, problematic vestiges of colonialism carried over to the independent nation.  Marius interrogates Haitian Black nationalism without diminishing the colossal achievement of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in destroying slavery in the colony, then the Napoleonic army sent to restore it. Providing clarity on the uses of race, color, and nation in sociopolitical and economic organization in Haiti and other postcolonial bourgeois societies, Marius produces a provocative characterization of the Haitian nation-state that rejects the Black Republic paradigm. Philippe-Richard Marius is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). Marius has conducted extensive fieldwork in Haiti. He is writer, producer, and codirector of the film A City Called Heaven. Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/caribbean-studies

New Books in Critical Theory
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

New Books in Critical Theory

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 89:01


In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of color/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through his ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians, notwithstanding the country's global prominence as a “Black Republic.” It is class, and not color or race, that primarily produces distinctive Haitian socioeconomic formations. When Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state on January 1, 1804, as the outcome of a slave uprising that defeated white supremacy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti's Founding Founders, as colonial natives, were nonetheless to varying degrees Latinized subjects of the Atlantic. They envisioned freedom differently than the African-born former slaves, who sought to replicate African nonstate societies. Haiti's Founders indeed first defeated native Africans' armies before they defeated the French. Not surprisingly, problematic vestiges of colonialism carried over to the independent nation.  Marius interrogates Haitian Black nationalism without diminishing the colossal achievement of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in destroying slavery in the colony, then the Napoleonic army sent to restore it. Providing clarity on the uses of race, color, and nation in sociopolitical and economic organization in Haiti and other postcolonial bourgeois societies, Marius produces a provocative characterization of the Haitian nation-state that rejects the Black Republic paradigm. Philippe-Richard Marius is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). Marius has conducted extensive fieldwork in Haiti. He is writer, producer, and codirector of the film A City Called Heaven. Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

New Books in African Studies
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

New Books in African Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 89:01


In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of color/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through his ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians, notwithstanding the country's global prominence as a “Black Republic.” It is class, and not color or race, that primarily produces distinctive Haitian socioeconomic formations. When Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state on January 1, 1804, as the outcome of a slave uprising that defeated white supremacy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti's Founding Founders, as colonial natives, were nonetheless to varying degrees Latinized subjects of the Atlantic. They envisioned freedom differently than the African-born former slaves, who sought to replicate African nonstate societies. Haiti's Founders indeed first defeated native Africans' armies before they defeated the French. Not surprisingly, problematic vestiges of colonialism carried over to the independent nation.  Marius interrogates Haitian Black nationalism without diminishing the colossal achievement of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in destroying slavery in the colony, then the Napoleonic army sent to restore it. Providing clarity on the uses of race, color, and nation in sociopolitical and economic organization in Haiti and other postcolonial bourgeois societies, Marius produces a provocative characterization of the Haitian nation-state that rejects the Black Republic paradigm. Philippe-Richard Marius is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). Marius has conducted extensive fieldwork in Haiti. He is writer, producer, and codirector of the film A City Called Heaven. Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-studies

New Books in Anthropology
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

New Books in Anthropology

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 89:01


In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of color/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through his ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians, notwithstanding the country's global prominence as a “Black Republic.” It is class, and not color or race, that primarily produces distinctive Haitian socioeconomic formations. When Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state on January 1, 1804, as the outcome of a slave uprising that defeated white supremacy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti's Founding Founders, as colonial natives, were nonetheless to varying degrees Latinized subjects of the Atlantic. They envisioned freedom differently than the African-born former slaves, who sought to replicate African nonstate societies. Haiti's Founders indeed first defeated native Africans' armies before they defeated the French. Not surprisingly, problematic vestiges of colonialism carried over to the independent nation.  Marius interrogates Haitian Black nationalism without diminishing the colossal achievement of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in destroying slavery in the colony, then the Napoleonic army sent to restore it. Providing clarity on the uses of race, color, and nation in sociopolitical and economic organization in Haiti and other postcolonial bourgeois societies, Marius produces a provocative characterization of the Haitian nation-state that rejects the Black Republic paradigm. Philippe-Richard Marius is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). Marius has conducted extensive fieldwork in Haiti. He is writer, producer, and codirector of the film A City Called Heaven. Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

New Books in Sociology
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

New Books in Sociology

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 89:01


In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of color/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through his ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians, notwithstanding the country's global prominence as a “Black Republic.” It is class, and not color or race, that primarily produces distinctive Haitian socioeconomic formations. When Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state on January 1, 1804, as the outcome of a slave uprising that defeated white supremacy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti's Founding Founders, as colonial natives, were nonetheless to varying degrees Latinized subjects of the Atlantic. They envisioned freedom differently than the African-born former slaves, who sought to replicate African nonstate societies. Haiti's Founders indeed first defeated native Africans' armies before they defeated the French. Not surprisingly, problematic vestiges of colonialism carried over to the independent nation.  Marius interrogates Haitian Black nationalism without diminishing the colossal achievement of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in destroying slavery in the colony, then the Napoleonic army sent to restore it. Providing clarity on the uses of race, color, and nation in sociopolitical and economic organization in Haiti and other postcolonial bourgeois societies, Marius produces a provocative characterization of the Haitian nation-state that rejects the Black Republic paradigm. Philippe-Richard Marius is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). Marius has conducted extensive fieldwork in Haiti. He is writer, producer, and codirector of the film A City Called Heaven. Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

New Books in French Studies
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

New Books in French Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 89:01


In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of color/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through his ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians, notwithstanding the country's global prominence as a “Black Republic.” It is class, and not color or race, that primarily produces distinctive Haitian socioeconomic formations. When Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state on January 1, 1804, as the outcome of a slave uprising that defeated white supremacy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti's Founding Founders, as colonial natives, were nonetheless to varying degrees Latinized subjects of the Atlantic. They envisioned freedom differently than the African-born former slaves, who sought to replicate African nonstate societies. Haiti's Founders indeed first defeated native Africans' armies before they defeated the French. Not surprisingly, problematic vestiges of colonialism carried over to the independent nation.  Marius interrogates Haitian Black nationalism without diminishing the colossal achievement of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in destroying slavery in the colony, then the Napoleonic army sent to restore it. Providing clarity on the uses of race, color, and nation in sociopolitical and economic organization in Haiti and other postcolonial bourgeois societies, Marius produces a provocative characterization of the Haitian nation-state that rejects the Black Republic paradigm. Philippe-Richard Marius is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). Marius has conducted extensive fieldwork in Haiti. He is writer, producer, and codirector of the film A City Called Heaven. Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/french-studies

NBN Book of the Day
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)

NBN Book of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 89:01


In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of color/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through his ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians, notwithstanding the country's global prominence as a “Black Republic.” It is class, and not color or race, that primarily produces distinctive Haitian socioeconomic formations. When Marius arrived in Port-au-Prince to begin fieldwork for this monograph, to him and to legions of people worldwide, Haiti was axiomatically the first Black Republic. Descendants of Africans did in fact create the Haitian nation-state on January 1, 1804, as the outcome of a slave uprising that defeated white supremacy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Haiti's Founding Founders, as colonial natives, were nonetheless to varying degrees Latinized subjects of the Atlantic. They envisioned freedom differently than the African-born former slaves, who sought to replicate African nonstate societies. Haiti's Founders indeed first defeated native Africans' armies before they defeated the French. Not surprisingly, problematic vestiges of colonialism carried over to the independent nation.  Marius interrogates Haitian Black nationalism without diminishing the colossal achievement of the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in destroying slavery in the colony, then the Napoleonic army sent to restore it. Providing clarity on the uses of race, color, and nation in sociopolitical and economic organization in Haiti and other postcolonial bourgeois societies, Marius produces a provocative characterization of the Haitian nation-state that rejects the Black Republic paradigm. Philippe-Richard Marius is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). Marius has conducted extensive fieldwork in Haiti. He is writer, producer, and codirector of the film A City Called Heaven. Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

Chillbooks: Audiobooks with Chill Music
On The Creation of The Universe, by Averroes (Ibn Rushd)

Chillbooks: Audiobooks with Chill Music

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2022 27:37


“The Creation of the Universe” by Averroes (Ibn Rushd) is the first chapter of the book “On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy”. Today we bring you the chapter in audiobook format with on-screen text, relaxing music and visuals to help you stay engaged. Translated by Muhammad Jamil al-Rahman. If you would like to see the next chapters, please let us know in the comments section! #philosophy #audiobook #islam

Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution
Hormones and other processes/aspects of the body with the prefix "Endo-"

Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2022 29:03


endocrine (adj.) "secreting internally," endo- + Latinized form of Greek krinein "to separate, distinguish". certain (adj.) c. 1300, "determined, fixed," from Old French certain "reliable, sure, assured" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *certanus, extended form of Latin certus "determined, resolved, fixed, settled," of things whose qualities are invariable, "established," also "placed beyond doubt, sure, true, proved; unerring, to be depended upon" (also source of Old French cert, Italian certo, Spanish cierto), originally a variant past participle of cernere "to distinguish, decide," literally "to sift, separate." This Latin verb comes from the root *krei- "to sieve," thus "discriminate, distinguish.” endocrinology (n.) 1917, from endocrine + -ology. Related: Endocrinologist. endorse (v.) c. 1400, endosse "confirm or approve" endow (v.) late 14c., indowen "provide an income for," from Anglo-French endover, from en- "in" + Old French douer "endow," from Latin dotare "to endow, bestow, portion," from dos (genitive dotis) "marriage portion." endogenous (adj.) "growing or proceeding from within," especially with reference to a class of plants including cereals, palms, plantains, etc., 1822, from endo- "within" + -genous "producing." endorphin (n.) "chemical which occurs naturally in the brain and works like morphine," 1975, from French endorphine. First element from endogène "endogenous, growing within." endometrium (n.) "lining membrane of the uterus," 1882, medical Latin, from endo- + Greek mētra "uterus," related to mētēr "mother" (see mother (n.1)). Related: Endometrial (1870). endoskeleton (n.) 1838, from endo- + skeleton. ENDOSCOPY endo- word-forming element meaning "inside, within, internal," from Greek endon "in, within." -scopy word-forming element meaning "viewing, examining, observing," from Modern Latin -scopium, from Greek -skopion, from skopein "to look at, examine." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/liam-connerly/support

Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution
Discussing a TON of Pathologies as well as Medical terms you should know!

Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2022 23:52


Arthritis - "inflammation of a joint," " from arthritis, fem. of arthrites (adj.) "pertaining to joints" (Greek nosos is a fem. noun), from arthron "a joint" + -itis, “an inflammation of” Conjunctivitis - from assimilated form of com "with, together" + iungere "to join together." Also known as “pink eye” because it can cause the white of the eye to take on a pink or red color. Symptoms of pink eye can vary but typically include redness or swelling of the white of the eye. Diabetes - medical name of a set of affections characterized by abnormal discharge of urine. from medical Latin diabetes, from late Greek diabetes "excessive discharge of urine" (so named by Aretaeus the Cappadocian, physician of Alexandria, 2c.), literally "a passer-through, siphon," from diabainein "to pass through," from dia "through" + bainein "to go, walk, step". Chlamydia - type of genital infection, 1984, from the name of the bacteria that causes it. formed from a Latinized combining form of Greek khlamys (genitive khlamydos) "short mantle, upper garment for men, military cloak." Said to be so called due to its ability to "cloak" the nuclei of infected cells. Clostridium Difficile - Clostridium, the genus name of these gram-positive, spore-forming, anaerobic bacteria comes from Greek klōstēr (spindle) because, under the microscope, the colonies resemble spindles used in cloth weaving and long sticks with a bulge at the end. Staphylococcus aureus:; staphylo: "bunch of grapes" (from greek σταϕυλή, meaning "bunch of grapes") coccos: "berry" (from greek κόκκος, meaning "berry") aureus: "golden" (from latin aureus, meaning "golden") The bacteria Staphylococcus aureus looks like a cluster of small berry-shaped cells (coccos) that are arranged in a formation which resembles a bunch of grapes (staphylo), and appear golden (aureus) in colour when grown on a petri dish. Depression - directly from Medieval Latin depressionem (nominative depressio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin deprimere "to press down, depress." Leukemia - progressive blood disease characterized by abnormal accumulation of leucocytes, a type of white blood cell. Gonorrhea - from Late Latin gonorrhoia, from Greek gonos "seed" + rhoe "flow," from rhein "to flow". Mucus discharge was mistaken for semen. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/liam-connerly/support

Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution
Latin and Greek within Science - Energy Flow Etymology

Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2022 16:33


Metabolism 1878 in the physiology sense of "the sum of the chemical changes within the body by which the protoplasm is renewed, changed, or prepared for excretion," from Greek metabole "a change," from metaballein "to change," from meta "change" + ballein "to throw". Chemical from chemic "of alchemy" (a worn-down derivative of Medieval Latin alchimicus). Catabolic 1876, katabolism, "destructive metabolism," from Greek from kata "down" + ballein "to throw". Anabolic "pertaining to the process of building up" (especially in metabolism), 1876, with -ic + Greek from ana "up, upward" + ballein "to throw." Reactant 1640s, "to exert, as a thing acted upon, an opposite action upon the agent," from re- "back" + “act” from Latin actus, past participle of agere "to set in motion, drive, drive forward," hence "to do, perform," Product early 15c., "mathematical quantity obtained by multiplication," from Medieval Latin productum, in classical Latin "something produced," noun use of neuter past participle of producere "bring forth" Endothermic Endo- word-forming element meaning "inside, within, internal," from Greek endon "in, within." from Greek therme "heat, feverish heat." Exothermic from Greek exō (adv.) "outside," related to ex (prep.) "out of" from Greek therme "heat, feverish heat." Enzyme from Modern Greek enzymos "leavened," from en "in" + zymē "leaven" Hence, where we get leavened bread: substance, typically yeast, that is used in dough to make it rise Catalyst 1650s, "dissolution," from Latinized form of Greek katalysis "dissolution, a dissolving" from kata "down" (or "completely"), + lyein "to loosen" Denaturation from Latin de "down, down from, from, off; concerning", also used as a prefix in Latin, usually meaning "down, off, away, from among, down from," (defenestration; the action of throwing someone out of a window.) Fenestra (latin noun); window from Latin natura "course of things; natural character, constitution, quality; the universe," literally "birth," from natus "born," past participle of nasci "to be born." Matrix from Latin mātrix (genitive mātricis) "pregnant animal," in Late Latin "womb," also "source, origin," from māter (genitive mātris) "mother" Aerobic from Greek aero- "air" + bios "life" Anaerobic from Greek an- "without" + aēr "air" + bios "life" Fermenstration from Late Latin fermentationem (nominative fermentatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin fermentare "to ferment" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/liam-connerly/support

Chillbooks: Audiobooks with Chill Music
The Philosophy and Theology of Averroes (Ibn Rushd)

Chillbooks: Audiobooks with Chill Music

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2022 279:47


The Philosophy and Theology of Averroes (Ibn Rushd), complete audiobook with relaxing music and visuals to help you stay engaged. Translated by Muhammad Jamil al-Rahman. Special thanks to "Ornos" for suggesting this book. If you have any suggestions, please let us know in the comments section!

Everyday Acupuncture Podcast
EAP-086 What is Qi • Michael Max

Everyday Acupuncture Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2022 8:23 Transcription Available


Qi is not pronounceable in English. Its whistled aspiration is not a sound found in our language. And much as we can approximate it with the “chee”, as in the beginning of “cheese”, it will forever be a curious transplant; like an exotic ornamental tree from abroad. Qi. In English we don't have anything close to the idea of an overall enlivening force in nature. A connective force that blows clouds across the sky, surges currents through the ocean, directs the growth, blooming and decline of the myriad forms we recognize as Life. We don't perceive a unified field that directs the beating of your heart and calls the tune on next week's weather forecast. We don't really have a word in our language that connects the dots between your wife's personality, the pungent taste of cinnamon, the character of the oak tree outside your breakfast window and the way thaty snowy grey-white days gentle and calm the spirit. Q-i, c-h-e-e, c-h-i, however you wish to represent it in Latinized characters, it basically translates as “vital” or “essential” energy. Which is terribly unsatisfactory to our Western minds, as we tend to prefer Einsteinian equations of abstract proof that all Life is inextricably connected. Let's take a look through the Chinese dictionary and glimpse a few of the various manifestations of Qi as it is expressed in some common two character combinations. This will give a sense of the expression of vitality as it unfolds within various aspects of life. 力氣 li qi- strength 天氣 tian qi- weather 生氣 sheng qi- angry 氣色 qi se- complexion 志氣 zhi qi- ambition 不經氣 bu jing qi- economic turndown, recession 淘氣 tao qi- mischievousness 運氣 yun qi- fortune, luck 小氣 xiao qi- miserly and mean spirited 氣短 qi duan- disappointment 語氣 yu qi- verbal attitude 氣死 qi si- infuriate 喘氣 chuan qi- asthmatic breathing 氣骨 qi gu- moral character 客氣 ke qi- politeness 勇氣 yong qi- courage 味氣 wei qi- taste, flavor Surprising isn't it, that 氣 shows up in so many places and is wrapped into so many aspects of life? So when your acupuncturist is working to “regulate your 氣” do not be too surprised if your sleep improves, and you find yourself being kinder to people you don't like, even though she is treating your back pain. 氣 is a profoundly connective force Try Eco-Cha Tea! Here is your link. https://eco-cha.com/pages/eap (https://eco-cha.com/pages/eap) Be sure to use the CODE: Teaforme to get 15% off! Mentioned in this episode: ECO-CHA AD FINAL https://everyday-acupuncture.captivate.fm/teaforme (ECO-CHA )

Ursa Short Fiction
Chelsea T. Hicks on the Stories and Wazhazhe Language in 'A Calm & Normal Heart'

Ursa Short Fiction

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2022 63:18


Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton dive into the short stories of the acclaimed new collection A Calm & Normal Heart, with its author, Chelsea T. Hicks.  Hicks is a member of the Osage Nation, and the collection, published in June 2022 by Unnamed Press, also incorporates her ancestral language of Wazhazhe ie (which translates to “Osage talk”). The collection opens with a poem in the orthography, along with the Latinized spelling and English translation. Read the full episode transcript. Support Future Episodes: Become a Member in Apple Podcasts or at ursastory.com/join. About Chelsea T. Hicks Chelsea T. Hicks is a model, author and current Tulsa Artist Fellow. She is a Native Arts & Cultures Foundation 2021 LIFT Awardee and her writing has been published in McSweeney's, Yellow Medicine Review, the LA Review of Books, Indian Country Today, The Believer, The Audacity, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is a past Writing By Writers Fellow, a 2016 Wah-Zha-Zhi Woman Artist featured by the Osage Nation Museum, and a 2020 finalist for the Eliza So Fellowship for Native American women writers.  Her advocacy work has included recruiting with the Virginia Indian Pre-College Outreach Initiative (VIP-COI), Northern and Southern California Osage diaspora groups, and heritage language creative writing and revitalization workshops. She authored poetry for the sound art collection Onomatopoeias For Wrangell-St. Elias, funded by the Double Hoo Grant at the University of Virginia, where she was awarded the Peter & Phyllis Pruden scholarship for excellence in the English major as well as the University Achievement Award (2008-2012). The Ford Foundation awarded her a 2021 honorable mention for promotion of Indigenous-language creative writing. She is planning an Indigenous language creative writing Conference for November 2022 in Tulsa, funded by an Interchange art grant.  Episode Links and Reading List:  A Calm & Normal Heart (2022) Of Wazhazhe Land and Language: The Ongoing Project of Ancestral Work (Lit Hub) Osage writing system and orthography There There, by Tommy Orange (2019) Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino (1978) Night of the Living Rez, by Morgan Talty (2022) America Is Not the Heart, by Elaine Castillo (2019) Men We Reaped: A Memoir, by Jesmyn Ward (2014) Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires (2019) Milk Blood Heat, by Dantiel W. Moniz (2021) Nobody's Magic, by Destiny O. Birdsong (2022) You Don't Know Us Negroes, by Zora Neale Hurston More from Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton:  The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, by Deesha Philyaw The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, by Dawnie Walton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://ursastory.com/join

Catholic Saints & Feasts
June 21: Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious

Catholic Saints & Feasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2022 6:31


June 21: Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious1568–1591Memorial; Liturgical Color: WhitePatron Saint of Catholic youth and plague victimsThough he had many possessions, he did not go away sadThe Jesuit Order, from its very founding, had a sharp sense of its educational superiority, its fidelity to the Holy Father, and its mission to educate and spiritually guide the elites among the courts and aristocracies of Europe. The Order did not, however, develop a strong community identity. There were, and are, common houses. But Jesuit communities built on common prayer, meals, and apostolates were rare. Much more common was the Jesuit alone, trekking under the canopy of a Canadian forest, riding the waves like a cork in a boat off the coast of India, or hiking the narrow mountain pathways in the mists of the high Andes. Where there was one Jesuit, there were all Jesuits. Each man embodied his entire Order. It was a community of many ones. Jesuits were united by their vows, their long education, and their common mission. Actually living, praying, eating, relaxing, and working together, so crucial to the common life of other Orders, did not play an equivalent role among the Jesuits.Jesuit superiors were aware of the dangers that isolation might pose to unity. So they encouraged, and even mandated, a means to sew into one fabric the patches of a thousand lives being lived across the globe. Letters! Jesuits were required to write letters to their superiors, giving regular accounts of their work. These letters had to be detailed, instructive, and inspiring. After they were reviewed, the most edifying were published and distributed to Jesuit houses. Through these letters, the Order was made one. Every Jesuit knew what at least some of his brothers were doing for God and the Church. These collections of letters, known as the Jesuit Relations, were eventually distributed beyond the confines of the Order. By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Relations were often exciting best sellers recounting the apostolic exploits of isolated Jesuits walking along the rim of Christendom.It was just such an inspiring letter, or relation, from India that inspired today's saint, Aloysius Gonzaga, to become a Jesuit. Saint Aloysius was known to his family as Luigi, Aloysius being the Latinized version of his baptismal name. He was the eldest of seven children born into an aristocratic family from Northern Italy. Kings and Queens and Cardinals and Princes ate at the family table, were family themselves, or were at least friends or acquaintances. Young Luigi knew, and detested, the frivolous existence lived by so many in his aristocratic milieux. He also suffered from various physical infirmities, which produced that vulnerability and perspective which leads so clearly and directly to a deep dependence on God.After receiving his First Communion at about the age of twelve, he came to personally know the great future saint Cardinal Charles Borromeo, who would later be his confessor and spiritual director. Borromeo was a Jesuit. His example, together with Aloysius' reading about the works of Jesuit missionaries, convinced him to enter the Jesuit Novitiate, against his family's wishes. So Aloysius went to Rome to begin his studies. And there he grew to embrace those of lesser education and refinement than himself. He volunteered to work bringing victims of a plague to a Jesuit hospital, despite his personal revulsion at the patients' decrepit physical conditions. After his own physical limitations restricted his participation in this corporal work of mercy, he still persevered and insisted on returning to the hospital over his superiors' objections.While working in the hospital, Aloysius contracted the plague from a patient he personally cared for, was incapacitated shortly thereafter, and, a few months later, died on June 21, 1591. He was twenty-three. His reputation for purity, prayerfulness, and suffering led many to consider him a saint soon after his death. Aloysius was beatified just fourteen years later, in 1605, and canonized in 1726. He is buried in the Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola in Rome. His contribution to the Jesuit canon was not a pagan tribe converted, a new ocean crossed, or an unknown language cataloged. His letter was his life, and it was to die young and to die holy.Saint Aloysius, you laid all your treasures, including your youth, on an altar to God. May your example of generosity, and your service to the sick and dying, inspire all Catholic youth to give God the gold of their early years, not just the silver of middle age or the bronze of their retirement.

A Minute with Miles
Stradivarius

A Minute with Miles

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2022 0:59


Stradivarius is the Latinized last name of Antonio Stradivari, often regarded as history's greatest violin maker.

The Daily Gardener
April 12, 2022 Georg Joseph Kamel, William Kent, Gladys Taber, National Licorice Day, The Five Minute Garden by Laetitia Maklouf, and Clare Leighton

The Daily Gardener

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2022 21:02


Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee   Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1661 Birth of Georg Joseph Kamel ("CAH-mel"), Czech pharmacist, naturalist, and Jesuit missionary. Georg was born in Brno (pronounced "burr-no"), the city where Gregor Mendel lived in a monastery and experimented with peas. In 1688, after graduating from a mission school in Vienna, he was sent to the Philippines, which was then a Spanish colony, and he ended up spending the rest of his life helping the people as a doctor and botanizing in his free time. Early on, he once confided in a friend. There is no physician here but four brorthers who know little more than my pair of trousers. Georg also worked as a pharmacist and a botanist at the College in Manila. He set up the first pharmacy in the Philipines, and he ran it according to Austrian standards. Georg Joseph Kamel was a true naturalist. He enjoyed learning everything he could about the natural world. His work as an herbalist led him to explore the medicinal potential of the plants he encountered, and he valued the way locals treated ailments. For instance, he believed that low doses of the Saint Ignatius bean - the source of strychnine - had medicinal value since Filipinos used it to treat cholera. But modern research has proved otherwise, and even trace amounts of strychnine damage the liver and the kidneys. Thanks to his work treating the sick, Georg was well known. He treated the poor for free, and he happily received many plants from grateful locals to plant in his medicinal garden. Between his own collecting efforts and the plants received from locals, Georg completed the first flora of the Philippines. Georg sent a copy of his flora to his peer and friend, John Ray, who, in turn, included the Philippine flora in the appendix of the third volume of his great work-  the Historia Plantarum - the history of plants. Georg also named several plants. He called the ubiquitous ornamental houseplant the kalanchoe ("kal-an-KOH-ee"), which was based on the Philipino name for the plant. Georg also was the first person to describe the tea plant or the Camellia, which is why Carl Linneaus named the Camellia in honor of Georg Joseph Kamel. He used Georg's Latinized last name, Camellus, for the genus name Camellia, which translates to "helper to the priest." Sadly, Georg Joseph Kamel died young at 45 from an intestinal infection.   1748 Death of William Kent (books about this person), English landscape gardener, artist, and designer. Before William's picturesque approach to landscapes, gardens were formal, following Dutch or French design principles that used a geometric and orderly layout. But William started out as a painter and not a landscape architect, and when he worked on landscapes, he approached them as a living canvas. He once wrote, All gardening is landscape painting. For William to make art out of the earth, he needed scenery, and he went to great lengths to accomplish his visions. He moved soil to create rolling hills; he used swaths of land for lush lawns, groves of trees for interest and contrast, and paths with benches for the characters/visitors that he envisioned arriving on the scene. William planned for people to walk or ride through his landscapes in the same way that people might dot the landscape of one of his paintings. William often placed elements in the garden against a green backdrop, a hillside, or a group of evergreens, to accent the piece's beauty. Much of what William Kent attempted to do has become mainstream. As gardeners, we often must contend with unattractive areas in the landscape: fences, sheds, or utility areas. Well, William Kent faced these same concerns for his beautiful landscapes. At Rousham, William employed a haha or wall sunken into a ditch instead of fencing to keep the gardens separate from grazing land. He also improved the exterior of an eyesore - an old mill - by adding gothic elements. He also added a folly to look like a ruin with three arches that William called the eye-catcher. William wanted visitors at Rousham to look off in the distance toward the eye-catcher and feel the expansiveness of the property. It was William Kent who said, Garden as though you will live forever.   1899 Birth of Gladys Taber, American author, columnist, and animal lover. Gladys wrote over fifty books that ran from fiction to cookbooks, children's books to poetry. She once wrote, Nothing decorates a room like books.  There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too! She's best remembered for her series about life at Stillmeadow, her farm in rural Connecticut. She also wrote about her smaller Cape Cod home called Still Cove. Stillmeadow and Still Cove were the most common topics of her columns for Ladies Home Journal (1937 - 1957) and Family Circle (1959 - 1967).  Gladys was a gardener, and she once wrote, A garden is evidence of faith.  It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.   Two other quotes offer a glimpse into Gladys's humble spirit. She wrote, As long as you have a window, life is exciting. and Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.   National Licorice Day The botanical name for licorice (books about this topic) means "sweet root," In Dutch, the word for licorice means "sweet wood." The secret to the flavor (which is 50 times sweeter than sugar) is hidden in the plant's very long roots and rhizomes. In Holland and elsewhere, children who grew up chewing on licorice root would suck out the sweet sugars and spit out the pulp. The licorice plant is a perennial shrub in the legume or pea family - don't confuse it with the annual trailing dusky licorice plant that gets popped in summer containers. In addition to its culinary uses, licorice has been used medicinally. The glycyrrhetinic acid in licorice causes the body to hold salt and water. Armies gave licorice to soldiers and horses when water was in short supply. In ancient times, Hippocrates used licorice to treat cough. Licorice is also used for digestion. It helps regulate the activity in your stomach. in fact, Napoleon used licorice to treat his tummy troubles. So there you go. Happy National Licorice Day — whether you enjoy it as a sweet treat or a natural aid to help you feel better.   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation The Five Minute Garden by Laetitia Maklouf  This book came out in 2020, and the subtitle is How to Garden in Next to No Time. Laetitia is a garden writer, a garden communicator, and a content creator, and she's a very busy mom. Laetitia's active lifestyle was the impetus for her to develop ways to maximize short bursts of time in the garden. Now before you dismiss her book out of hand and say, "Five Minutes? That can't be done," Laetitia's book may surprise you. I think what Laetitia's done here is ingenious because this book is packed with five-minute ideas - tasks to do in the garden for big impact. So readers can pick and choose at random what they have time to do or what they're interested in doing.  Don't forget that we're using discretionary effort when we garden, which means we are making a choice. And while some of us may not be able to get enough time in the garden (as in, we would love to spend every spare minute in the garden), that's just not the case for everyone. I know, I know. But that's just the truth of it. Now, of course, not everything in Laetitia's book will apply to your garden. We all have different gardens but never fear — there are plenty of ideas in Laetitia's book. Laetitia's to-dos may spark even more ideas that pertain just to you, which is the whole idea. If you are at a loss for where to begin in the garden, this book is your mix and match idea generator. The bottom line here is that you can tackle your garden with little bursts of energy every day. And, that's way better than just throwing up your hands and saying, forget about it - because we all know what happens then - then you're not in the garden at all. Next, the garden grows out of control, and a doom spiral of plants and weeds commences, which becomes a problem for you and your garden and your neighbors. So I like this five minutes strategy. It's not overwhelming, and it's very, very simple. The other thing that I enjoy is how Laetitia organized the book. She's used those headings to group tasks together. So you'll see headings like Spruce Up or Chop or Nurture or even Project. Laetitia herself says that she tends to do one activity from each of those heading areas over the course of a week.  But Laetitia reminds us that the important thing here is just to begin - pick one thing at random from the relevant month in the book - and then go out and start on that because at some point, your future self will thank you, and you'll look back, and realize how far you've come in your garden. Come to think about it, that's exactly what I do in the summer with my student gardeners — just on a bit bigger scale. Instead of five minutes, I'm out there for two hours, with between six and eight student gardeners. It's actually not even two hours because we spend about fifteen minutes talking about the state of the garden and the day's tasks. Then we always spend the last fifteen minutes taking pictures of the garden and downloading what we just accomplished. Essentially, what I'm doing is taking Laetitia's book and then enlisting the aid of helpers. This is how I get things done in my garden despite my arthritis. To me, it is all about short bursts of time and helpers.  And, you know, taking it slow and working in short bursts is essential this time of year (in spring). Then when you are finished and come back into the house, you still have the energy to do all the other things that need to get done in your life. And you don't resent your garden - that's the last thing you want to do. Just this week, I was reading posts on Twitter from gardeners I know in England who are out gardening because spring has sprung there, and the flowers and the spring bulbs are blooming. Plants are popping up, and the garden accelerates very quickly. Of course, people are out in force in their gardens, satisfying their pent-up desire. But these Twitter posts are loaded with gardeners who also say, "Oh my gosh, I went out there, and I totally overdid it. Now I can't walk. I can't move."  And so now they have to pay the price for that, and they have to take it easy for the next couple of days. So, this is where Laetitia's approach is not only smart but effective, and it can spare you from potential injury. And, if you're someone who struggles with garden overwhelm and you don't know where to start or what to do, then Laetitia's book just might be the ticket for you. This is a lovely little book with an adorably illustrated cover. It's got all these cute little flowers in a garland, and then there are garden tools, like a shovel and a watering can. It's very, very sweet. So I also think that this book would be a great little gift book. For instance, if you have a garden club, this book would be perfect for giving to a new member; something to keep in mind... This book is 232 pages of garden to-dos month-by-month so that you, too, can enjoy a five-minute garden.  You can get a copy of The Five Minute Garden by Laetitia Maklouf and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $10.  Great deal. Helpful book.   Botanic Spark 1898 Birth of Clare Ellaine Hope Leighton, English American artist and writer. Although Clare was an excellent writer (and both of her parents were writers), she is remembered for her wood engravings of rural life. In 1935, she wrote and illustrated Four Hedges, A Gardener's Chronicle.  Clare's book is chock-full of beautiful images and her experiences creating a garden in the English countryside. Clare's book is full of little nuggets like,   It is better to have a few weeds and untidy edges to our flower beds, and to enjoy our garden, than to allow ourselves to be dominated by it.   She also wrote, It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.   Finally, Clare shared a little story about a friend who had just lost her father in a moving passage about the therapeutic powers of nature. The massacre of dandelions is a peculiarly satisfying occupation, a harmless and comforting outlet for the destructive element in our natures. It should be available as a safety valve for everybody. Last May, when the dandelions were at their height, we were visited by a friend whose father had just died; she was discordant and hurt, and life to her was unrhythmic. With visible release she dashed into the orchard to slash at the dandelions; as she destroyed them her discords were resolved. After two days of weed slaughtering her face was calm. The garden had healed her.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

New Books in Ancient History
Erin M. Cline, "The Analects: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2021)

New Books in Ancient History

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2022 67:45


Probably the most well-known Chinese philosopher around the world is Kongzi, typically called by his Latinized name, “Confucius.” And yet he did not write a single book. Rather, his students collected Kongzi's life and teachings into the Analects, a text which has become immensely influential from ancient Confucian traditions up to the current day.  In The Analects: A Guide (Oxford University Press, 2021), Erin M. Cline argues that we should understand the Analects not only as a guide for living, or a philosophical set of sayings on ethics, but as a sacred text. She argues that this approach helps us reflect more critically about the categories like the sacred, and to appreciate the role of Kongzi as a personal exemplar in the text. Engaging closely with the text of the Analects as well as traditional commentaries and contemporary scholarship, Cline introduces the reader to the history of this text as well its major themes, such as ritual, filial piety, and the relationship between the ordinary and the sacred. By situating the Analects alongside works such as the Nichomachean Ethics and the Bible, her work investigates the text from both philosophical and religious perspectives, while reflecting on these categories themselves. Malcolm Keating is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS College. His research focuses on Sanskrit philosophy of language and epistemology. He is the author of Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) and host of the podcast Sutras (and stuff). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Chinese Studies
Erin M. Cline, "The Analects: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2021)

New Books in Chinese Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2022 67:45


Probably the most well-known Chinese philosopher around the world is Kongzi, typically called by his Latinized name, “Confucius.” And yet he did not write a single book. Rather, his students collected Kongzi's life and teachings into the Analects, a text which has become immensely influential from ancient Confucian traditions up to the current day.  In The Analects: A Guide (Oxford University Press, 2021), Erin M. Cline argues that we should understand the Analects not only as a guide for living, or a philosophical set of sayings on ethics, but as a sacred text. She argues that this approach helps us reflect more critically about the categories like the sacred, and to appreciate the role of Kongzi as a personal exemplar in the text. Engaging closely with the text of the Analects as well as traditional commentaries and contemporary scholarship, Cline introduces the reader to the history of this text as well its major themes, such as ritual, filial piety, and the relationship between the ordinary and the sacred. By situating the Analects alongside works such as the Nichomachean Ethics and the Bible, her work investigates the text from both philosophical and religious perspectives, while reflecting on these categories themselves. Malcolm Keating is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS College. His research focuses on Sanskrit philosophy of language and epistemology. He is the author of Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) and host of the podcast Sutras (and stuff). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

New Books in Philosophy
Erin M. Cline, "The Analects: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2021)

New Books in Philosophy

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2022 67:45


Probably the most well-known Chinese philosopher around the world is Kongzi, typically called by his Latinized name, “Confucius.” And yet he did not write a single book. Rather, his students collected Kongzi's life and teachings into the Analects, a text which has become immensely influential from ancient Confucian traditions up to the current day.  In The Analects: A Guide (Oxford University Press, 2021), Erin M. Cline argues that we should understand the Analects not only as a guide for living, or a philosophical set of sayings on ethics, but as a sacred text. She argues that this approach helps us reflect more critically about the categories like the sacred, and to appreciate the role of Kongzi as a personal exemplar in the text. Engaging closely with the text of the Analects as well as traditional commentaries and contemporary scholarship, Cline introduces the reader to the history of this text as well its major themes, such as ritual, filial piety, and the relationship between the ordinary and the sacred. By situating the Analects alongside works such as the Nichomachean Ethics and the Bible, her work investigates the text from both philosophical and religious perspectives, while reflecting on these categories themselves. Malcolm Keating is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS College. His research focuses on Sanskrit philosophy of language and epistemology. He is the author of Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) and host of the podcast Sutras (and stuff). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/philosophy

New Books in East Asian Studies
Erin M. Cline, "The Analects: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2021)

New Books in East Asian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2022 67:45


Probably the most well-known Chinese philosopher around the world is Kongzi, typically called by his Latinized name, “Confucius.” And yet he did not write a single book. Rather, his students collected Kongzi's life and teachings into the Analects, a text which has become immensely influential from ancient Confucian traditions up to the current day.  In The Analects: A Guide (Oxford University Press, 2021), Erin M. Cline argues that we should understand the Analects not only as a guide for living, or a philosophical set of sayings on ethics, but as a sacred text. She argues that this approach helps us reflect more critically about the categories like the sacred, and to appreciate the role of Kongzi as a personal exemplar in the text. Engaging closely with the text of the Analects as well as traditional commentaries and contemporary scholarship, Cline introduces the reader to the history of this text as well its major themes, such as ritual, filial piety, and the relationship between the ordinary and the sacred. By situating the Analects alongside works such as the Nichomachean Ethics and the Bible, her work investigates the text from both philosophical and religious perspectives, while reflecting on these categories themselves. Malcolm Keating is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS College. His research focuses on Sanskrit philosophy of language and epistemology. He is the author of Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) and host of the podcast Sutras (and stuff). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

New Books Network
Erin M. Cline, "The Analects: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2021)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2022 67:45


Probably the most well-known Chinese philosopher around the world is Kongzi, typically called by his Latinized name, “Confucius.” And yet he did not write a single book. Rather, his students collected Kongzi's life and teachings into the Analects, a text which has become immensely influential from ancient Confucian traditions up to the current day.  In The Analects: A Guide (Oxford University Press, 2021), Erin M. Cline argues that we should understand the Analects not only as a guide for living, or a philosophical set of sayings on ethics, but as a sacred text. She argues that this approach helps us reflect more critically about the categories like the sacred, and to appreciate the role of Kongzi as a personal exemplar in the text. Engaging closely with the text of the Analects as well as traditional commentaries and contemporary scholarship, Cline introduces the reader to the history of this text as well its major themes, such as ritual, filial piety, and the relationship between the ordinary and the sacred. By situating the Analects alongside works such as the Nichomachean Ethics and the Bible, her work investigates the text from both philosophical and religious perspectives, while reflecting on these categories themselves. Malcolm Keating is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS College. His research focuses on Sanskrit philosophy of language and epistemology. He is the author of Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) and host of the podcast Sutras (and stuff). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in Intellectual History
Erin M. Cline, "The Analects: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2021)

New Books in Intellectual History

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2022 67:45


Probably the most well-known Chinese philosopher around the world is Kongzi, typically called by his Latinized name, “Confucius.” And yet he did not write a single book. Rather, his students collected Kongzi's life and teachings into the Analects, a text which has become immensely influential from ancient Confucian traditions up to the current day.  In The Analects: A Guide (Oxford University Press, 2021), Erin M. Cline argues that we should understand the Analects not only as a guide for living, or a philosophical set of sayings on ethics, but as a sacred text. She argues that this approach helps us reflect more critically about the categories like the sacred, and to appreciate the role of Kongzi as a personal exemplar in the text. Engaging closely with the text of the Analects as well as traditional commentaries and contemporary scholarship, Cline introduces the reader to the history of this text as well its major themes, such as ritual, filial piety, and the relationship between the ordinary and the sacred. By situating the Analects alongside works such as the Nichomachean Ethics and the Bible, her work investigates the text from both philosophical and religious perspectives, while reflecting on these categories themselves. Malcolm Keating is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS College. His research focuses on Sanskrit philosophy of language and epistemology. He is the author of Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) and host of the podcast Sutras (and stuff). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Erin M. Cline, "The Analects: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2021)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2022 67:45


Probably the most well-known Chinese philosopher around the world is Kongzi, typically called by his Latinized name, “Confucius.” And yet he did not write a single book. Rather, his students collected Kongzi's life and teachings into the Analects, a text which has become immensely influential from ancient Confucian traditions up to the current day.  In The Analects: A Guide (Oxford University Press, 2021), Erin M. Cline argues that we should understand the Analects not only as a guide for living, or a philosophical set of sayings on ethics, but as a sacred text. She argues that this approach helps us reflect more critically about the categories like the sacred, and to appreciate the role of Kongzi as a personal exemplar in the text. Engaging closely with the text of the Analects as well as traditional commentaries and contemporary scholarship, Cline introduces the reader to the history of this text as well its major themes, such as ritual, filial piety, and the relationship between the ordinary and the sacred. By situating the Analects alongside works such as the Nichomachean Ethics and the Bible, her work investigates the text from both philosophical and religious perspectives, while reflecting on these categories themselves. Malcolm Keating is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS College. His research focuses on Sanskrit philosophy of language and epistemology. He is the author of Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) and host of the podcast Sutras (and stuff).

Ad Navseam
Licensed to Ille: Children's Books in Latin (Ad Navseam, Episode 69)

Ad Navseam

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2022 71:14


Ever since the 1960 publication of Winnie Ille Pu (Winnie the Pooh...or is that Winnie that Well-Known Pooh Over There?) there has been a steady stream over the years of popular, contemporary texts translated into Latin. But why? Are these just gimmicky forays on shelves, unread and unthumbed heores, or can they be effective tools in actually learning Latin? Jeff and Dave tackle this question and many more as they walk the listener through Latinized versions of Seuss, Carroll, Sendak and Rowling. Highlights: Does Hobbitus, Ille really deserve the scorn sent its way? For all the skill of the Harry Potter translator did he really identify the titular character as "The Boy Who Died"? Don't miss the post-Christmas blues, and some bees.

Harmony Christian Church
Week 3 – The Enemy (Part 1 – Fiction or Reality)

Harmony Christian Church

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2021 47:17


"The devil made me do it!"  Ever heard that before?  What's the deal with the devil anyway - should we believe in him or not?  What does the scripture say, if anything, and what role does he or can he play in our life?  Tune in to part 1 of this two-part sermon about Satan, the enemy. When you give at Harmony, you are investing in life change and are Advancing the Kingdom!  GIVE TODAY, text any amount to (859) 459-0316  to get started (or give online @ my.harmonychurch.cc/give . ------------------- Sermon Notes Slide Key: Sermons always start with “OPENING ILLUSTRATION:” and end with “CLOSING ILLUSTRATION:"All scriptures are NIV unless otherwise notedBold = Slide textBold Red = Scriptures (please reflect formatting of scripture on slides, i.e. - underlines, italics, etc.)“b" or “B” on a line by itself = Slide break/New slideBold ALL CAPS WORDS = heading to be ignored[some text] = programming notes to be paid attention to OPENING ILLUSTRATION: When I was a kid, I LOVED Halloween.  I remember one year my mom bought me this red spandex suit with a black pitchfork and I dressed up as the devil.   I really looked more like a plump tomato than anything else. But I thought it was funny because, to me, the devil seemed more like a cartoon character than anything real. I think if we're honest, that's kind of how most of us think about the devil. -We picture him on Sylvester the cat's shoulder along with an angel telling him not to eat a mouse. - We picture him as an invention of man to explain evil But did you know that's not how the scripture describes the devil or his other name, Satan - both words mean the same thing - the devil was the Latinized version of the Greek word diabolos - which meant accuser which is what Satan means. The term Satan actually means “adversary” or “accuser” - think “prosecutor.” Satan at times in the OT is used as a verb - someone is acting as a Satan. At other times it's used as a noun - they are the Satan-but in the OT it isn't entirely clear if Satan is doing any wrong or if he's just fulfilling his duty as a prosecutor. I did a deep dive into the history of Satan and found that there is more than I have time to cover.   What we do know is it is the New Testament and other extra-biblical documents that equate Satan as The Adversary of God. He is not painted as some cartoon character, but a real, true threat to those who chose to follow Jesus. ILLUSTRATION: It reminds me of back in June there was this goofball Youtuber named Logan Paul who took on boxing Floyd Mayweather (50-0 pro boxing record - 12 world titles in 5 weight classes).  Logan Paul's resume was that he had fought and lost one match and that he had 20 million Social media subscribers.  He seemed like a cartoon character until he got in the ring.  He didn't beat Mayweather, but he stayed with him and I'm not sure I'd want to put on the gloves with him… Here's the deal, I'm a critic at heart.  I struggle through lots of these things going, “Really?”  So, if I could, I want to give you the most convincing reason I have for believing that this evil, spiritual being exists. Here is the most convincing argument, to me, about why you should believe in Satan  Because Jesus acted and operated as though Satan was a real spiritual entity who sought to oppose the work of God.  For me, if you have predicted and then actually lived out dying and bringing yourself back from the dead, then I am willing to take your word on other topics as well. And for Jesus, Satan as an opposer was reality. Jesus was tempted by Satan in the desert (Matthew 4, Mark 1)Jesus referenced Satans work against the Gospel message in His parables (Mark 4)Jesus understood some physical infirmities to be partially the action of the Satanic (Luke 13:16)Satan is not equal to God in authority or power - he has to ask for authority, he can be cast out(Luke 22:31, Luke 11) So, what does the scripture say about Satan that's so important that I would spend this sermon and the next on it? Remember last week how I told you the story of walking in the rain carrying an umbrella and how I think that's how a lot of us are when it comes to the spiritual realm?  We exist in it but don't recognize the damage it is doing to us and that we have ways of standing against it and protecting ourselves. 2 things I think everyone should know about Satan: Those who are apart from Christ are under his rule. Several times Jesus spoke of Satan as “The prince of this world” (John 12:31, John 14:30, John 16:11) Paul calls him “The god of this age” 2 Corinthians 4:4 4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. John again tells us in 1 John 1 John 5:19 19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. When Jesus is being tempted by Satan and Satan offers him all the kingdoms of the world, he's not using hyperbole.  He is legitimately trying to bring Jesus under his control by offering Jesus what Satan has and Jesus wants… This doesn't mean that people who are not Christians are part of some worldwide Satanic movement What it means is that they live under a spiritual delusion and captivity that Satan reigns within because of our abandonment of GodWhen Adam and Eve were tempted by the serpent to eat the fruit, the temptation was to remove themselves from under that authority and reign of God, to under their own authority and reign through the knowledge of good and evil (Law) But ultimately they were removing themselves from a relationship with God that was protecting them from the power that law gave to sin… Paul says it this way… 1 Corinthians 15:6 “The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.” Death has a sting to it because sin is present and keeps us from being present with God.  Law gives sin its power - if there were no laws to break, there would be no sin because sin is a breaking of law. Satan's control over us is in our persistence to remain under law and our own leadership instead of engaging in a relationship with the creator God. We have been bound over to Satan. Jesus died to free you from sin and the reign of Satan that sin provided in your life. This is how the author of Hebrews says it: Hebrews 2:14-15 14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. Part of what Jesus' death on the cross did was to break the hold death had on humanity. Death was the power Satan used to bind us through sin and law - Jesus' death broke that hold and set us free…

Abbasid History Podcast

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī (865–925 CE), also known by his Latinized name Rhazes, was one of the greatest figures in the history of medicine in the Islamic tradition, and one of its most controversial philosophers. While we have ample surviving evidence for his medical thought, his philosophical ideas mostly have to be pieced together on the basis of reports found in other authors, who are often hostile to him. To discuss with us the life, work and legacy of al-Rāzī is Prof. Peter Adamson. Prof. Adamson is professor of philosophy in late antiquity and in the Islamic world at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as well as professor of ancient and medieval philosophy at King's College London. Aside from articles, monographs, and edited books, he is known for hosting the weekly podcast "History of Philosophy without any gaps". Timestamps 02.10: Al-Rāzī was born in the city of Rayy near modern-day Tehran before moving to Baghdad to practise medicine. What do we know about his life? 06:13: The metaphysical doctrine of Razi derives from the theory of the "five eternals", according to which the world is produced out of an interaction between God and four other eternal principles. Tell us more about this. 11.40: He has been accused of heresy by Muslims for denying prophecy, or perhaps he was misunderstood? 20.10: There is a statue of al-Rāzī donated by the Islamic Republic of Iran outside the United Nations Office at Vienna. How can his philosophical heritage still be relevant to us today? 24.15: And finally before we end tell us where listeners can turn next to learn more about today's topic and what are other current projects that listeners can anticipate? Sponsors We are sponsored by IHRC bookshop. Listeners get a 15% discount on all purchases. Visit IHRC bookshop at shop.ihrc.org and use discount code AHP15 at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. Contact IHRC bookshop for details. We are also sponsored by Turath Publishing. Buy now An Introduction to Sahih al-Bukhari by Mustafa al-Azami. Listeners get a 15% discount on all purchases. Visit Turath Publishing at Turath.co.uk and use discount code POD15 at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. Contact Turath Publishing for details.  

New Books in Urban Studies
Johana Londoño, "Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities" (Duke UP, 2020)

New Books in Urban Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 77:12


The rapid gentrification of Black and brown neighborhoods in urban areas by predominantly upper-class white and other white-adjacent peoples is largely facilitated by urban redevelopment and revitalization projects. These projects often usher in aesthetics that seek to attract those understood as desirable populations. But what happens when the aesthetics of poor Black and brown neighborhoods themselves become the vehicle for gentrification and urban renewal? As Johana Londoño writes, “the aesthetic depiction and manipulation of Latinx urban life and culture as a way to counteract the fear that Latinxs and their culture were transgressing normative expectations of urbanness” (ix). In her new book, Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities (Duke University Press, 2020), Dr. Londoño traces how Latinx people are targeted as problems in urban areas that need to be addressed. Simultaneously, architects, urban planners, policymakers, ethnographers, business owners, and settlement workers – all of whom Londoño refers to as “brokers” – were carefully pulling into their projects the visual aesthetics of barrios which would at once produce a Latinized space while simultaneously “not interfere in the economic and cultural interests of normative urbanity” (xvii). There was danger in representing barrios because it threatened urban normativity. For Londoño, “Because barrios in US cities are largely the result of unequal forces, reproducing barrio culture and spatial layouts, besides being parodic, would make plain the failures of liberalism to treat all individuals equally” (9-10). Representing barrios in full would reveal the unequal relations of power, state and federal disinvestment in Black and brown neighborhoods, and the economic and material realities of these neighborhoods that go into the formation of barrios. Abstraction but not disruption, however, seems to be have been the goal. By making Latinxs legible in a normative sense, their aesthetics then became implicated in the capitalist spatial order. “I argue that Latinx visibility has been made key to the cyclical nature of U.S. capitalist urbanism: its decay and the reconstitution of its normativity,” writes Londoño (5). The aesthetics found in barrios became abstracted enough to appeal to urban capitalism and thus became implemented onto the gentrifying urban landscape. By writing the history of barrios and the marginalization of Latinxs in urban spaces, and by focusing on the brokers who manipulate Latinx urban culture to make it visible in mainstream spaces, Johana Londoño underscores how the built environment as a racial project continues to build on racial hierarchies to maintain structures. She covers instances of manipulation of barrio aesthetics in New York, Miami, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Santa Ana and concludes in her hometown of Union City, New Jersey. Londoño's skill of highlighting the ways barrio aesthetics play out on the gentrifying landscape of the modern renting market seamlessly brings into focus all at once the racialized and spatial histories of a neighborhood, the decisions by brokers on how to target Latinx consumers, and implications of barrio aesthetics in an increasingly segregated urban landscape. Abstract Barrios is a book that should be read across ethnic studies, urban studies, and in the fields of art and architecture. Jonathan Cortez is a Ph.D. candidate of American Studies at Brown University. They are a historian of 20th-century issues of race, labor, (im)migration, surveillance, space, relational Ethnic Studies, and Latinx Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Sociology
Johana Londoño, "Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities" (Duke UP, 2020)

New Books in Sociology

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 77:12


The rapid gentrification of Black and brown neighborhoods in urban areas by predominantly upper-class white and other white-adjacent peoples is largely facilitated by urban redevelopment and revitalization projects. These projects often usher in aesthetics that seek to attract those understood as desirable populations. But what happens when the aesthetics of poor Black and brown neighborhoods themselves become the vehicle for gentrification and urban renewal? As Johana Londoño writes, “the aesthetic depiction and manipulation of Latinx urban life and culture as a way to counteract the fear that Latinxs and their culture were transgressing normative expectations of urbanness” (ix). In her new book, Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities (Duke University Press, 2020), Dr. Londoño traces how Latinx people are targeted as problems in urban areas that need to be addressed. Simultaneously, architects, urban planners, policymakers, ethnographers, business owners, and settlement workers – all of whom Londoño refers to as “brokers” – were carefully pulling into their projects the visual aesthetics of barrios which would at once produce a Latinized space while simultaneously “not interfere in the economic and cultural interests of normative urbanity” (xvii). There was danger in representing barrios because it threatened urban normativity. For Londoño, “Because barrios in US cities are largely the result of unequal forces, reproducing barrio culture and spatial layouts, besides being parodic, would make plain the failures of liberalism to treat all individuals equally” (9-10). Representing barrios in full would reveal the unequal relations of power, state and federal disinvestment in Black and brown neighborhoods, and the economic and material realities of these neighborhoods that go into the formation of barrios. Abstraction but not disruption, however, seems to be have been the goal. By making Latinxs legible in a normative sense, their aesthetics then became implicated in the capitalist spatial order. “I argue that Latinx visibility has been made key to the cyclical nature of U.S. capitalist urbanism: its decay and the reconstitution of its normativity,” writes Londoño (5). The aesthetics found in barrios became abstracted enough to appeal to urban capitalism and thus became implemented onto the gentrifying urban landscape. By writing the history of barrios and the marginalization of Latinxs in urban spaces, and by focusing on the brokers who manipulate Latinx urban culture to make it visible in mainstream spaces, Johana Londoño underscores how the built environment as a racial project continues to build on racial hierarchies to maintain structures. She covers instances of manipulation of barrio aesthetics in New York, Miami, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Santa Ana and concludes in her hometown of Union City, New Jersey. Londoño’s skill of highlighting the ways barrio aesthetics play out on the gentrifying landscape of the modern renting market seamlessly brings into focus all at once the racialized and spatial histories of a neighborhood, the decisions by brokers on how to target Latinx consumers, and implications of barrio aesthetics in an increasingly segregated urban landscape. Abstract Barrios is a book that should be read across ethnic studies, urban studies, and in the fields of art and architecture. Jonathan Cortez is a Ph.D. candidate of American Studies at Brown University. They are a historian of 20th-century issues of race, labor, (im)migration, surveillance, space, relational Ethnic Studies, and Latinx Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

New Books Network
Johana Londoño, "Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities" (Duke UP, 2020)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 77:12


The rapid gentrification of Black and brown neighborhoods in urban areas by predominantly upper-class white and other white-adjacent peoples is largely facilitated by urban redevelopment and revitalization projects. These projects often usher in aesthetics that seek to attract those understood as desirable populations. But what happens when the aesthetics of poor Black and brown neighborhoods themselves become the vehicle for gentrification and urban renewal? As Johana Londoño writes, “the aesthetic depiction and manipulation of Latinx urban life and culture as a way to counteract the fear that Latinxs and their culture were transgressing normative expectations of urbanness” (ix). In her new book, Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities (Duke University Press, 2020), Dr. Londoño traces how Latinx people are targeted as problems in urban areas that need to be addressed. Simultaneously, architects, urban planners, policymakers, ethnographers, business owners, and settlement workers – all of whom Londoño refers to as “brokers” – were carefully pulling into their projects the visual aesthetics of barrios which would at once produce a Latinized space while simultaneously “not interfere in the economic and cultural interests of normative urbanity” (xvii). There was danger in representing barrios because it threatened urban normativity. For Londoño, “Because barrios in US cities are largely the result of unequal forces, reproducing barrio culture and spatial layouts, besides being parodic, would make plain the failures of liberalism to treat all individuals equally” (9-10). Representing barrios in full would reveal the unequal relations of power, state and federal disinvestment in Black and brown neighborhoods, and the economic and material realities of these neighborhoods that go into the formation of barrios. Abstraction but not disruption, however, seems to be have been the goal. By making Latinxs legible in a normative sense, their aesthetics then became implicated in the capitalist spatial order. “I argue that Latinx visibility has been made key to the cyclical nature of U.S. capitalist urbanism: its decay and the reconstitution of its normativity,” writes Londoño (5). The aesthetics found in barrios became abstracted enough to appeal to urban capitalism and thus became implemented onto the gentrifying urban landscape. By writing the history of barrios and the marginalization of Latinxs in urban spaces, and by focusing on the brokers who manipulate Latinx urban culture to make it visible in mainstream spaces, Johana Londoño underscores how the built environment as a racial project continues to build on racial hierarchies to maintain structures. She covers instances of manipulation of barrio aesthetics in New York, Miami, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Santa Ana and concludes in her hometown of Union City, New Jersey. Londoño’s skill of highlighting the ways barrio aesthetics play out on the gentrifying landscape of the modern renting market seamlessly brings into focus all at once the racialized and spatial histories of a neighborhood, the decisions by brokers on how to target Latinx consumers, and implications of barrio aesthetics in an increasingly segregated urban landscape. Abstract Barrios is a book that should be read across ethnic studies, urban studies, and in the fields of art and architecture. Jonathan Cortez is a Ph.D. candidate of American Studies at Brown University. They are a historian of 20th-century issues of race, labor, (im)migration, surveillance, space, relational Ethnic Studies, and Latinx Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in Public Policy
Johana Londoño, "Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities" (Duke UP, 2020)

New Books in Public Policy

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 77:12


The rapid gentrification of Black and brown neighborhoods in urban areas by predominantly upper-class white and other white-adjacent peoples is largely facilitated by urban redevelopment and revitalization projects. These projects often usher in aesthetics that seek to attract those understood as desirable populations. But what happens when the aesthetics of poor Black and brown neighborhoods themselves become the vehicle for gentrification and urban renewal? As Johana Londoño writes, “the aesthetic depiction and manipulation of Latinx urban life and culture as a way to counteract the fear that Latinxs and their culture were transgressing normative expectations of urbanness” (ix). In her new book, Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities (Duke University Press, 2020), Dr. Londoño traces how Latinx people are targeted as problems in urban areas that need to be addressed. Simultaneously, architects, urban planners, policymakers, ethnographers, business owners, and settlement workers – all of whom Londoño refers to as “brokers” – were carefully pulling into their projects the visual aesthetics of barrios which would at once produce a Latinized space while simultaneously “not interfere in the economic and cultural interests of normative urbanity” (xvii). There was danger in representing barrios because it threatened urban normativity. For Londoño, “Because barrios in US cities are largely the result of unequal forces, reproducing barrio culture and spatial layouts, besides being parodic, would make plain the failures of liberalism to treat all individuals equally” (9-10). Representing barrios in full would reveal the unequal relations of power, state and federal disinvestment in Black and brown neighborhoods, and the economic and material realities of these neighborhoods that go into the formation of barrios. Abstraction but not disruption, however, seems to be have been the goal. By making Latinxs legible in a normative sense, their aesthetics then became implicated in the capitalist spatial order. “I argue that Latinx visibility has been made key to the cyclical nature of U.S. capitalist urbanism: its decay and the reconstitution of its normativity,” writes Londoño (5). The aesthetics found in barrios became abstracted enough to appeal to urban capitalism and thus became implemented onto the gentrifying urban landscape. By writing the history of barrios and the marginalization of Latinxs in urban spaces, and by focusing on the brokers who manipulate Latinx urban culture to make it visible in mainstream spaces, Johana Londoño underscores how the built environment as a racial project continues to build on racial hierarchies to maintain structures. She covers instances of manipulation of barrio aesthetics in New York, Miami, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Santa Ana and concludes in her hometown of Union City, New Jersey. Londoño’s skill of highlighting the ways barrio aesthetics play out on the gentrifying landscape of the modern renting market seamlessly brings into focus all at once the racialized and spatial histories of a neighborhood, the decisions by brokers on how to target Latinx consumers, and implications of barrio aesthetics in an increasingly segregated urban landscape. Abstract Barrios is a book that should be read across ethnic studies, urban studies, and in the fields of art and architecture. Jonathan Cortez is a Ph.D. candidate of American Studies at Brown University. They are a historian of 20th-century issues of race, labor, (im)migration, surveillance, space, relational Ethnic Studies, and Latinx Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

New Books in Geography
Johana Londoño, "Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities" (Duke UP, 2020)

New Books in Geography

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 77:12


The rapid gentrification of Black and brown neighborhoods in urban areas by predominantly upper-class white and other white-adjacent peoples is largely facilitated by urban redevelopment and revitalization projects. These projects often usher in aesthetics that seek to attract those understood as desirable populations. But what happens when the aesthetics of poor Black and brown neighborhoods themselves become the vehicle for gentrification and urban renewal? As Johana Londoño writes, “the aesthetic depiction and manipulation of Latinx urban life and culture as a way to counteract the fear that Latinxs and their culture were transgressing normative expectations of urbanness” (ix). In her new book, Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities (Duke University Press, 2020), Dr. Londoño traces how Latinx people are targeted as problems in urban areas that need to be addressed. Simultaneously, architects, urban planners, policymakers, ethnographers, business owners, and settlement workers – all of whom Londoño refers to as “brokers” – were carefully pulling into their projects the visual aesthetics of barrios which would at once produce a Latinized space while simultaneously “not interfere in the economic and cultural interests of normative urbanity” (xvii). There was danger in representing barrios because it threatened urban normativity. For Londoño, “Because barrios in US cities are largely the result of unequal forces, reproducing barrio culture and spatial layouts, besides being parodic, would make plain the failures of liberalism to treat all individuals equally” (9-10). Representing barrios in full would reveal the unequal relations of power, state and federal disinvestment in Black and brown neighborhoods, and the economic and material realities of these neighborhoods that go into the formation of barrios. Abstraction but not disruption, however, seems to be have been the goal. By making Latinxs legible in a normative sense, their aesthetics then became implicated in the capitalist spatial order. “I argue that Latinx visibility has been made key to the cyclical nature of U.S. capitalist urbanism: its decay and the reconstitution of its normativity,” writes Londoño (5). The aesthetics found in barrios became abstracted enough to appeal to urban capitalism and thus became implemented onto the gentrifying urban landscape. By writing the history of barrios and the marginalization of Latinxs in urban spaces, and by focusing on the brokers who manipulate Latinx urban culture to make it visible in mainstream spaces, Johana Londoño underscores how the built environment as a racial project continues to build on racial hierarchies to maintain structures. She covers instances of manipulation of barrio aesthetics in New York, Miami, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Santa Ana and concludes in her hometown of Union City, New Jersey. Londoño’s skill of highlighting the ways barrio aesthetics play out on the gentrifying landscape of the modern renting market seamlessly brings into focus all at once the racialized and spatial histories of a neighborhood, the decisions by brokers on how to target Latinx consumers, and implications of barrio aesthetics in an increasingly segregated urban landscape. Abstract Barrios is a book that should be read across ethnic studies, urban studies, and in the fields of art and architecture. Jonathan Cortez is a Ph.D. candidate of American Studies at Brown University. They are a historian of 20th-century issues of race, labor, (im)migration, surveillance, space, relational Ethnic Studies, and Latinx Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/geography

New Books in American Studies
Johana Londoño, "Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities" (Duke UP, 2020)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 77:12


The rapid gentrification of Black and brown neighborhoods in urban areas by predominantly upper-class white and other white-adjacent peoples is largely facilitated by urban redevelopment and revitalization projects. These projects often usher in aesthetics that seek to attract those understood as desirable populations. But what happens when the aesthetics of poor Black and brown neighborhoods themselves become the vehicle for gentrification and urban renewal? As Johana Londoño writes, “the aesthetic depiction and manipulation of Latinx urban life and culture as a way to counteract the fear that Latinxs and their culture were transgressing normative expectations of urbanness” (ix). In her new book, Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities (Duke University Press, 2020), Dr. Londoño traces how Latinx people are targeted as problems in urban areas that need to be addressed. Simultaneously, architects, urban planners, policymakers, ethnographers, business owners, and settlement workers – all of whom Londoño refers to as “brokers” – were carefully pulling into their projects the visual aesthetics of barrios which would at once produce a Latinized space while simultaneously “not interfere in the economic and cultural interests of normative urbanity” (xvii). There was danger in representing barrios because it threatened urban normativity. For Londoño, “Because barrios in US cities are largely the result of unequal forces, reproducing barrio culture and spatial layouts, besides being parodic, would make plain the failures of liberalism to treat all individuals equally” (9-10). Representing barrios in full would reveal the unequal relations of power, state and federal disinvestment in Black and brown neighborhoods, and the economic and material realities of these neighborhoods that go into the formation of barrios. Abstraction but not disruption, however, seems to be have been the goal. By making Latinxs legible in a normative sense, their aesthetics then became implicated in the capitalist spatial order. “I argue that Latinx visibility has been made key to the cyclical nature of U.S. capitalist urbanism: its decay and the reconstitution of its normativity,” writes Londoño (5). The aesthetics found in barrios became abstracted enough to appeal to urban capitalism and thus became implemented onto the gentrifying urban landscape. By writing the history of barrios and the marginalization of Latinxs in urban spaces, and by focusing on the brokers who manipulate Latinx urban culture to make it visible in mainstream spaces, Johana Londoño underscores how the built environment as a racial project continues to build on racial hierarchies to maintain structures. She covers instances of manipulation of barrio aesthetics in New York, Miami, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Santa Ana and concludes in her hometown of Union City, New Jersey. Londoño’s skill of highlighting the ways barrio aesthetics play out on the gentrifying landscape of the modern renting market seamlessly brings into focus all at once the racialized and spatial histories of a neighborhood, the decisions by brokers on how to target Latinx consumers, and implications of barrio aesthetics in an increasingly segregated urban landscape. Abstract Barrios is a book that should be read across ethnic studies, urban studies, and in the fields of art and architecture. Jonathan Cortez is a Ph.D. candidate of American Studies at Brown University. They are a historian of 20th-century issues of race, labor, (im)migration, surveillance, space, relational Ethnic Studies, and Latinx Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

New Books in Latino Studies
Johana Londoño, "Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities" (Duke UP, 2020)

New Books in Latino Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 77:12


The rapid gentrification of Black and brown neighborhoods in urban areas by predominantly upper-class white and other white-adjacent peoples is largely facilitated by urban redevelopment and revitalization projects. These projects often usher in aesthetics that seek to attract those understood as desirable populations. But what happens when the aesthetics of poor Black and brown neighborhoods themselves become the vehicle for gentrification and urban renewal? As Johana Londoño writes, “the aesthetic depiction and manipulation of Latinx urban life and culture as a way to counteract the fear that Latinxs and their culture were transgressing normative expectations of urbanness” (ix). In her new book, Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities (Duke University Press, 2020), Dr. Londoño traces how Latinx people are targeted as problems in urban areas that need to be addressed. Simultaneously, architects, urban planners, policymakers, ethnographers, business owners, and settlement workers – all of whom Londoño refers to as “brokers” – were carefully pulling into their projects the visual aesthetics of barrios which would at once produce a Latinized space while simultaneously “not interfere in the economic and cultural interests of normative urbanity” (xvii). There was danger in representing barrios because it threatened urban normativity. For Londoño, “Because barrios in US cities are largely the result of unequal forces, reproducing barrio culture and spatial layouts, besides being parodic, would make plain the failures of liberalism to treat all individuals equally” (9-10). Representing barrios in full would reveal the unequal relations of power, state and federal disinvestment in Black and brown neighborhoods, and the economic and material realities of these neighborhoods that go into the formation of barrios. Abstraction but not disruption, however, seems to be have been the goal. By making Latinxs legible in a normative sense, their aesthetics then became implicated in the capitalist spatial order. “I argue that Latinx visibility has been made key to the cyclical nature of U.S. capitalist urbanism: its decay and the reconstitution of its normativity,” writes Londoño (5). The aesthetics found in barrios became abstracted enough to appeal to urban capitalism and thus became implemented onto the gentrifying urban landscape. By writing the history of barrios and the marginalization of Latinxs in urban spaces, and by focusing on the brokers who manipulate Latinx urban culture to make it visible in mainstream spaces, Johana Londoño underscores how the built environment as a racial project continues to build on racial hierarchies to maintain structures. She covers instances of manipulation of barrio aesthetics in New York, Miami, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Santa Ana and concludes in her hometown of Union City, New Jersey. Londoño’s skill of highlighting the ways barrio aesthetics play out on the gentrifying landscape of the modern renting market seamlessly brings into focus all at once the racialized and spatial histories of a neighborhood, the decisions by brokers on how to target Latinx consumers, and implications of barrio aesthetics in an increasingly segregated urban landscape. Abstract Barrios is a book that should be read across ethnic studies, urban studies, and in the fields of art and architecture. Jonathan Cortez is a Ph.D. candidate of American Studies at Brown University. They are a historian of 20th-century issues of race, labor, (im)migration, surveillance, space, relational Ethnic Studies, and Latinx Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/latino-studies

New Books in History
Johana Londoño, "Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities" (Duke UP, 2020)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 77:12


The rapid gentrification of Black and brown neighborhoods in urban areas by predominantly upper-class white and other white-adjacent peoples is largely facilitated by urban redevelopment and revitalization projects. These projects often usher in aesthetics that seek to attract those understood as desirable populations. But what happens when the aesthetics of poor Black and brown neighborhoods themselves become the vehicle for gentrification and urban renewal? As Johana Londoño writes, “the aesthetic depiction and manipulation of Latinx urban life and culture as a way to counteract the fear that Latinxs and their culture were transgressing normative expectations of urbanness” (ix). In her new book, Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities (Duke University Press, 2020), Dr. Londoño traces how Latinx people are targeted as problems in urban areas that need to be addressed. Simultaneously, architects, urban planners, policymakers, ethnographers, business owners, and settlement workers – all of whom Londoño refers to as “brokers” – were carefully pulling into their projects the visual aesthetics of barrios which would at once produce a Latinized space while simultaneously “not interfere in the economic and cultural interests of normative urbanity” (xvii). There was danger in representing barrios because it threatened urban normativity. For Londoño, “Because barrios in US cities are largely the result of unequal forces, reproducing barrio culture and spatial layouts, besides being parodic, would make plain the failures of liberalism to treat all individuals equally” (9-10). Representing barrios in full would reveal the unequal relations of power, state and federal disinvestment in Black and brown neighborhoods, and the economic and material realities of these neighborhoods that go into the formation of barrios. Abstraction but not disruption, however, seems to be have been the goal. By making Latinxs legible in a normative sense, their aesthetics then became implicated in the capitalist spatial order. “I argue that Latinx visibility has been made key to the cyclical nature of U.S. capitalist urbanism: its decay and the reconstitution of its normativity,” writes Londoño (5). The aesthetics found in barrios became abstracted enough to appeal to urban capitalism and thus became implemented onto the gentrifying urban landscape. By writing the history of barrios and the marginalization of Latinxs in urban spaces, and by focusing on the brokers who manipulate Latinx urban culture to make it visible in mainstream spaces, Johana Londoño underscores how the built environment as a racial project continues to build on racial hierarchies to maintain structures. She covers instances of manipulation of barrio aesthetics in New York, Miami, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Santa Ana and concludes in her hometown of Union City, New Jersey. Londoño’s skill of highlighting the ways barrio aesthetics play out on the gentrifying landscape of the modern renting market seamlessly brings into focus all at once the racialized and spatial histories of a neighborhood, the decisions by brokers on how to target Latinx consumers, and implications of barrio aesthetics in an increasingly segregated urban landscape. Abstract Barrios is a book that should be read across ethnic studies, urban studies, and in the fields of art and architecture. Jonathan Cortez is a Ph.D. candidate of American Studies at Brown University. They are a historian of 20th-century issues of race, labor, (im)migration, surveillance, space, relational Ethnic Studies, and Latinx Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Growing Native
Simmondsia chinensis

Growing Native

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2021 4:57


Simmondsia chinensisis is now in its own family, Simmondsiaceae, and not in the boxwood family, Buxaceae. Yay! The foliage and stems of jojoba are browsed by wildlife and domestic critters. The nuts are eaten as well, explaining other  common names like goat-nut, pig-nut and deer-nut. Yes the nuts are edible for humans too, but just a few at a time please, as too many will act as a laxative. That’s not hard to understand considering the liquid wax found in the seed. Jojoba is an important commercial plant because of that liquid wax, but don’t forget it is also a beautiful wild evergreen shrub. Even Arizona Flora says “it is a rather handsome shrub.” That’s the truth! Anyway, I do love the story of how jojoba’s Latinized name came about and I’m glad I got to tell it. The photos are mine and taken in the Dos Cabezas Mountains. Jojoba is dioecious, so male and female flowers are found on separate plants and I thought you’d like to see the male and female flowers.

Growing Native
Simmondsia chinensis

Growing Native

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2021 4:57


Simmondsia chinensisis is now in its own family, Simmondsiaceae, and not in the boxwood family, Buxaceae. Yay! The foliage and stems of jojoba are browsed by wildlife and domestic critters. The nuts are eaten as well, explaining other  common names like goat-nut, pig-nut and deer-nut. Yes the nuts are edible for humans too, but just a few at a time please, as too many will act as a laxative. That’s not hard to understand considering the liquid wax found in the seed. Jojoba is an important commercial plant because of that liquid wax, but don’t forget it is also a beautiful wild evergreen shrub. Even Arizona Flora says “it is a rather handsome shrub.” That’s the truth! Anyway, I do love the story of how jojoba’s Latinized name came about and I’m glad I got to tell it. The photos are mine and taken in the Dos Cabezas Mountains. Jojoba is dioecious, so male and female flowers are found on separate plants and I thought you’d like to see the male and female flowers.

Today's Catholic Mass Readings
Today's Catholic Mass Readings Monday, December 21, 2020

Today's Catholic Mass Readings

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2020


Full Text of ReadingsMonday of the Fourth Week of Advent Lectionary: 197All podcast readings are produced by the USCCB and are from the Catholic Lectionary, based on the New American Bible and approved for use in the United States _______________________________________The Saint of the day is St. Peter Canisius An important figure in the Catholic counter-reformation that responded to the 16th century spread of Protestantism, the priest and Doctor of the Church Saint Peter Canisius is remembered liturgically on Dec. 21.His efforts as a preacher, author, and religious educator strengthened the Catholic faith in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and parts of Central Europe during a period of doctrinal confusion.Writing about St. Peter Canisius in 1897, Pope Leo XIII noted similarities between the late 19th century and the saint's own lifetime, a period when the spirit of revolution and looseness of doctrine resulted in a great loss of faith and decline in morals.More recently, in a 2011 general audience, Pope Benedict XVI taught that the Jesuit saint found success in ministry by living as a personal witness of Jesus and an instrument at his disposal, bound to him closely by faith in his Gospel and in his Church.Peter Kanis his name later Latinized to Canisius was born in the Netherlands during May 1521. His father Jacob was a wealthy public official, but his mother Aegidia died soon after his birth. Peter began his university studies in Cologne around age 15, and obtained his master's degree before he turned 20. His friends during this period included several men who held to the Catholic faith in opposition to the Protestant doctrines then gaining ground in Germany.Despite his father's preference that he should marry, Peter made a decision in 1540 to remain celibate. Three years later he entered the Society of Jesus under the influence of Blessed Peter Faber, one of the first companions of Saint Ignatius Loyola. He founded the first Jesuit house in Germany and became a priest in 1546.Only one year after his ordination, Peter accompanied the Bishop of Augsburg to the Council of Trent as a theological adviser. He spent a portion of his time in Italy working directly with Saint Ignatius Loyola, before leaving for Bavaria where he would serve as a university professor as well as a catechist and preacher. This combination of academic and pastoral work continued at Vienna from 1552, allowing him to visit and assist many Austrian parishes which found themselves without a priest.During the mid-1550s Peter's evangelistic journeys took him to Prague, where he eventually founded a Jesuit school along with another in Bavaria, and later a third in Munich. The year 1555, in particular, was a landmark for Canisius: St. Ignatius promoted him to a leadership position within the order, which he held until 1569, and he published the first and longest version of his Catholic catechism. This work, and its two shorter adaptations, went through hundreds of printings and remained in use for centuries.Involved in discussions with Protestants during 1557, Peter made a strong case for the Church by showing how the adherents of Protestantism could not agree with one another in matters of doctrine. Meanwhile, he maintained his commitment to religious instruction on the popular level teaching children, giving retreats, and preaching carefully-crafted, doctrinally-rich sermons to large crowds.Canisius' service to the Council of Trent continued during the early 1560s, though mostly from a distance. He kept up a demanding schedule of preaching and establishing universities, while also working to ensure that the council's decrees were received and followed in Germany after it concluded. His tireless efforts over the next two decades contributed to a major revival of German Catholicism.A mystical experience in 1584 convinced Canisius that he should cease his travels and remain in Switzerland for the rest of his life. He spent his last years building up the Church in Fribourg through his preaching, teaching, and writing. Peter suffered a near-fatal stroke in 1591, but recovered and continued as an author for six years. The Dutch Jesuit saw writing as an essential form of apostolic work, a view supported by the continued use of his catechism long after his death on Dec. 21, 1597.St. Peter Canisius was simultaneously canonized and declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XI in May of 1925. In a famous saying, the Jesuit priest revealed the secret behind the accomplishments of his energetic and fruitful life: If you have too much to do, with God's help you will find time to do it all. Saint of the Day Copyright CNA, Catholic News Agency

Today's Catholic Mass Readings
Today's Catholic Mass Readings Monday, November 9, 2020

Today's Catholic Mass Readings

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2020


Full Text of ReadingsFeast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome Lectionary: 671All podcast readings are produced by the USCCB and are from the Catholic Lectionary, based on the New American Bible and approved for use in the United States _______________________________________The Saint of the day is St. Benignus of KilbannonBenignus of Kilbannon was the son of Sesenen, an Irish chieftain in the part of Ireland which is now County Meath. He was baptized by St. Patrick, and became his favorite disciple and coadjutor in the See of Armagh.His gentle and lovable disposition suggested the name Benen, which has been Latinized as Benignus. He followed his master in all of his travels and assisted him in his missionary labors, giving most valuable assistance in the formation of choral services. Because of his musical attributes, he was known as "Patrick's psalm-singer," and he drew thousands of souls to Christ through his sweet voice.St. Benignus is said not only to have assisted in compiling the great Irish code of Laws and the Senchus Mor, but also to have contributed materials for the "Psalter of Cashel," and the "Book of Rights." He was present at the famous synod which passed the canon recognizing "the See Of the Apostle Peter" as the final court of appeal in difficult cases, which canon is to be found in the Book of Armagh.St. Benignus resigned his coadjutorship in 467 and died at the close of the same year. His feast is celebrated on the 9th of November.Most authorities have identified St. Patrick's psalm-singer with the St. Benignus who founded Kilbannon, near Tuam, though there is another Irish St. Benignus who comes from Armagh. Though the two saints are often confused, they were contemporaries. Saint of the Day Copyright CNA, Catholic News Agency

Quiz Quiz Bang Bang Trivia
Ep 61: General Trivia

Quiz Quiz Bang Bang Trivia

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2020 23:49


One year of trivia! David and Annie celebrate one year of hosting a trivia podcast! They celebrate the only way they know how - by doing another episode full of questions. We have a fun variety for any quiz lover. Can you answer the following questions: What color is an airplane's black box? The cycle or circle of little animals is better known by which word that is derived from the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek word? If you need a hint, we'll give you a sign. Which playwright wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead? What part of an acoustic guitar holds the strings to the body or soundboard of the guitar? La Giaconda is another name forthis famous piece of art. Find out in this episode! If you like this one, check out Episode 9 for another trivia practice episode!   Music Hot Swing, Fast Talkin, Bass Walker, Dances and Dames, Ambush by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Don't forget to follow us on social media for more trivia at home: Patreon - patreon.com/quizbang - Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Check out our fun extras for patrons and help us keep this podcast going. We appreciate any level of support! Website - quizbangpod.com Check out our website, it will have all the links for social media that you need and while you're there, why not go to the contact us page and submit a question! Facebook - @quizbangpodcast - we post episode links and silly lego pictures to go with our trivia questions. Enjoy the silly picture and give your best guess, we will respond to your answer the next day to give everyone a chance to guess. Instagram - Quiz Quiz Bang Bang (quizquizbangbang), we post silly lego pictures to go with our trivia questions. Enjoy the silly picture and give your best guess, we will respond to your answer the next day to give everyone a chance to guess. Twitter - @quizbangpod We want to start a fun community for our fellow trivia lovers. If you hear/think of a fun or challenging trivia question, post it to our twitter feed and we will repost it so everyone can take a stab it. Come for the trivia - stay for the trivia. Ko-Fi - ko-fi.com/quizbangpod - Keep that sweet caffeine running through our body with a Ko-Fi, power us through a late night of fact checking and editing!

30 Minutes
The Red-Naped Sapsucker

30 Minutes

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2020 5:11


When I was little boy I thought the name yellow-bellied sapsucker was the funniest thing I'd ever heard and though I did know it was some sort of bird, I took pleasure in calling a friend a yellow bellied sapsucker and laughing hysterically. I was a silly kid. There are four species of sapsuckers (Sphyrapicus spp.) in North America and I read that where their territories overlap they hybridize making identification confusing. When identifying the yellow-bellied, red-naped and red-breasted sapsuckers a favorite field guide says to “beware of relatively frequent probable hybrids” between the three species. Now you know. By the way, the vowel a in the name Sphyrapicus should be short not long, like the way I pronounced it. There are rules as to when a vowel is long or short in a Latinized scientific name, depending on which syllable it's found. That said, over the years I guess my approach has been to plow ahead and say the name with some authority and I'm guessing some folks think, “Wow, I didn't know that's the way you say that.” My apologies. I will try to mend my ways. The photo of the line of pecked holes on the trunk of the oak is mine. I don't think I could do be that precise with an electric drill and ruler. The photo of the male red-naped sapsucker is from Cornell Lab All About Birds: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-naped_Sapsucker/id Oh, and the field guide referred to above is: Finding Birds in Southeast Arizona from The Tucson Audubon Society. It's in its eighth edition and it is to die for if you are an amateur (me) or expert birder.

Growing Native
Simmondsia chinensis

Growing Native

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2019 4:57


I do love the story of how jojoba’s Latinized name came about and I’m glad I finally got to tell it.

jojoba latinized growing native
Future Primitive Podcasts
The Swan-Footed Queen

Future Primitive Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2018 55:32


In this week's episode Max Dashu speaks with Joanna about: Diana, the demonization of folk religion through a Latinized filter; the theme of devil worship as a way of explaining Pagan belief and practice; Herodias, the mythologization of the female villain; Holda the beneficent, a great Nature goddess; Frau Berthe and the time of the Old Goddess; praying to the Good Woman, a divine power that gives blessings to human beings and land; the Swan-footed Queen and Mother Goose; a substratum of folk divinity superseded by patriarchal order. The post The Swan-Footed Queen appeared first on Future Primitive Podcasts.

Growing Native
Toxicodendron rydbergii

Growing Native

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2017


I was sort of right, but mainly wrong about poison ivy’s Latinized name. The species found in Arizona is Toxicodendron…

Urantia Book
98 - The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident

Urantia Book

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2014


The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident (1077.1) 98:0.1 THE Melchizedek teachings entered Europe along many routes, but chiefly they came by way of Egypt and were embodied in Occidental philosophy after being thoroughly Hellenized and later Christianized. The ideals of the Western world were basically Socratic, and its later religious philosophy became that of Jesus as it was modified and compromised through contact with evolving Occidental philosophy and religion, all of which culminated in the Christian church. (1077.2) 98:0.2 For a long time in Europe the Salem missionaries carried on their activities, becoming gradually absorbed into many of the cults and ritual groups which periodically arose. Among those who maintained the Salem teachings in the purest form must be mentioned the Cynics. These preachers of faith and trust in God were still functioning in Roman Europe in the first century after Christ, being later incorporated into the newly forming Christian religion. (1077.3) 98:0.3 Much of the Salem doctrine was spread in Europe by the Jewish mercenary soldiers who fought in so many of the Occidental military struggles. In ancient times the Jews were famed as much for military valor as for theologic peculiarities. (1077.4) 98:0.4 The basic doctrines of Greek philosophy, Jewish theology, and Christian ethics were fundamentally repercussions of the earlier Melchizedek teachings. 1. The Salem Religion Among the Greeks (1077.5) 98:1.1 The Salem missionaries might have built up a great religious structure among the Greeks had it not been for their strict interpretation of their oath of ordination, a pledge imposed by Machiventa which forbade the organization of exclusive congregations for worship, and which exacted the promise of each teacher never to function as a priest, never to receive fees for religious service, only food, clothing, and shelter. When the Melchizedek teachers penetrated to pre-Hellenic Greece, they found a people who still fostered the traditions of Adamson and the days of the Andites, but these teachings had become greatly adulterated with the notions and beliefs of the hordes of inferior slaves that had been brought to the Greek shores in increasing numbers. This adulteration produced a reversion to a crude animism with bloody rites, the lower classes even making ceremonial out of the execution of condemned criminals. (1077.6) 98:1.2 The early influence of the Salem teachers was nearly destroyed by the so-called Aryan invasion from southern Europe and the East. These Hellenic invaders brought along with them anthropomorphic God concepts similar to those which their Aryan fellows had carried to India. This importation inaugurated the evolution of the Greek family of gods and goddesses. This new religion was partly based on the cults of the incoming Hellenic barbarians, but it also shared in the myths of the older inhabitants of Greece. (1078.1) 98:1.3 The Hellenic Greeks found the Mediterranean world largely dominated by the mother cult, and they imposed upon these peoples their man-god, Dyaus-Zeus, who had already become, like Yahweh among the henotheistic Semites, head of the whole Greek pantheon of subordinate gods. And the Greeks would have eventually achieved a true monotheism in the concept of Zeus except for their retention of the overcontrol of Fate. A God of final value must, himself, be the arbiter of fate and the creator of destiny. (1078.2) 98:1.4 As a consequence of these factors in religious evolution, there presently developed the popular belief in the happy-go-lucky gods of Mount Olympus, gods more human than divine, and gods which the intelligent Greeks never did regard very seriously. They neither greatly loved nor greatly feared these divinities of their own creation. They had a patriotic and racial feeling for Zeus and his family of half men and half gods, but they hardly reverenced or worshiped them. (1078.3) 98:1.5 The Hellenes became so impregnated with the antipriestcraft doctrines of the earlier Salem teachers that no priesthood of any importance ever arose in Greece. Even the making of images to the gods became more of a work in art than a matter of worship. (1078.4) 98:1.6 The Olympian gods illustrate man’s typical anthropomorphism. But the Greek mythology was more aesthetic than ethic. The Greek religion was helpful in that it portrayed a universe governed by a deity group. But Greek morals, ethics, and philosophy presently advanced far beyond the god concept, and this imbalance between intellectual and spiritual growth was as hazardous to Greece as it had proved to be in India. 2. Greek Philosophic Thought (1078.5) 98:2.1 A lightly regarded and superficial religion cannot endure, especially when it has no priesthood to foster its forms and to fill the hearts of the devotees with fear and awe. The Olympian religion did not promise salvation, nor did it quench the spiritual thirst of its believers; therefore was it doomed to perish. Within a millennium of its inception it had nearly vanished, and the Greeks were without a national religion, the gods of Olympus having lost their hold upon the better minds. (1078.6) 98:2.2 This was the situation when, during the sixth century before Christ, the Orient and the Levant experienced a revival of spiritual consciousness and a new awakening to the recognition of monotheism. But the West did not share in this new development; neither Europe nor northern Africa extensively participated in this religious renaissance. The Greeks, however, did engage in a magnificent intellectual advancement. They had begun to master fear and no longer sought religion as an antidote therefor, but they did not perceive that true religion is the cure for soul hunger, spiritual disquiet, and moral despair. They sought for the solace of the soul in deep thinking — philosophy and metaphysics. They turned from the contemplation of self-preservation — salvation — to self-realization and self-understanding. (1078.7) 98:2.3 By rigorous thought the Greeks attempted to attain that consciousness of security which would serve as a substitute for the belief in survival, but they utterly failed. Only the more intelligent among the higher classes of the Hellenic peoples could grasp this new teaching; the rank and file of the progeny of the slaves of former generations had no capacity for the reception of this new substitute for religion. (1079.1) 98:2.4 The philosophers disdained all forms of worship, notwithstanding that they practically all held loosely to the background of a belief in the Salem doctrine of “the Intelligence of the universe,” “the idea of God,” and “the Great Source.” In so far as the Greek philosophers gave recognition to the divine and the superfinite, they were frankly monotheistic; they gave scant recognition to the whole galaxy of Olympian gods and goddesses. (1079.2) 98:2.5 The Greek poets of the fifth and sixth centuries, notably Pindar, attempted the reformation of Greek religion. They elevated its ideals, but they were more artists than religionists. They failed to develop a technique for fostering and conserving supreme values. (1079.3) 98:2.6 Xenophanes taught one God, but his deity concept was too pantheistic to be a personal Father to mortal man. Anaxagoras was a mechanist except that he did recognize a First Cause, an Initial Mind. Socrates and his successors, Plato and Aristotle, taught that virtue is knowledge; goodness, health of the soul; that it is better to suffer injustice than to be guilty of it, that it is wrong to return evil for evil, and that the gods are wise and good. Their cardinal virtues were: wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice. (1079.4) 98:2.7 The evolution of religious philosophy among the Hellenic and Hebrew peoples affords a contrastive illustration of the function of the church as an institution in the shaping of cultural progress. In Palestine, human thought was so priest-controlled and scripture-directed that philosophy and aesthetics were entirely submerged in religion and morality. In Greece, the almost complete absence of priests and “sacred scriptures” left the human mind free and unfettered, resulting in a startling development in depth of thought. But religion as a personal experience failed to keep pace with the intellectual probings into the nature and reality of the cosmos. (1079.5) 98:2.8 In Greece, believing was subordinated to thinking; in Palestine, thinking was held subject to believing. Much of the strength of Christianity is due to its having borrowed heavily from both Hebrew morality and Greek thought. (1079.6) 98:2.9 In Palestine, religious dogma became so crystallized as to jeopardize further growth; in Greece, human thought became so abstract that the concept of God resolved itself into a misty vapor of pantheistic speculation not at all unlike the impersonal Infinity of the Brahman philosophers. (1079.7) 98:2.10 But the average men of these times could not grasp, nor were they much interested in, the Greek philosophy of self-realization and an abstract Deity; they rather craved promises of salvation, coupled with a personal God who could hear their prayers. They exiled the philosophers, persecuted the remnants of the Salem cult, both doctrines having become much blended, and made ready for that terrible orgiastic plunge into the follies of the mystery cults which were then overspreading the Mediterranean lands. The Eleusinian mysteries grew up within the Olympian pantheon, a Greek version of the worship of fertility; Dionysus nature worship flourished; the best of the cults was the Orphic brotherhood, whose moral preachments and promises of salvation made a great appeal to many. (1080.1) 98:2.11 All Greece became involved in these new methods of attaining salvation, these emotional and fiery ceremonials. No nation ever attained such heights of artistic philosophy in so short a time; none ever created such an advanced system of ethics practically without Deity and entirely devoid of the promise of human salvation; no nation ever plunged so quickly, deeply, and violently into such depths of intellectual stagnation, moral depravity, and spiritual poverty as these same Greek peoples when they flung themselves into the mad whirl of the mystery cults. (1080.2) 98:2.12 Religions have long endured without philosophical support, but few philosophies, as such, have long persisted without some identification with religion. Philosophy is to religion as conception is to action. But the ideal human estate is that in which philosophy, religion, and science are welded into a meaningful unity by the conjoined action of wisdom, faith, and experience. 3. The Melchizedek Teachings in Rome (1080.3) 98:3.1 Having grown out of the earlier religious forms of worship of the family gods into the tribal reverence for Mars, the god of war, it was natural that the later religion of the Latins was more of a political observance than were the intellectual systems of the Greeks and Brahmans or the more spiritual religions of several other peoples. (1080.4) 98:3.2 In the great monotheistic renaissance of Melchizedek’s gospel during the sixth century before Christ, too few of the Salem missionaries penetrated Italy, and those who did were unable to overcome the influence of the rapidly spreading Etruscan priesthood with its new galaxy of gods and temples, all of which became organized into the Roman state religion. This religion of the Latin tribes was not trivial and venal like that of the Greeks, neither was it austere and tyrannical like that of the Hebrews; it consisted for the most part in the observance of mere forms, vows, and taboos. (1080.5) 98:3.3 Roman religion was greatly influenced by extensive cultural importations from Greece. Eventually most of the Olympian gods were transplanted and incorporated into the Latin pantheon. The Greeks long worshiped the fire of the family hearth — Hestia was the virgin goddess of the hearth; Vesta was the Roman goddess of the home. Zeus became Jupiter; Aphrodite, Venus; and so on down through the many Olympian deities. (1080.6) 98:3.4 The religious initiation of Roman youths was the occasion of their solemn consecration to the service of the state. Oaths and admissions to citizenship were in reality religious ceremonies. The Latin peoples maintained temples, altars, and shrines and, in a crisis, would consult the oracles. They preserved the bones of heroes and later on those of the Christian saints. (1080.7) 98:3.5 This formal and unemotional form of pseudoreligious patriotism was doomed to collapse, even as the highly intellectual and artistic worship of the Greeks had gone down before the fervid and deeply emotional worship of the mystery cults. The greatest of these devastating cults was the mystery religion of the Mother of God sect, which had its headquarters, in those days, on the exact site of the present church of St. Peter’s in Rome. (1080.8) 98:3.6 The emerging Roman state conquered politically but was in turn conquered by the cults, rituals, mysteries, and god concepts of Egypt, Greece, and the Levant. These imported cults continued to flourish throughout the Roman state up to the time of Augustus, who, purely for political and civic reasons, made a heroic and somewhat successful effort to destroy the mysteries and revive the older political religion. (1081.1) 98:3.7 One of the priests of the state religion told Augustus of the earlier attempts of the Salem teachers to spread the doctrine of one God, a final Deity presiding over all supernatural beings; and this idea took such a firm hold on the emperor that he built many temples, stocked them well with beautiful images, reorganized the state priesthood, re-established the state religion, appointed himself acting high priest of all, and as emperor did not hesitate to proclaim himself the supreme god. (1081.2) 98:3.8 This new religion of Augustus worship flourished and was observed throughout the empire during his lifetime except in Palestine, the home of the Jews. And this era of the human gods continued until the official Roman cult had a roster of more than twoscore self-elevated human deities, all claiming miraculous births and other superhuman attributes. (1081.3) 98:3.9 The last stand of the dwindling band of Salem believers was made by an earnest group of preachers, the Cynics, who exhorted the Romans to abandon their wild and senseless religious rituals and return to a form of worship embodying Melchizedek’s gospel as it had been modified and contaminated through contact with the philosophy of the Greeks. But the people at large rejected the Cynics; they preferred to plunge into the rituals of the mysteries, which not only offered hopes of personal salvation but also gratified the desire for diversion, excitement, and entertainment. 4. The Mystery Cults (1081.4) 98:4.1 The majority of people in the Greco-Roman world, having lost their primitive family and state religions and being unable or unwilling to grasp the meaning of Greek philosophy, turned their attention to the spectacular and emotional mystery cults from Egypt and the Levant. The common people craved promises of salvation — religious consolation for today and assurances of hope for immortality after death.* (1081.5) 98:4.2 The three mystery cults which became most popular were: (1081.6) 98:4.3 1. The Phrygian cult of Cybele and her son Attis. (1081.7) 98:4.4 2. The Egyptian cult of Osiris and his mother Isis. (1081.8) 98:4.5 3. The Iranian cult of the worship of Mithras as the savior and redeemer of sinful mankind. (1081.9) 98:4.6 The Phrygian and Egyptian mysteries taught that the divine son (respectively Attis and Osiris) had experienced death and had been resurrected by divine power, and further that all who were properly initiated into the mystery, and who reverently celebrated the anniversary of the god’s death and resurrection, would thereby become partakers of his divine nature and his immortality. (1081.10) 98:4.7 The Phrygian ceremonies were imposing but degrading; their bloody festivals indicate how degraded and primitive these Levantine mysteries became. The most holy day was Black Friday, the “day of blood,” commemorating the self-inflicted death of Attis. After three days of the celebration of the sacrifice and death of Attis the festival was turned to joy in honor of his resurrection. (1082.1) 98:4.8 The rituals of the worship of Isis and Osiris were more refined and impressive than were those of the Phrygian cult. This Egyptian ritual was built around the legend of the Nile god of old, a god who died and was resurrected, which concept was derived from the observation of the annually recurring stoppage of vegetation growth followed by the springtime restoration of all living plants. The frenzy of the observance of these mystery cults and the orgies of their ceremonials, which were supposed to lead up to the “enthusiasm” of the realization of divinity, were sometimes most revolting. 5. The Cult of Mithras (1082.2) 98:5.1 The Phrygian and Egyptian mysteries eventually gave way before the greatest of all the mystery cults, the worship of Mithras. The Mithraic cult made its appeal to a wide range of human nature and gradually supplanted both of its predecessors. Mithraism spread over the Roman Empire through the propagandizing of Roman legions recruited in the Levant, where this religion was the vogue, for they carried this belief wherever they went. And this new religious ritual was a great improvement over the earlier mystery cults. (1082.3) 98:5.2 The cult of Mithras arose in Iran and long persisted in its homeland despite the militant opposition of the followers of Zoroaster. But by the time Mithraism reached Rome, it had become greatly improved by the absorption of many of Zoroaster’s teachings. It was chiefly through the Mithraic cult that Zoroaster’s religion exerted an influence upon later appearing Christianity. (1082.4) 98:5.3 The Mithraic cult portrayed a militant god taking origin in a great rock, engaging in valiant exploits, and causing water to gush forth from a rock struck with his arrows. There was a flood from which one man escaped in a specially built boat and a last supper which Mithras celebrated with the sun-god before he ascended into the heavens. This sun-god, or Sol Invictus, was a degeneration of the Ahura-Mazda deity concept of Zoroastrianism. Mithras was conceived as the surviving champion of the sun-god in his struggle with the god of darkness. And in recognition of his slaying the mythical sacred bull, Mithras was made immortal, being exalted to the station of intercessor for the human race among the gods on high. (1082.5) 98:5.4 The adherents of this cult worshiped in caves and other secret places, chanting hymns, mumbling magic, eating the flesh of the sacrificial animals, and drinking the blood. Three times a day they worshiped, with special weekly ceremonials on the day of the sun-god and with the most elaborate observance of all on the annual festival of Mithras, December twenty-fifth. It was believed that the partaking of the sacrament ensured eternal life, the immediate passing, after death, to the bosom of Mithras, there to tarry in bliss until the judgment day. On the judgment day the Mithraic keys of heaven would unlock the gates of Paradise for the reception of the faithful; whereupon all the unbaptized of the living and the dead would be annihilated upon the return of Mithras to earth. It was taught that, when a man died, he went before Mithras for judgment, and that at the end of the world Mithras would summon all the dead from their graves to face the last judgment. The wicked would be destroyed by fire, and the righteous would reign with Mithras forever. (1082.6) 98:5.5 At first it was a religion only for men, and there were seven different orders into which believers could be successively initiated. Later on, the wives and daughters of believers were admitted to the temples of the Great Mother, which adjoined the Mithraic temples. The women’s cult was a mixture of Mithraic ritual and the ceremonies of the Phrygian cult of Cybele, the mother of Attis. 6. Mithraism and Christianity (1083.1) 98:6.1 Prior to the coming of the mystery cults and Christianity, personal religion hardly developed as an independent institution in the civilized lands of North Africa and Europe; it was more of a family, city-state, political, and imperial affair. The Hellenic Greeks never evolved a centralized worship system; the ritual was local; they had no priesthood and no “sacred book.” Much as the Romans, their religious institutions lacked a powerful driving agency for the preservation of higher moral and spiritual values. While it is true that the institutionalization of religion has usually detracted from its spiritual quality, it is also a fact that no religion has thus far succeeded in surviving without the aid of institutional organization of some degree, greater or lesser. (1083.2) 98:6.2 Occidental religion thus languished until the days of the Skeptics, Cynics, Epicureans, and Stoics, but most important of all, until the times of the great contest between Mithraism and Paul’s new religion of Christianity. (1083.3) 98:6.3 During the third century after Christ, Mithraic and Christian churches were very similar both in appearance and in the character of their ritual. A majority of such places of worship were underground, and both contained altars whose backgrounds variously depicted the sufferings of the savior who had brought salvation to a sin-cursed human race. (1083.4) 98:6.4 Always had it been the practice of Mithraic worshipers, on entering the temple, to dip their fingers in holy water. And since in some districts there were those who at one time belonged to both religions, they introduced this custom into the majority of the Christian churches in the vicinity of Rome. Both religions employed baptism and partook of the sacrament of bread and wine. The one great difference between Mithraism and Christianity, aside from the characters of Mithras and Jesus, was that the one encouraged militarism while the other was ultrapacific. Mithraism’s tolerance for other religions (except later Christianity) led to its final undoing. But the deciding factor in the struggle between the two was the admission of women into the full fellowship of the Christian faith. (1083.5) 98:6.5 In the end the nominal Christian faith dominated the Occident. Greek philosophy supplied the concepts of ethical value; Mithraism, the ritual of worship observance; and Christianity, as such, the technique for the conservation of moral and social values. 7. The Christian Religion (1083.6) 98:7.1 A Creator Son did not incarnate in the likeness of mortal flesh and bestow himself upon the humanity of Urantia to reconcile an angry God but rather to win all mankind to the recognition of the Father’s love and to the realization of their sonship with God. After all, even the great advocate of the atonement doctrine realized something of this truth, for he declared that “God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself.” (1084.1) 98:7.2 It is not the province of this paper to deal with the origin and dissemination of the Christian religion. Suffice it to say that it is built around the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the humanly incarnate Michael Son of Nebadon, known to Urantia as the Christ, the anointed one. Christianity was spread throughout the Levant and Occident by the followers of this Galilean, and their missionary zeal equaled that of their illustrious predecessors, the Sethites and Salemites, as well as that of their earnest Asiatic contemporaries, the Buddhist teachers. (1084.2) 98:7.3 The Christian religion, as a Urantian system of belief, arose through the compounding of the following teachings, influences, beliefs, cults, and personal individual attitudes: (1084.3) 98:7.4 1. The Melchizedek teachings, which are a basic factor in all the religions of Occident and Orient that have arisen in the last four thousand years. (1084.4) 98:7.5 2. The Hebraic system of morality, ethics, theology, and belief in both Providence and the supreme Yahweh. (1084.5) 98:7.6 3. The Zoroastrian conception of the struggle between cosmic good and evil, which had already left its imprint on both Judaism and Mithraism. Through prolonged contact attendant upon the struggles between Mithraism and Christianity, the doctrines of the Iranian prophet became a potent factor in determining the theologic and philosophic cast and structure of the dogmas, tenets, and cosmology of the Hellenized and Latinized versions of the teachings of Jesus. (1084.6) 98:7.7 4. The mystery cults, especially Mithraism but also the worship of the Great Mother in the Phrygian cult. Even the legends of the birth of Jesus on Urantia became tainted with the Roman version of the miraculous birth of the Iranian savior-hero, Mithras, whose advent on earth was supposed to have been witnessed by only a handful of gift-bearing shepherds who had been informed of this impending event by angels. (1084.7) 98:7.8 5. The historic fact of the human life of Joshua ben Joseph, the reality of Jesus of Nazareth as the glorified Christ, the Son of God. (1084.8) 98:7.9 6. The personal viewpoint of Paul of Tarsus. And it should be recorded that Mithraism was the dominant religion of Tarsus during his adolescence. Paul little dreamed that his well-intentioned letters to his converts would someday be regarded by still later Christians as the “word of God.” Such well-meaning teachers must not be held accountable for the use made of their writings by later-day successors. (1084.9) 98:7.10 7. The philosophic thought of the Hellenistic peoples, from Alexandria and Antioch through Greece to Syracuse and Rome. The philosophy of the Greeks was more in harmony with Paul’s version of Christianity than with any other current religious system and became an important factor in the success of Christianity in the Occident. Greek philosophy, coupled with Paul’s theology, still forms the basis of European ethics. (1084.10) 98:7.11 As the original teachings of Jesus penetrated the Occident, they became Occidentalized, and as they became Occidentalized, they began to lose their potentially universal appeal to all races and kinds of men. Christianity, today, has become a religion well adapted to the social, economic, and political mores of the white races. It has long since ceased to be the religion of Jesus, although it still valiantly portrays a beautiful religion about Jesus to such individuals as sincerely seek to follow in the way of its teaching. It has glorified Jesus as the Christ, the Messianic anointed one from God, but has largely forgotten the Master’s personal gospel: the Fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of all men. (1085.1) 98:7.12 And this is the long story of the teachings of Machiventa Melchizedek on Urantia. It is nearly four thousand years since this emergency Son of Nebadon bestowed himself on Urantia, and in that time the teachings of the “priest of El Elyon, the Most High God,” have penetrated to all races and peoples. And Machiventa was successful in achieving the purpose of his unusual bestowal; when Michael made ready to appear on Urantia, the God concept was existent in the hearts of men and women, the same God concept that still flames anew in the living spiritual experience of the manifold children of the Universal Father as they live their intriguing temporal lives on the whirling planets of space. (1085.2) 98:7.13 [Presented by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]

The Ave Maria Hour Radio Show
Elias the Prophet – Elijah

The Ave Maria Hour Radio Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2013 29:00


Rebroadcast of the long running radio program, "The Ave Maria Hour", a presentation of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement. www.AtonementFriars.org Elias the Proophet - Elias is the Latinized word for the name Elijah, a famous prophet and wonder-worker in the northern kingdom of Israel.

The Good Catholic Life
The Good Catholic Life #0085: Wednesday, July 6, 2011

The Good Catholic Life

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2011 56:30


**Today's host(s):** Scot Landry and Fr. Matt Williams **Today's guest(s):** Gabriel Delmonaco, National Director and Vice President for Development of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association in the United States * [Catholic Near East Welfare Association](http://www.cnewa.org) * [CNEWA on Twitter](http://www.twitter/CNEWA) * [CNEWA on Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/CNEWA1926) * [Gabriel Delmonaco's blog](http://gabedelmonaco.wordpress.com/) * [Gabriel Delmonaco on Twitter](http://www.twitter,com/GabeDelmonaco) **Today's topics:** The Catholic Near East Welfare Association **Summary of today's show:** Gabriel Delmonaco talks with Scot and Fr. Matt about the work that the Catholic Near East Welfare Association does with Eastern-rite Catholics in North Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia, helping match sponsors who want to help with important projects for small Christian communities that are often in the minority and under pressure in their own countries. CNEWA helps fund healthcare for refugee mothers in Jordan, formation for seminarians in Egypt, schooling for deaf children in Bethlehem, and more, all under the mandate of Pope Benedict XVI. **1st segment:** Scot welcomed Fr. Matt back to the show and asked him how his holiday weekend was. He spent time at a couple of different family parties and caught up with his family. Scot went to a bunch of cookouts on Friday and Saturday and then took his kids to the Boston fireworks on the Cambridge side of the Charles River. Yesterday, Fr. Matt was on CatholicTV's This is the Day program to promote  the upcoming Witness to Truth high school leadership program next week. It's not too late for teens from all over the archdiocese to sign up, meet kids from all over, grow deeper in faith, and learn leadership skills that come from the book "Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers," by Sean Covey. It's coupled with the theological and cardinal virtues. Find out more at [the ONE website](http://www.one4boston.org) or their [Facebook page](http://www.facebook.com/one4boston) **2nd segment:** Scot welcomed Gabriel Delmonaco to the show. He was born in Italy and he worked in the Vatican at the Congregation for the Eastern Churches. They take care of all the Catholic Eastern Churches around the world. In 1999, he came to Boston for a conference organized by Congregation for all the Eastern Churches in the English-speaking world. He met people from the Catholic Near East Welfare Association and was taken with their mission. He told his wife that he wanted to move to New York and work for CNEWA.  Scot asked him about the Eastern Churches. Gabriel said there are the Byzantine, Syrian, Coptic, Armenian, Ethiopian/Eritrean and Syro-Malankara. Some of these churches are directly linked to the apostles. Over the centuries there were many divisions in the Church, often over politics. The main division was between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. But over time many of these churches reunited with Rome. They are located primarily in the Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe. Scot said the Western Church has three or four rites, including the Latin-rite, the Ambrosian-rite (in Milan). What's different in these Eastern churches is the form of the Liturgy, but the commonalities are greater. When we talk about rite that's mainly about how we celebrate liturgy and pray. In the Latin-rite we have the Latin liturgy in both the ordinary (Novus Ordo) and extraordinary (Tridentine) forms.  Gabriel said the Catholic Eastern-rites include anywhere that there are Catholic Eastern rite churches, such as in India (Syro-Malabar) or in Ethiopia (Geze). Scot said there is a Geze rite liturgy every Saturday in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Scot said in the Eastern churches, there is one particular congregation that serves the needs similar to the different congregations for the rest of the Church such as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Congregation for the Bishops, etc. In the past, there were departments within each of the other congregations to care for Eastern Churches, but in 1926 all those functions were consolidated into one new congregation. One of the reasons was to give more attention to the churches as  they are. The churches felt they were being too Latinized, so a new congregation was created to help them maintain their traditions. **3rd segment:** CNEWA puts together people who want to help with people who are need. Sometimes the needs of Christians in those countries is overwhelming. "It's better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness." They light candles every day, saving one life at a time.  Not just those overseas, but also benefactors back in the US. In the Holy Land, Christians are a minority, less than 2%. In Iraq, there were 1 million Christians in 2003. Now, they're less than half that. Christians are fighting to maintain their foothold in their own countries. CNEWA helps them to thrive in their countries. In the West Bank, instead of giving money to families or just reparing churches, instead they put people to work repairing local churches. Sometimes their help comes as medical care. For some people, it's the only health care they get. In a town north of Amman, they provide a clinic for mothers and children and there is no other way for them to get medical care. They serve all faiths, not just Christian. When the clinic was created, before the Dominican Sisters of Catherine of Siena would visit patients, the husbands would accompany their wives and would be the only ones talking to the doctors. When the sisters came to the hospital, this changed the culture and suddenly women could go to the hospitals themselves and talk to the sisters. One of CNEWA's missions is to foster interreligious dialogue. They try to promote the many areas in common among the religions. In October 2007, a group of 100 representatives of Islam presented a document to Pope Benedict explaining all the commonalities between Islam and Christianity. In most of the countries where  they work, the Catholic Church is not a "Church of numbers" but a "Church of service". The Catholic community provides so many schools, hospitals, and more that vastly outweighs their proportion of the population. In Jordan, they are serving more than 500,000 Iraqi refugees and 1.9 million Palestinian refugees. They help not just individuals, but also the dioceses. They help form seminarians and sponsor religious novices and postulants. The sponsorship program connects people who want to help with people in need. They sponsor children, religious in formation, and seminarians. They allow correspondence between donors and the sponsored individual. Very strong bonds are formed between them, up to the point where the sponsors see them as their own children, even seminarians as their sons. They work through, with, and for the local Churches as a sign of respect for the people who live there. Twice per year in Rome, there's a meeting of all the agencies working for assistance to Christians in the Near East. They often meet with Pope Benedict. At a recent meeting, he asked Catholics to help those who wish to stay in their home countries above all, but even for those who don't to render all possible assistance. CNEWA's website has specific opportunities with dollar amounts to support individual projects such as a church in Iraq or a rectory in Damascus. American dollars go much further in these countries. A church in Iraq can rebuilt in Iraq for just $15,000. A rectory could be built for $30,000. A hungry family could fed for $2000 a month.  **4th segments:** It's time to announce the winner of the weekly **WQOM Benefactor Raffle**. Our prize this week is a Book Pack (3 books): [Made for More](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1934217492/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pilo0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=1934217492) by Curtis Martin; [Spiritual Freedom](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0867168609/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pilo0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0867168609) by Fr. Dave Pivonka and [Hiking the Camino](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/086716882X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pilo0e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=086716882X), also by Fr. Dave Pivonka    This week's winner is **Robert Romig from Winthrop**. Congratulations Robert! If you would like to be eligible to win in an upcoming week, please visit [WQOM.org](http://www.WQOM.org). For a one-time $30 donation, you'll receive the Station of the Cross benefactor card and key tag, making you eligible for WQOM's weekly raffle of books, DVDs, CDs and religious items. We'll be announcing the winner each Wednesday during “The Good Catholic Life” program. **5th segment:** Every year, through the local bishops they receive thousands of projects and they narrow it down to 200 or. In Bethlehem, the Congregation of the sisters of St. Dorothy have a community for the deaf and mute called Ephatha. Because of interfamily marriage there are many genetic problems that result in deafness. This provides societal shame and the kids aren't sent to schools. The Sisters go from home to home to teach the children, including teaching them how to speak Arabic using some high-tech computer programs. They also teach the kids to lip read. They show them how to make their way around in the city, including crossing streets. The Sisters' devotion is unique. CNEWA supports about 100 of the children each year. At an AIDS clinic in India, Gabriel met a religious sister who carried an HIV-infected man on her back to bathe him each day. Gabriel said the India director of CNEWA proposed $ 2 million worth of projects but they were only able to fund $700,000. They also make ongoing commitments to schools and clinics and hospitals. There is $13 million given directly by donors, another $6 million in wills and bequests, and another $4 million in endowments, so about $25 million total. Scot said it's often difficult to make sense of all the different collections they are asked to support. CNEWA is partly helped by the World Mission Sunday collection during October, but it helps primarily Propagation of the Faith, which takes care of mostly Latin-rite areas. 81% goes to Propaganda of the Faith and 19% goes to the Congregation for the Eastern Churches in Rome. CNEWA funds come directly from donors. Right now, there are bout 50,000 regular donors. The typical donor is a woman on Social Security who is giving from her want to help a Christian in India or the Middle East or North Africa. Their oldest donor is 98 and she has been giving since 1926.  Their donors are often invited to travel with Gabriel overseas to visit with those they are helping. Gabriel said his work has affected his faith life. He often thinks of the Scripture: "Whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do it for me." He believes all of their donors receive a gift when they support CNEWA recipients. Scot said we often mistake needs and wants in the United States. there are a lot of projects that CNEWA supports that are for true needs of food, shelter, healthcare, and worship. Gabriel is able to tell his son how life is not as easy for everyone as it is for those of us who live in the developed world. With all the upheaval in the Middle East recently, it is becoming more difficult for those CNEWA serves. Food prices are rocketing upward around the world and projects and families are finding it harder to feed the hungry, for example.

Two Journeys Sermons
Offering Work as Worship to Christ (Colossians Sermon 18 of 21) (Audio)

Two Journeys Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2008


The Importance of Work in the Life of Humans Chuck Colson began his book, "Why America doesn't work", began with what he called a true parable about the significance of work. It's a true story, but it showed just how important work is in the life of a human being. The story, the true story set in World War II at a Nazi concentration camp in Hungary and these prisoners, the ones that were physically able, were compelled to work for the Nazis. There was a camp factory that distilled hundreds of tons of human waste and garbage and made alcohol as a fuel additive for Nazi vehicles. It was disgusting work, you can hardly imagine the stench, it would cause people to wretch on a daily basis, but far worse for these enslaved workers was that just the idea that their work was being used to fuel the Nazi war machine that they hated viscerally. But yet they were compelled to do this work day after day. Well, one night, in 1944, an Allied air strike took out the factory, bombed it to rubble. Well, you can imagine if you're one of those laborers, how secretly happy you were about the destruction of that factory. That is until the sadistic guards gathered the laborers together and they were brought to the compound and compelled to move a pile of rubble from one side of the compound to the other. They spent the whole day in this back breaking labor and their hearts sank as they realized, so they thought, that the Nazis were going to make them rebuild the factory. But the next day, the guards made them move that same pile of rubble back to the original starting place. And on the third day, they moved it back to where it'd been the day before. And this went on back and forth, back and forth, this pile of rubble, for seemingly nothing. Wasn't long before some of the prisoners began to fall out. They wouldn't work, they'd be kicked, they'd be beaten, they'd be put in solitary confinement, they'd be tortured, but they wouldn't work. Some of them even chose suicide by running at the electrified barbed wire that surrounded the camp compound. They would rather do that than continue to do mindless, meaningless labor. And that's really odd, isn't it? That they would rather do something productive for the evil Nazi war machine, than do something that clearly was meaningless. And the point that Colson drew from this parable is that we must have meaningful labor to do. It's essential to who we are as human beings, we were made to work. And if we don't work at something that we think is worthwhile, we'll go stark raving mad. Now that's a bit negative. That's the way Colson chose to begin his book. Let's turn it around and make it positive. Isn't it one of the greatest graces of the Gospel, that the Lord Jesus Christ has given us eternally meaningful work to do? That your labor, the labor of your hands, the labor of your minds, of your mouth can actually count for eternity. You can build something that will last for all eternity. Isn't that one of the greatest graces that Jesus Christ has ever given us? I think it is. Now the context of our passage today may on the surface, it seems, say nothing to us at all in 21st century America. You may read it and say, "Masters and slaves. Well, what does that have to do with us?" Ever since the 13th Amendment of the Constitution was passed in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States, you may think that that passage ceased having any relevance whatsoever to our lives. Well, that is not the case. The center of the command has to do with how you work. With what demeanor, what heart attitude do you do your work? And how do you treat those that are entrusted to your care, who are working for you? That's the center of the passage. Now, the structure of the master-slave relationship is so rich and so poignant and in some cases so painful a topic, that I think it deserves a whole separate treatment, which God willing, I'll give next week. The question of why is it the New Testament doesn't clearly overturn slavery? I want to talk about it next week, it's a poignant question. So, if I could just ask you to set those questions aside and this morning, let's just zero in on the question of work, "How are we to work?" And I think what I want us to do, is to just try to understand work historically, but even better than that, Biblically. Understanding Work Biblically Greek’s Faulty View: Work is Punishment Now, the Greeks, the Ancient Greeks, had a faulty view of work, they thought that the gods were punishing them. Here the gods just lounged around on divine couches, eating ambrosia and drinking nectar all day long while we are consigned to work down here below. And that's the way that they thought. As a matter of fact, Plato and Aristotle thought, even within the work, there was the aristocratic kind of work that was done by educated people and then there was the common labor as well. And so, the common laborer fueled the society that enabled higher people like them to do intellectual labor, that kind of thing. Plato and Aristotle. Well, even within church history, there have been faulty views of work. This kind of two tiered view came in and gripped the church for many centuries. In medieval Catholicism, there is this idea of a separation of sacred and profane work. Profane not being immoral, but secular. Common, not directly having to do with the Gospel of Christ. And so, the sacred laborers were the pope, and the cardinals, and the bishops, and archbishops, and the priests, and the nuns, and the monks. They were of a higher order of piety than those that were farmers, or tradesmen, or even magistrates who do work in secular labor. And Eusebius said, "To them is issued a kind of lower grade piety." So, you could find yourself on the hierarchy of holiness, if you weren't a priest or something like that, you were low and your work was of little value. Well, the Reformation changed all that. Martin Luther among others, saw in the scriptures what he called the priesthood of all believers. And the idea is that all believers can offer up by their labors, by what they do in their everyday lives, priestly sacrifices to God. It's taught in 1 Peter 2 and Ephesians 2. He saw it there and he brought it forth and he applied it in this way. He said, "When a maid cooks and cleans and does other house work, because God's command is there, even such a small work must be praised as a service of God, far surpassing the holiness and the asceticism of all monks and nuns." Well, that was revolutionary talk. The idea that a maid's labor in the kitchen could be of equal holiness and value to a pope. He said it actually is better, because he saw them as false teachers and so, just the labor of a maid or a servant in a house could be holy, that was revolutionary. And again Luther said, seemingly secular works are a worship of God and an obedience well pleasing to God. There is no such thing as secular labor therefore. The question is do you as a Christian offer up to God, to Christ, your work as a fragrant offering? That's the real issue. The full fruition of this Protestant insight came in what later came to be known as the Puritan work ethic. Many people have that phrase in their minds, but they don't know what they're talking about. At the core of it was, the Puritans thought that their labors could be offered up to God as worship. And therefore they sought to glorify God in everything they did, no matter how little or how great. William Tyndale said, "If we look externally, there is a difference betwixt washing of dishes and preaching the word of God, but as touching to please God none at all." So, it's equal to wash dishes and preach the word? Well, what Luther said is if the command of God is there, yes. You can never do better than what God's commanding you to do at that present moment, do you see? And so, I believe that God has commanded me to preach this sermon, therefore I can't do any better than this. And God has commanded you to listen. And you can't do any better than to listen to the glory of God. But this is the way it is, you can go home and whatever it is you find to do, if the command of God is there and the Spirit of God is there, you can glorify God with it at any time. That's revolutionary. But there's a detail and a concept here. Yes, lower levels of everyday kind of life can be consecrated, but we should also have an overall sense of calling before God. And the general direction of our lives should maximally advance the kingdom of Jesus Christ, according to whatever gifting God gives you. Look at Romans 12 for a fuller treatment of that, but whatever you're called to be in the Body of Christ, be it maximally to the glory of God so that the kingdom of Christ gets advanced. And so, the Puritans had the concept of a calling, one's calling or vocation which is just the Latinized word of that, vocare. The calling of God. He's calling on you to do something. And so, William Perkins said this, "A vocation or a calling is a certain kind of life, ordained and imposed on man by God for the common good. Every person of every degree, state, sex, or condition without exception must have some personal and particular calling to walk in." We as people of God, as Christians, need to recover that sense of calling. It's not, friends, just a career. And so, may I challenge those of you that are high school students, as you look ahead to what lies in your future, if you're college students, if you look ahead to what God may be calling you to do, have a sense of calling from God. Don't just choose a career. The real issue is what are you going to present to Christ on judgment day? How did you advance the kingdom of Christ? And so, that means, both the little, the minutia, of everyday life, washing dishes, and the overall grand calling of your life, all of it can be done and should be done to the glory of God for the advancement of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. God a Worker, Not an Idler Now the Bible supports these concepts. The Bible actually has much to say about a right doctrine of work. Let me trace it out very quickly. It begins with the first verse of the Bible, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." And so, in Genesis 1, we see God a worker, not an idler, He's doing creative work. He's calling something out of nothing. He is working. He's creating a universe filled with stars and planets. He creating a beautiful planet. He's separating the water from the dry land and He's causing plants to appear and beasts of the earth and birds of the air. He's doing all of this labor, the culmination on the sixth day, the creation of man. "And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it, He rested from all the creative work that He'd been doing." You see, God is an active, creative laborer. And doesn't God enjoy His work? Doesn't He delight in it? Doesn't He look over all that He's made and said, behold it's very good. There's a sense of deep satisfaction in the labor of God. That's the first indication we get of a Biblical view of work. And then Jesus told us in John 5:17, He's still working. As a matter of fact, He works all the time. My Father is always at His work to this very day. "And I too am working," said Jesus. Well, God then intended to give that good gift to the human race in Eden. He gave them creative work to do. In Genesis 1:28, it said that God blessed them, male and female, created in the image of God. “He blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves on the ground.’" There was a whole world to be explored. There were gardens to be planted and harvests to be brought forth. There were all kinds of creative things to be done and that was just given to us as the human race to do. Work in Eden: The Gift Given And so, my friends, work is no punishment from God. It is a good gift of God. And Adam, even when he was alone before Eve was created, he was put in the garden it says, “to work it and to take care of it.” There was a work there and he was to till the ground. And all the animals are brought for him to name and so you have physical labor and intellectual labor. Both of them there in the garden, from the very beginning. Work then, is a good gift from God. But after the fall work itself became cursed. God cursed Adam specifically in the area of his work, his labor. It's what it says in Genesis 3:17 and following, to Adam He said, "Cursed is the ground because of you. Through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return." What is He doing? He's cursing work there. He's cursing his labor. I think the greatest curse then on work is its emptiness. Its futility. The fact that you wrestle with the dust and the dust wins. The stuff you make turns back into dust and nothing comes of it. It says in Ecclesiastes 2, "What does man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun? All his days, his work, his pain and grief. Even at night his mind does not rest, this too is meaningless." So, that's the curse really, it's a sense of meaninglessness attached to our work. That our work will amount to nothing. That is the curse. Well, work was carried on after the fall, Noah made an ark to save his family. Labor continued on, in some ways blessed by God, in some ways an experience of the curse. We see the greatest example of that with the Israelite's experience in Egypt, after Joseph had died and the Egyptians forced them into bitter bondage and servitude. It says in Exodus 1:14, "They made their lives bitter with hard labor and brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly." So, there you have the bitterness of work in bondage in slavery done there in Exodus 1. Christ’s Example Glorifying the Father by Labor Well, after the exodus, God regulated work at the Mount Sinai and the Ten Commandments, and the fourth commandment, the Sabbath day commandment, He said this, "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord, on it you shall not do any work." Now let's read it fairly. Here work is both commanded, "Six days you shall labor." And it is also regulated, "The seventh day is holy to the Lord, on it you shall not do any work," and so, we have a balanced treatment then of what work is like in the Fall. Now in the New Testament, Jesus gives us a beautiful example of work, doesn't He? Jesus came as the Father's servant. I'm going to talk much about that next week. Very important in my understanding about slavery is Jesus' response to it. But Jesus came and He said, "My Father is always at His work to this very day and I too am working." And He said, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and finish His work." It was like eating for Him, it was like a delicious meal to do the will of His Father, to labor for His Father. And the greatest glory, I believe that God has ever gotten from a human being on earth, is the finished body of work that Jesus presented to Him finished at the cross. And He says in John 17:4, "Father, I brought you glory on earth by completing the work You gave me to do." That is the greatest glory God the Father ever received from a human being on earth. The finished body of work that Jesus hands to Him. Perfection itself, and friends, this is the Gospel. In that perfection we stand. That perfect work of Jesus, He shed His blood on the cross. He died on the cross that we might have eternal life. And we are sinners. We heard it four times today. The testimony of we are sinners. We can be freed from our sin by stepping into that finished body of work that Jesus gave us, where He shed His blood on the cross. Come to Christ. If you've never trusted Him, maybe you were invited today. I think we had a newspaper ad today about this sermon. Maybe you came because of a newspaper ad. Maybe you came to hear a friend's baptismal testimony. Come to faith in Christ. Worry about how you're going to work by and by, step into Jesus' work now. And trust in Him for the salvation of your soul. Paul’s Example and Commands But Jesus showed us how to work. He showed us that we should be working as unto God. A finished body of work. Paul, the apostle, gave us a beautiful example as well. He was a hard worker. He labored day and night for the cause of the gospel. And he did secular labor. You remember, in Acts 18:3, we learned that he was a tentmaker. He worked with his hands sewing tents. And I believe that if you put it all together, he worked hard late at night to support himself and his traveling companion so that during the day and into the evening he could preach the Gospel. Now that's labor. He was a hard worker. 1 Thessalonians 2:9 says, "Surely you remember brothers, our toil and hardship. We worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to anyone, while we preached the Gospel of God to you." Paul therefore gave consistent commands concerning work in his epistles. Not just here in Colossians 3, which we'll get to in a moment. But in many places he talked about work. He gives us commands about work like this one. 2 Thessalonians 3:7-10 tells us that idleness is a sin and that you need to provide for your own needs and the needs of your family by your own labors. Don't rest on the church, or lean on others, or lean on the state. But he said this, "In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you brothers to keep away from every brother who is idle and does not live according to the teaching you received from us. If a man will not work, neither shall he eat." And so there's a labor there and a connection between eating. But Paul also taught the very thing that we're going to talk about in a moment, Colossians 3, that our work can be, should be, an offering of worship to Christ, that we should be giving up our lives. One final statement in the sweep of work, history of work, what about the New Heaven and the New Earth? Are we going to be like those Greek gods sitting on a divan couch, having angels bringing us grapes? Those poor angels, they're servants. It says right there, they're born to serve us, right? So they're going to be bringing us grapes up in the New Heaven and the New Earth. No, I don't believe so. I think just the curse of work will be removed. And we will have work to do, and we will delight in it like God delighted in Genesis 1. For it says in Revelation 22:3, "No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and His servants will serve Him." It says in another place, "We will reign with Christ." How can you reign and how can you serve without being a servant doing work? And so we'll talk about that more next time. But yes, you have work in your future. Yes, you have work eternally in your future, but it will not be cursed work, it will be a delightful blessing to you. That is the future. Paul’s Commands to Slaves: Serve Christ in Your Work Basic Command: Obey Your Earthly Masters Now, what does Paul command here in Colossians 3? Well, the basic command here is, "Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything." This is comprehensive obedience, similar to wives being told to submit to their husbands in everything, and children being told to obey their parents in everything. We know that this sense of everything isn't absolute above the allegiance we owe to Christ. They can't contradict the commands of God and we have to follow them instead of God; that they cannot do. But in everything else, we must obey; that's what he's teaching here. It does imply God-ordained authority, and submission to it is glorifying to God. Now, it says, "Submit to your earthly masters." The Greek word here is "According to the flesh", literally. Your "according to the flesh" masters. And I think the indication here is that these are your temporary masters. These are the ones who have control over your bodily actions, but they don't own your soul. So there's a limit to their authority. God alone rules over our souls. God alone is King over both soul and body. But these are our earthly masters. It also implies it's temporary. That boss you're thinking of right now won't be your boss forever. Okay? But Jesus will be our master for all eternity. Thus, submission to God-ordained authority is the regular pattern established for God's people. Away then with rebellion. Away with murmuring against your boss, talking about your boss behind his back. Away with all of these kinds of things. Gladly submit to the ordained authority, to the glory of God. Working with Integrity Now, he teaches us here we are to work with integrity. He says, "Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, and do it not only when their eye is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord." He's going for the heart here, isn't he? He's going for what's going on in your heart when you serve this boss, this master. The question is one of integrity of heart. Now, what do I mean by integrity? Well, I think of the word, or the sense of integer, or one. You are one person all the time, no matter who's watching. That is a goal of the Christian life, isn't it? A simplicity of the Christian life. You're going to be the same person all the time. And the issue here in the Greek, the original word, is "eye pleasers." Don't be an eye pleaser. The ESV just brings it right across neatly. And don't be a people pleaser, somebody doing eye service or people pleasing. Eye service is an act, isn't it? It's an act. We are actors. The boss comes in, "Oh, yes, sir. Right away, sir." And as soon as they go out, make a face around the corner. And behind their back we say edgy things about them. You have to do it in a certain way that they don't know, people don't know that you're slandering your boss, but that's what's going on. And why? Because we don't want to submit to authority. We don't like that relationship. He's saying don't do that, be the same person all the time. Be the same person all the time. Years ago, I had computer software, a piece of computer software, a chess game, and you could play chess against the computer, but it had a hotkey that if you hit it, a spreadsheet would come up. Just like that, a fake spreadsheet would come up. It had no software connected to it, it was just a picture of a very busy spreadsheet. And when the boss is coming, you just hit this thing. It actually told you that in the guide. It's like you hit this thing and you're just working, you've got a bunch of papers, and then you hit the hotkey and the chess game comes back. Well, I've heard there's many such things like that. Software programmers are building this kind of stuff in. And it's getting worse. It gets worse around March Madness, when it's actually openly encouraged that you're going to have office interruptions. You can watch the game in a lower window, down in the lower left-hand corner of the screen while you're doing the rest of the work. What is going on? Integrity of heart. Working as unto the Lord, that's what he's calling on us to do here, sincerity. Because if you behave differently in one case than another, you're an actor. And, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." You've gotta be a fake person. And if you really, at heart, are in seething resentment against your boss, it's going to show at some point. Don't do that. Worshiping Christ Through Work Instead, worship Christ through your work. The key to that kind of labor is Christ-focused. Look what it says here, verse 22 through 24, "With sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord"; verse 23, "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord, not for men," verse 24, "Since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward." It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Okay, we get it. Four times in three verses. It's the Lord, it's the Lord, it's the Lord. Focus on Christ in all your work, and everything you do will float up as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Now, we've already seen this in Colossians in 3:17, where it says, "Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him." And you ought to do it with an eye toward Judgment Day. Look ahead to Judgment Day. Look at verse 24, "you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord." It is the Lord you're serving. You're going to get an inheritance. What is that? That is a piece of the New Heaven and New Earth given to you forever. Jesus talked about possessions of your own, it will be yours. Now, next week, I want to talk about how our rewards are based on how much we think like slaves here on Earth now. We'll talk about that next week. It's really a vital understanding. I thought it's hard enough listening to one full sermon on labor and put a sermon on slavery right on top of it. But I think this is the idea. Your reward system is based on how much you serve like Christ did, and you will get an inheritance. And God, it says in Hebrews 6:10, “is not unjust.” “He is not unjust.” He will not forget your labor and the work you have shown Him as you have helped His people and continue to help Him. He will not forget. You may have an unjust master, you may have a tyrannical master who does not give you what is right and fair, but Christ is not like that. He will never forget even a cup of cold water given to serve Him. Paul’s Commands to Masters: Deal Fairly with Slaves Understand Your True Master: Christ Now, there's also a warning, verse 25 "Anyone who does what is wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism." “There's no favoritism, oh slave. He's not going to give you an advantage because you are a slave. He wants to know "Did you obey Me in this? Did you follow Me in this word? Based on that, I will reward you." There's no favoritism. Now, fascinatingly, in Ephesians 6, the phrase "no favoritism" gets directed toward the master. And so in chapter 4, verse one, Paul now turns to the master, and he looks at the master and says "There's no favoritism there either." And someday you're going to have to give an account to Christ for how you treat those entrusted to your care. Look what it says, chapter four, verse one, "Master, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a master in Heaven." So understand your true master. It's easy for the master to lose perspective. You get corrupted by power. You forget that there's somebody above you and He's going to judge how you deal with your position of authority. In 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe published the second edition of her book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and it was a vivid description of the life of a slave and the American South prior to the Civil War, and in that second edition, in the deluxe edition, there were pictures done by artists of certain poignant scenes in her book. And in one of the scenes, the wicked master Simon Legree is beating Uncle Tom savagely, and he is behaving in a very Christ-like manner similar to Stephen, and his behavior is so effective in the lives of those standing around watching, even administering the beating, so the slave that was administering the beating, that they were converted to Christ as a result. But there's a picture, and the picture is of Simon Legree beating Uncle Tom and Jesus watching everything, watching everything. Now we don't need an artist's rendition of that, we have the Scripture, He's watching everything. He's watching everything. And so treat your slaves in a way that is right and fair, it says. Jesus watches everything. Someday you must give Him an account. Understand Your Responsibility: Fair Provision Now, what is your responsibility as a master, it says? Well, fair provision. Fair provision, “provide your slaves with what is right and fair because you know that you also have a Master in Heaven.” In Ephesians 6:9, it says "Masters, treat your slaves in the same way." Well, in the same way as what? How about in the same way as you would want to be treated if it were reversed? How about that? Or even better, in the same way that Christ your master treats you as His slave? How about that? And how good is Christ as a master? Is He not a delightful master? More on that next week. But treat your slaves the same way as Christ is treating you as His slave. Now what is right and fair? I might get a little revolutionary here, but I think it has to do with wages. You say "Well it's not slavery if there's wages." Who told you that? Think about this, Matthew 10:10 says "The worker is worth his keep." Now I don't know necessarily keep has to be in cash money, but at least what is right and fair is a good living arrangement, food, clothing, and shelter, those kind of things that you have come to expect, at least that. His keep, a worker is worth his keep. But how about James 5:4, in which rich oppressors are called out by James for judgment? And he says "Look, the wages you fail to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.” “He will repay if you don't pay those right wages.” James 5:4. Well, at least what is right and fair is sustenance, care for their bodies and for their lives, yes. So away with sweatshops where grossly underpaid Asian workers are doing labor now, and other people are marking up what they do and making great profit on it. Away with that, because it goes on today. What is right and fair? How would you want to be treated if the situation were reversed? And understand your future, someday you will give a full account to Christ. Ephesians 6:9 says "Masters, treat your slaves in the same way, do not threaten them, since you know that He who is both their Master and yours is in Heaven and there's no favoritism with Him." Understand Your Future: A Full Account Alright, what application can we take? We've had a history, a look at history and how different people have seen work. We've seen the Biblical correction that work is a delightful thing, creative and wonderful, but cursed after the Fall. And now Jesus has given us an example of how to work even under the curse, glorifying God. The Apostle Paul made it a command for us, how then shall we work? Well I think we ought to work as priests offering daily sacrifices to please the Lord. Consecrate yourself every day. Remind yourself "This work that I'm doing, no matter what it is, if it is honest labor, not immoral labor, honest labor, this work is my offering to Christ today." And if you can't do it with a clear conscience, then get out of that line of work, do something else. I'm not even talking about immoral things; it may be you feel you've missed your calling, then find it, find it. Johann Sebastian Bach, one of the hardest working composers that ever lived, 1685 was born. In 1985 at a radio station near where I was living at that time, they had the 300th anniversary of his birth, and they celebrated it with 300 consecutive hours of his music and never played a repeat. Wow. At the bottom of every page it said SDG in his own hand, "Soli Deo Gloria," "To the glory of God alone I write this music." He never forgot, he just thought about it all the time. This is for the glory of God. This is for the glory of God, so also you, when you do your labor to the glory of God. Watch out for dangers connected with work. Don't waste your life working on things that don't matter. Ask the question, "Is my life calling advancing the kingdom of Christ as I feel it should? Is it lined up with my gifts? Am I advancing the cause of Christ with the work I spend all my life doing?" Do you want to present this to God on Judgment Day? This will be the majority of how you spend your waking hours. Is this what you're called to do? Ask that question. Because it says in 1 Corinthians 3, that “Judgment Day like a fire will test the quality of everyone's work, and if what you have built remains, you will receive a reward. But if it burns up like wood, hay and stubble, you'll lose it, though you yourself be saved as one escaping through the flames.” Don't let your work be burned up. Danger number two: Avoid careerism. Work as self-worship, 60 hours a week, 70 hours a week, the career, upwardly mobile, right? It's really a form of self-worship. It does not glorify Christ. Well why not? Because your family withers. Last week we talked about parental responsibilities to train and disciple your children. They're wondering where you are, wondering where you are. Can't do what you need to do because work is always getting in the way. Your church work suffers. You're not able to use your spiritual gifts. Church ministries, good church ministries go begging because people are too busy to do them because of careerism. Danger number three is laziness and earthly hedonism. More and more our culture is given over to entertainment and to pleasure. John Piper said this, he said, "I feel such a burden for us as a church to swim against the tide of almost every current in our culture. More and more America is a nation given over to play. The industries of play are huge. Houses are built today with entertainment centers, computers and videos and television and stereo all coordinate to give us ever more stimulating and captivating distractions from the realities of the world. When we need to be dreaming for the glory of Christ about how to spend our lives alleviating ignorance and sickness and misery and lostness, we're becoming more and more addicted to amusement." "And all you married couples and single people, in the prime of your life, beware of being swept into the all-consuming demands of your careers only to find yourself gasping for some fun and entertainment on the weekend, finding your relief from worldly work and worldly fun, and waking perhaps someday to realize you have no taste for the things of God. You have become a connoisseur of restaurants and videos and movies and sports and stocks and computers and 100 transient things, and all the while, your sense of Heaven and Hell has died. Wake up before it's too late. And tremble at these things today and set your mind to think about the biggest issues of life in the universe, eternal life or eternal death." Well I agree with him. Don't waste your life. Work for the glory of God. Final comment, workplace evangelism. The number one way that we as Christians mesh with in a deeper level, the lives of unbelievers these days is the workplace. More than the neighborhood, more than any other place, it's the workplace, or for you students, it's school where you're learning. That's where you rub shoulders with unbelievers. Make it your place of ministry evangelistically. Jesus said, "The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost." Do you have a strategy for reaching your company for Christ? You may say "Oh, I'm not the only Christian there." Well then get together with the other Christians and come up together with a strategy for reaching your workplace for Christ. No one else in this church can reach that place. You are the missionary from this church to that work place. I did a sheet called "Top 10 Ministry Tips for Workplace Evangelism", they're out at the doors. I'm not going to go through it with you now. Take that green sheet and look it over, and make the workplace a place where you see people coming to faith in Christ. I would love to see more and more people baptized in this church. It's my greatest burden here, is to see people converted from lostness, baptized as disciples of Jesus Christ, and then taught to obey everything He's commanded. Oh, how I yearn to see that. Workplace is one of the key ways for us to do it. Close with me if you would in prayer.

The History of the Christian Church
109-Faith in the Age of Reason – Part 1

The History of the Christian Church

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 1970


The title of this episode, is Faith in the Age of Reason.  Part 01After the first flush of Reformation excitement died down, the Protestant churches of Europe went into a long period of retrenchment, of digging in both doctrinally and culturally. This period lasted from the late 16th to the later 17th C and is referred to by church historians as the Age of Confessionalism. But “confession” here isn't the personal practice of piety in which someone admits error. Confessionalism is the term applied to how the various Protestant groups were increasingly concerned with defining their own beliefs, their confessions, in contrast to everyone else. It resulted in what is sometimes referred to as Protestant Scholasticism, called this because the churches developed technical jargon to describe their doctrinal positions ever more accurately—just as medieval Roman Catholic scholastics had done three Cs before.Don't forget; Roman Scholasticism helped spark the Reformation. It was the scholastics devotion to correct theology that highlighted the doctrinal and practical errors many in the Church began to call for reform over. But it was also the tendency of some Scholastics to forsake practical theology in favor of the purely hypothetical that fueled the Reformation's drive to return the practice of faith to everyday life and made religion the sphere, not just of academics and sequestered clerics, but the common people.So, we might conclude Protestant churches were now headed down the same path with their own version of Scholasticism. And in some cases, that's what happened. But instead of turning a theology back to Scripture as the Protestant Reformation had done in reaction to Roman Scholasticism, the reaction to Protestant Scholasticism was a decided turn away from Scripture to a decidedly irreligious philosophy.Many of the discussions of the Protestant Scholastics became dry and technical. Martin Luther sought to overturn centuries of medieval religious jargon and get back to the original message of the NT. John Calvin is often thought of as a more ‘systematic' theologian, but his Institutes of the Christian Religion, though carefully arranged by topics, was intended to be no more than a faithful exposition of Scripture.Luther's and Calvin's heirs, however, went beyond their intended simplicity. They didn't abandon the Reformation principle of Sola Scriptura, but they sought answers to questions not found in the Bible. A prime example was the issue of predestination and the relation between grace and free will—which, at the start of the 17th C was THE hot theological topic among Protestants and Catholics. A new kind of scholasticism was produced with some Protestant theologians happy to use the terminology of Aristotle and regarding the premier Roman Catholic Scholastic Thomas Aquinas as an authority.One of the key figures of this era was Theodore Beza, an aristocratic Frenchman who, although only ten yrs younger than Calvin, outlived him by forty and was widely regarded as Calvin's successor. It was Beza, rather than Calvin, who was regarded by most Reformed theologians of the 17th C as the theological authority. He was especially good at recasting the terminology of Aristotle and the medieval scholastics in disputing with his opponents, who were most often Lutherans and Catholics.Beza defined the doctrine of predestination and its role in Reformed theology. In doing so, he developed the doctrine of ‘double predestination', the notion that God deliberately predestines the reprobate to damnation and the elect to salvation. He put forward the ‘prelapsarian' position, which says God planned the Fall and the division of humanity into elect and reprobate before Adam sinned. These ideas were present in germ-form in Calvin, but weren't the touchstones of Reformation orthodoxy they later become.Beza was an eloquent author. That can't be said of all who took up their pens in the service of the Lutheran and Reformed cause. In place of Luther's and Calvin's attempts to simply expound what Scripture said about doctrine and theology, the Protestant Scholastics were all about logical consistency and adherence to a pre-established orthodoxy.The Age of Confessionalism is often thought of as a time when theologians conducted a war of words with sharp pens, rather than sharp swords. What comes as a surprise is how so much of their angry rhetoric was aimed, not at people far across the theological divide from themselves, but at their own, much closer colleagues.With the hardening of orthodoxy, there were inevitable splits within churches as some rebelled against what their colleagues were laying down as required doctrine. The greatest of these fractures occurred in the Reformed Church at the end of the 16th C, after the preaching of Jacobus Arminius, a Dutch minister and professor taught by Beza himself. Arminius was initially a supporter of Beza's views. But he rebelled against Beza's distinctions regarding predestination and prelapsarianism, declaring them unjust. Arminius argued that if God condemns some and saves others, it must be on the basis of who has faith, not on the basis of some eternal decree God's already worked out even before they're born.Arminius died in 1609, but the controversy he started rumbled on thru the centuries and has continued right on down to today.His Dutch name was Jakob Hermanzoon – but as did many scholars of the day, he Latinized that to Jacobus Arminius; and it's from that we get the theology derived from him – Arminianism – which as most listeners know, is usually posited as opposite to Reformed theology, or Calvinism. Now, before I get a pile of angry emails and comments – let me say what's called Arminianism and Calvinism today would likely be disavowed by both John Calvin and Jakob Hermanszoon.  If they attended a seminary class on these topics today they'd likely say, “What'ch you talkin' about Willis?”Both Arminianism and Calvinism have taken on theological accretions and associations their authors likely never intended. And strictly speaking, we can't equate Calvinism with what's known as Reformed Theology.But, back to the story. è Arminius was born in the Netherlands near Utrecht. His father was a blacksmith and armorer who died shortly after Jakob was born. He was educated at the expense of family-friends who recognized his keen intellect. He'd just entered Marburg University in Germany at the age of 16 when news reached him of a tragedy back home in his hometown of Oudewater.The Roman Catholic Spanish had occupied a good part of Holland for some time but were expelled from Oudewater when the city became a Protestant enclave. When the Spanish returned, they over-ran the town and carried out a brutal massacre that killed Arminius' mother and siblings. Jakob spent 2 weeks in inconsolable mourning.When the new University of Leiden opened nearby in 1576, he was the 12th student enrolled. At Leiden he adopted the controversial theology of the French scholar Peter Ramus, a Protestant progressive killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Leaving Leiden, Jakob went to Geneva where he enrolled in the Academy, then headed by Theodore Beza, Calvin's successor.Arminius's defense of Ramus angered the faculty of the Academy so he left for a trip to Basel where he declined the offer a doctorate, believing he'd not bring honor to the title.Returning to Geneva, Arminius seems to have been more prudent in his approach. In 1585, Beza wrote to the city magistrates of Amsterdam who'd sponsored Arminius's education, highly commending his ability and diligence and encouraging a continuance of their support in his studies.After a short visit to Italy, Arminius returned home, was ordained, and in 1588 became one of the ministers of Amsterdam. His 1590 marriage to a merchant's daughter gave him influential links.From the outset, Arminius's sermons on Romans 7 drew a strong reaction from staunch  Calvinists who disliked his views on grace and predestination. The Calvinists said that while God's saving grace is unearned, He offers it only to those He predestines to salvation. Arminius disagreed, saying God gives grace to those who believe.In 1592, a colleague accused him of Pelagianism, a 5th C heretical distortion of grace and free-will already condemned by the Church. Arminius was also accused of …1) An overdependence on the early church fathers,2) Deviation from two early Calvinist creeds, the Belgic Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism, and3) An errant views of predestination.When Arminius and his supporters challenged his critics, urging them to point out specifically WHERE he was in error, they were unable to do so. The city authorities ended up on his side. The question of predestination was not raised in any substantive form until Arminius became professor of theology at Leiden, where he served from 1603–9. The last six years of his life were spent in controversy over his views as they stood in opposition to those of his old mentor, Theodore Beza.In a 1606 message titled “On Reconciling Religious Dissensions among Christians,” Arminius argued that dissension damages people both intellectually and emotionally and creates doubt about religion that leads to despair. Left unchecked, it may ultimately lead to atheism. He proposed as a remedy to the controversy his ideas had stirred, the calling of a national synod. Arminius believed the proper arbiter between feuding clergy was a good and godly magistrate. The synod was eventually held at Dort in 1618, but Arminius had already been dead nine years.In assessing Arminius' theological position, we could say that in his attempt to give the human will a more active role in salvation than Beza's brand of Calvinism conceded, Arminius taught a conditional election in which a person's free will might or might not affect the divine offer of salvation.  It's important to distinguish between Arminius's teaching and what later became known as Arminianism, which was more liberal in its view of free will and of related doctrines than was its founder. Arminius's views were never systematically worked out until the year after his death, when his followers issued a declaration called the Remonstrance, which dissented at several points from Beza's description of Calvinism. It held, among other things, that God's predestination was conditioned by human choice, that the Gospel could be freely accepted or rejected, and that a person who'd become a Christian could “fall from grace” or forsake salvation.Though he was mild–tempered, Arminius nevertheless spoke his mind in controversy and characteristically defended his position from Scripture.We'll pick it up at this point in our next episode as we continue our look at Protestant Scholasticism. There's a whole lot more for us to learn about this period, including the Calvinist reaction to the challenge of the Remonstrance, as well as the career of a couple of major lights in Christian history, Brother Lawrence and Blaise Pascal – as well as several others.