“Concerning the Patriarch I shall say this, lest it should perhaps occur to him to show me a certain respect at the burial of this my humble body, or to send to my grave any of his hierarchs or clergy or in general any of those in communion with him in order to take part in prayer or to join the priests invited to it from amongst us, thinking that at some time, or perhaps secretly, I had allowed communion with him.
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Athanasius the Great (Popular Patristics Series Edition) Lewis, Excerpt from the Preface to On the Incarnation by St. It has to be tested against the great body of Christian thought down the ages, and all its hidden implications (often unsuspected by the author himself) have to be brought to light.
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A new book is still on its trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it. And I would give him this advice precisely because he is an amateur and therefore much less protected than the expert against the dangers of an exclusive contemporary diet. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old. Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. Augustine or Thomas Aquinas or Hooker or Butler, but M. Wherever you find a little study circle of Christian laity you can be almost certain that they are studying not St. This mistaken preference for the modern books and this shyness of the old ones is nowhere more rampant than in theology. It has always therefore been one of my main endeavours as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. The error is rather an amiable one, for it springs from humility. He would rather read some dreary modern book ten times as long, all about “isms” and influences and only once in twelve pages telling him what Plato actually said. Thus I have found as a tutor in English Literature that if the average student wants to find out something about Platonism, the very last thing he thinks of doing is to take a translation of Plato off the library shelf and read the Symposium. There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books. Therefore, it seems fitting to include an excerpt from that writing here as one of the purposes of this site is to create an interest in reading the original writings of the Church Fathers. Lewis writes so succinctly about the need to read the original sources in the Preface to On the Incarnation by St. There is a child waiting, and you are denying us him, and him us.It is an anomaly for Orthodox Church Quotes to post material that is not from an elder, saint, or church father, but C.S. You didn't ask what kind of people we are. Y'know, you're not smart enough to take this anymore than you are to, to, recognize good parents. What is that? That is D-flawless, three-point-two karats, emerald cut. You got an eight-year old black chink kid, we'll take him. You got a black kid? We'll take a black kid. Great, so we'll take a kid that's not so desirable. We will relieve you of some of the burden.īut the point is, we establish criteria for parenting, and an ex-convict compared to other desirables. Then why do you still have kids here? As a kid I would not be falling all over myself to stay in one of these places. Umm, you have to understand, we have more applicants than children. I, uh, I spot-welded desks, and then I got promoted to shoes. I see on your application here - by the way, you misspelled mail, it's M-A-L-E, the other's what we put in post boxes - I see you put under employer: 1959 to 1976, Joliet State Penitentiary.ĭesks.