tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post2287900150438592426..comments2023-12-02T06:33:50.847-08:00Comments on Notes from a Common-place Book: "History does not belong to us, we belong to it"Terry (John)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07523479530843509695noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-52330626381877179662008-08-12T07:08:00.000-07:002008-08-12T07:08:00.000-07:00Checked out Pat's book at Borders. Read Intro and ...Checked out Pat's book at Borders. Read Intro and Conclusion... and seems a good library "borrow" rather than a "read to own". Interesting perspectives... but think I agree with you... that it's... uh... it's... uh Pat, right? The imprint of the axe when he gets to the Bush family... which in different ways I can't say that I disagree with... is well... still grinding away.James the Thickheadedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11128470567186118742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-46319290170846258622008-08-10T17:51:00.000-07:002008-08-10T17:51:00.000-07:00This sounds like my next book! Thanks for the exce...This sounds like my next book! Thanks for the excerpts.<BR/><BR/>LeonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-14013208064437009852008-08-07T19:21:00.000-07:002008-08-07T19:21:00.000-07:00As you read and re-read, I read and re-read your p...As you read and re-read, I read and re-read your post over the last few days; a great deal in there. Thank you; I will have to look for <I>Discerning the Mystery: An Essay on the Nature of Theology</I>.<BR/><BR/>As James wrote above, the difference in "engagement" is what first drew me to Orthodoxy, and something I still love -- and yet often struggle with. How much easier to learn from a book [a caricature of "the Western Churches" I know, but it was the way in my churches] than struggle inwardly. And Tradition is indeed freeing and freedom: it sounds paradoxical, but I have found it thus.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-36686630899872777982008-08-07T05:32:00.000-07:002008-08-07T05:32:00.000-07:00John:Thanks for all the quotes! Guess it kind of d...John:<BR/><BR/>Thanks for all the quotes! Guess it kind of drives you to conclude perhaps coming into this Church we are coming into an entirely different engagement with scripture than we've known - neither historical nor narrative, but experimental... putting ourselves into the story here and there, letting the story unfold in our life and not just in our heads. Think Fr. John Romanides had something to say on this... but you probably know that. <BR/><BR/>Gonna check out ol'Pat's stuff. Never read a Pat book... probably for the reasons you almost suggest. But a contrast between Winnie and Adolph... offers some draw. Thanks for that, too.James the Thickheadedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11128470567186118742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-61742525790110525212008-08-05T16:05:00.000-07:002008-08-05T16:05:00.000-07:00Ranger,I have the Colliander book, but have only r...Ranger,<BR/><BR/>I have the Colliander book, but have only read parts of it. I will definitely revisit on your recommendation.<BR/><BR/>Ancient Paths Primitive Baptist Church, huh? To me, that sounds more Church of Christ than Primitive Baptist. This is a little unusual, as for both groups their names were nearly always locative in nature.<BR/><BR/>Back in my CoC days, a preacher or elder would occasionally get on his soapbox about returning to the "old paths," which probably is what your PB church is driving at. It comes from Jeremiah 6:16:<BR/><BR/>Thus says the LORD: “ Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is,And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls..."<BR/><BR/>Of course, "old paths" was a code word in the CoC. It usually meant the speaker was on a rant about "innovations" in the church, often having to do with contemporary music, modernism, grace, fellowshipping the Baptists, etc. What was so funny was that the "old paths" they had in mind, usually only harkened back to the way they did things back in the 1920s, or at best, the mid 1800s--which in their minds, was the exact way it was done in the 1st century. To anyone with any historical consciousness, this was laughable on the surface. But a lot of that sort of thing went on.<BR/><BR/>In recent months, I made a quick trip to NW Arkansas, and later to Jackson, MS and the Delta--all family-related. I've compiled a list of roadside churches to go with your Ancient Paths Primitive Baptist. That will probably be my next post...<BR/><BR/>Thanks again.Terry (John)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07523479530843509695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-81324526744589939762008-08-04T21:00:00.000-07:002008-08-04T21:00:00.000-07:00John, "Scripture is being understood as an arsen...John,<BR/> "Scripture is being understood as an arsenal and not a treasury." To true, to true.<BR/> You have helped me pick my next read, thanks. Another little book with a lot in it is "The Way of The Ascetic" by Tito Colliander.<BR/> I took a trip down to the Texas Panhandle and passed by a church called something like "Ancient Paths Primitive Baptist Church" I wondered if you would have any insight into that.<BR/>THanks for your blog.Rangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15025551431965418126noreply@blogger.com