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"Summa Kentuckiana"


Someone else can read this to find if there are any "Mel Gibson" nuggets in this... way too long for my attention span... the title alone is interesting enough... likely some theology offensive to Protestants...

(This was written by Catholic Priest/Friar "Father Henry Stephan," the man who baptized and confirmed Vance last week.)

https://www.dominicanajournal.org/summa-kentuckiana/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=summa-kentuckiana

Here's Henry's website: https://dominicanfriars.org/DF_Brothers/bro-henry-stephan-o-p/

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So I gave this a once-over and I didn't see anything controversial - it's actually an interesting read.

It's not clear to me, but it seems that "Summa Kentuckiana" was written by Friar Stephan as a "book review" of sorts based on the writings of Wendell Berry, a writer from Henry County, Kentucky. There's a lot of Saint Paul and Thomas Aquinas for anyone that's into that sort of thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry

I liked Berry's excerpts in the book review... I'm going to buy one of his books...

The "most questionnable" thing I can point to in this book review is this passage:

[Berry writes some things about his fictional town dying, young people leaving, etc.]

Friar Stephan writes "This neatly summarizes the sense of rootlessness that now pervades American culture, and that makes fostering a love for the common good increasingly difficult. Nearly all the ties that bind us to people and places in ways that require commitment and self-sacrifice have been weakened over the past half-century: families, neighbors, a shared culture, a sense of the past, a common faith. Even reality itself is increasingly seen as a subject to redefinition based on one’s desires and preferences, no matter how disordered. As a result, we are more profoundly restless, and rootless, than ever before."


"Nearly all the ties that bind us to people and places in ways that require commitment and self-sacrifice have been weakened over the past half-century: families, neighbors, a shared culture, a sense of the past, a common faith."

You might disagree with that (I do) but you can't disagree with:

Even reality itself is increasingly seen as a subject to redefinition based on one’s desires and preferences, no matter how disordered.



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