tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post7743361040824131494..comments2024-03-12T04:14:16.271-05:00Comments on The Rad Trad: REVIEW: Unguarded Hours by AN WilsonThe Rad Tradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00899289024837953345noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-55211116313542372692018-08-21T11:15:02.043-05:002018-08-21T11:15:02.043-05:00I have bought several copies of the book over the ...I have bought several copies of the book over the years for friends entering Anglican theological colleges. I first read it (in hardback) when it was new out, having been lent it by a friend at Cambridge who imparted his knowledge as to the real identities of the characters. I can remember only one of them.AndrewWShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00196842185913965725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-85597318352428757122018-08-11T14:45:20.863-05:002018-08-11T14:45:20.863-05:00I hadn't heard of this novel until I read your...I hadn't heard of this novel until I read your post. I picked up the Kindle version and have been reading it nightly -- it is rip-roaring hilarious! One needs all the laughter one can get these days. Thanks for the tip.Tom B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07289474788868616380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-35439681257276569692018-08-11T09:26:34.356-05:002018-08-11T09:26:34.356-05:00Not quite understand the connection. You seem to s...Not quite understand the connection. You seem to start with the current situation among the traditional Catholics in England and then switch to a novel about ritualist Anglicans. Maybe Dr. Shaw could chime in about this, but all the notorious cases in traditional institutes I've read of happened on the Western hemisphere (Soc. St. John, a case in ICK).Pulexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13164993172745639593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-26162453562723889082018-08-10T11:19:03.263-05:002018-08-10T11:19:03.263-05:00Marissa,
I’m not sure the two are really comparab...Marissa,<br /><br />I’m not sure the two are really comparable. The story of St Stephen’s House is that of aesthetics and prissiness attracting out and out gays, whereas Lincoln’s disgrace is more predatory grooming and what has widely happened in American and Irish dioceses.The Rad Tradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00899289024837953345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-74441299245651866982018-08-10T10:18:31.482-05:002018-08-10T10:18:31.482-05:00This same traditionalism wed to homosexualism can ...This same traditionalism wed to homosexualism can be seen in the stories of the seminary in the diocese of Lincoln. You can read them at 1Peter5.Marissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734624055833603768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-19597343204201776902018-08-07T19:26:42.191-05:002018-08-07T19:26:42.191-05:00Podles is well worth reading, since few others hav...Podles is well worth reading, since few others have approached this unfortunate subject seriously. Some of what he writes must be read in a larger context of which I am not sure the author is aware. For example he attributes a feminizing element to St Bernard because of his theology of the mystical kiss of Christ, but a kiss was, not unlike a hug today, a sign of affectionate greeting between friends from Roman times through the Enlightenment; men even held arms while walking until the 19th century without sexual suggestion to it.<br /><br />He is right, however, that a very feminine piety prevailed throughout Christianity by the dawn of modern scandals, scandals which he catalogs with startling detail, including one right here at St. Luke's in Irving, TX.The Rad Tradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00899289024837953345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-88646862556554909182018-08-07T09:57:59.821-05:002018-08-07T09:57:59.821-05:00"American Catholics are accustomed to the sli..."American Catholics are accustomed to the slightly effete parish priest who gets on more with female parishioners than men." -- I heartily recommend to any reader who has not yet done so, to pick up Lee Podles' book-length scholarly treatment of this phenomenon and of the general emasculation of western Christianity, which way predates the American church (or the discovery of the Americas by Christians, for that matter). His 1999 book, "The Church Impotent," is now available for free online: http://podles.org/church-impotent.htmTom B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07289474788868616380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-25020506277197059762018-08-05T12:17:01.963-05:002018-08-05T12:17:01.963-05:00Wilson, of course, is relaying his own experiences...Wilson, of course, is relaying his own experiences, very thinly disguised by fiction, and improved by his style. I've always found the agnostic, if not nihilistic, ritualism of that milieu deeply distressing. <br /><br />Novusordoites, in triumphantly gloating tones, would always point to the camp young men who could never make up their minds between the Anglo-Catholic party in the CofE and the Roman Church as proof of the moral corruption, which according to them, almost invariably accompanies interest in the traditional liturgy. <br /><br />I've always felt there was a continuum between a certain chorister culture in the varsity colleges (and choir schools of cathedrals) and the Staggers type (and other types as well)- where the dogmatic and spiritual content of Christianity was held to be of little worth while the aesthetic heritage was cultivated with gusto, and dare I say, talent. <br /><br />It is a strange thing when a man goes to college chapel and hears Allegri's Miserere being sung by choristers, undergoes some sort of spiritual conversion, and then overhears the same choristers touting their cubicular prowesses in the pub next door. Osmund Kilrule https://www.blogger.com/profile/07031929350172992367noreply@blogger.com