Love this. I will have to check out the book. One thing I really struggled with being raised in a very artsy Catholic family is that despite seeing Beauty (to this day one of my highest values) as an attribute of the divine, we have lost any sense of the connection to the original revelation that is Nature.
I remember an old philosophy professor of mine making a dirty joke about early Medieval philosophers like Augustine of Hippo talking about the proof of God in the rhythms of nature like walking *etc*, but I guess when society stopped being that syncretic it all became "too pagan" and "too dangerous".
I like Pelagius, but of course orthodoxy does not...
And a lot of those things like beauty and nature are often associated with the feminine, which is of course viewed as suspect and lesser than, because heteropatriarchy.
Love this. I will have to check out the book. One thing I really struggled with being raised in a very artsy Catholic family is that despite seeing Beauty (to this day one of my highest values) as an attribute of the divine, we have lost any sense of the connection to the original revelation that is Nature.
I remember an old philosophy professor of mine making a dirty joke about early Medieval philosophers like Augustine of Hippo talking about the proof of God in the rhythms of nature like walking *etc*, but I guess when society stopped being that syncretic it all became "too pagan" and "too dangerous".
I like Pelagius, but of course orthodoxy does not...
And a lot of those things like beauty and nature are often associated with the feminine, which is of course viewed as suspect and lesser than, because heteropatriarchy.