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• 21:56 @ParrotKnight Have a feeling that trying to write on mystic verse while simultaneously doing science stuff with 8 yo.s could only end badly! #
• 21:58 It's unbelievably wet out there. Flooding next? #
• 22:43 Slacktivist listed under "30 top atheist/ agnostic/ skeptic" blogs. Since when did not believing in dodgy 19th C heresies make you atheist? #
• 00:01 Wonder why the Bible Gateway version of the Vulgate has no punctuation. They disapprove of Popery? But it's such a very convenient site... #
• 00:04 Of course I could have got up, gone to the bookcase, and looked up my own copy, but that would have meant getting cold. Sloth strikes again! #
• 00:08 *gives up on Hadewijch* #
• 07:54 I mostly agreed with Anne Atkins, but being woken up by her enthusiastic reading of the explicit bit of the Song of Songs was still scary. #
• 07:55 Though possibly not as scary as forming the sentence "I mostly agreed with Anne Atkins". #
• 07:58 Chaotic publishers have discovered another article. I should be grateful for work, but I wish they had an overview of what they were doing! #
• 09:02 *Gloomily contemplates untidyness of room* Also, I think the washer has been eating my socks. #
• 10:36 Caffeine! Yay! This is clearly going to be one of those days which begin in a fog and end in twitching.... #
• 10:39 www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/8595 *head-desk* Church Commissioners seem to specialise in 'subtle as doves and innocent as serpents'... #
• 11:10 www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2009/feb/08/pendennis Though I don't think 'pissing off the Protestant Truth Society' really counts as #
• 11:12 ... threatening to split the Anglican Communion, and Compline is a good thing, anyway. (I'm tempted to say 'so is annoying the PTS', but ... #
• 11:14 ... that would be exceedingly uncharitable.) Though I do think they might have noticed that the OP haven't burned anyone for centuries now! #
• 14:36 Continuing to ponder expressions of mystic union in Middle Dutch, and being impressed by my flist's veggie recipes. #
• 16:00 @ParrotKnight Because this is the internet? #
• 17:07 I've lost my pencil. A shame, as I want to write 'gnostic crap' in the margin, but I rather jib at doing it in ink, even though it's true. #
• 17:22 @ParrotKnight The pencil thinks matter is beneath its dignity, clearly, and remains an Idea. Which makes it rather useless to human needs. #
• 17:24 @ParrotKnight *insert unsubtle (written in shamelessly material ink?) allegory of the Incarnation here.* Sorry, mysticism is making me odd. #
• 17:26 @GMWWemyss Actually, that happened in Bavaria a few years ago, and a number of people were killed. Shoddy seventies building practices... #
• 17:34 @ParrotKnight I concede that I was odd already. Or are you suggesting that mysticism is incompatible with a robust Incarnationalism? #
• 17:42 @ParrotKnight There's a tension in the latter matter, but I really wouldn't go as far as incompatible. Your first point is quite justified! #
• 17:59 I've found my pencil. I apologise for casting doubt upon its orthodoxy. #
• 18:43 @ParrotKnight Doubt is a normal part of faith. Though I don't think the ontological status of my pencil is a big deal, theologically! #
• 18:46 I can has seminar paper (now with added thesis!) And I'm going for a burrito. Should have read Hebrews 12, but anyway, yay paper! #

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[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

07:55: that's just what I thought, when I read your 07:54 !!!

[owl]

Since when was the CoE a Protestant Reformed denomination, anyway? Or am I utterly confused?

[tree_and_leaf]

It was a very, very disturbing start to the day all round!

I think the answer to that is 'during the Civil War'/

[tree_and_leaf]

There are some Anglicans who think it is. They are wrong a bit out of date.† The Thirty Nine Articles are pretty solidly Reformed, though the practices and government of the C of E have always been more of a sort of state Catholicism minus the Pope. Since the Oxford Movement, the C of E has moved much more in a catholic direction, no longer really necessarily giving much weight to the Calvinist bits of the 39 Articles, and with frequent communions, usually with vestments on a Sunday and often East-facing. There is a tension, though, between Anglicans who would call themselves 'Protestant', Anglicans who would probably duck it and just say 'Anglican' and those like me who, if pushed, would probably describe themselves as catholic Anglicans, Anglo-Catholics, or some variation thereon. Anyway, the PTS are a bunch of cranks (I didn't know they were still extant - I first heard of them in the context of Sayers' plays on the life of Christ, which they opposed as blasphemous.

† Arguably. I am trying not to be a biased Anglo-Catholic git, and probably failing miserably. But I genuinely don't think it makes much sense to call the C of E, en masse, Protestant, though it does contain Protestants. Does that make any sense?

Re: I think the answer to that is 'during the Civil War'/

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

It depends how you define "Protestant": I define myself as such, despite being (for example) generally pro-incense. Reformed, not so much anymore.

Caffeine! Yay! This is clearly going to be one of those days which begin in a fog and end in twitching...

I know those well. That's why I'm giving up coffee...

Re: I think the answer to that is 'during the Civil War'/

[tree_and_leaf]

I know a (German) Lutheran who maintains that the Lutheran church is not 'Protestant', though it is evangelisch. This is an interesting one.

I would call myself reformed, but it has all the Calvinist baggage...

Re: I think the answer to that is 'during the Civil War'/

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I had a comment lined up over an hour ago, decided that it was none of my business, and deleted it before posting; but it was partly to do with anti-Romanism being ironically defeated by the in part protestant historicism of the Enlightenment, and the same anti-Romanism being rendered out of date by the decline of Catholic absolutism, although this threat was still very real to the opponents of the Oxford Movement.

Re: I think the answer to that is 'during the Civil War'/

[tree_and_leaf]

Well, the history is anyone's business, surely?

Re: I think the answer to that is 'during the Civil War'/

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Yes - I can be oversensitive!