Looking Into the "Our Father" and Link to My Main Blog

[jprussell]

I've finally gotten my personal website up and running more or less how I like it, and I've decided to start publishing my stuff there. That being said, for anything likely to be relevant to the Ecosophia community, I'll post a link here and take comments here, as my current very-static set up doesn't have any way to handle comments.

At any rate, my latest post is doing a deep dive on what the Council of Trent had to say about the "Our Father" and then taking what I learned from that to propose a framework for writing a functionally-similar prayer for other religions. I'd be delighted if you check it out here:

Looking Into the "Our Father"

Comments

[randomactsofkarmasc]

I don't have time to read your post this morning, but I did visit your 'webstead' (love that name!). Looks fabulous, and I look forward to reading your posts.

[causticus]

Nice! So glad to see this. I especially love the minimalist design, it really speaks to my nostalgia for older-generation web sites, back from that "golden age" of the internet long before ubiquitous social media, the app-ificaiton of everything, and of course mass censorship was a thing. Also, a good throwback to old-school pagan websites, i.e. the ones that actually talked about the Gods without mixing in so many irrelevant and obnoxious off-topics.

[open_space]

Nice! I haven't read the modality about basics of web design but if you ever want some help with web things I might probably help. Have you looked into CSS? Not that it is isn't neat already but it might make things easier! I also look forward to reading yours posts.

[boccaderlupo]

Some interesting thoughts (posting a reply to the main post for simplicity's sake). Will read through again, and perhaps it was mentioned there, but for the mystically inclined perhaps worth noting the parallel between "on earth as it is in heaven" with "as above, so below." (One might additionally CF the Orphic golden tablets, "A child of Earth and starry Heaven"...)

From a theological perrspective, what's additionally interesting is the implication that God can, in fact, lead one into temptation (which hearkens back to Isaiah 45:7, "I make peace, and create evil.") The darkness as well as the light.

Speaking as an heterodox Christian, although there's certainly a lot of theology packed in there, the prayer additionally has an extremely potent quality when used in the proper circumstances...befitting a prayer given to humankind by the Divine (the other name for it is, of course, "The Lord's Prayer.")

Fra' Lupo