David Russell Mosley Festival of St Monica, mother of St Augustine 27 August 2013 The Borders of the Perilous Realm, Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear Friends and Family, Today I want to write yet again about something very close to my heart: Faerie and Fantasy in Christian theology. I have posted on this topic enough times now that I have included a whole menu above to it. This theme is one that has brought quite a bit of... Read more
David Russell Mosley 19 August 2013 Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear Friends and Family, Here is my review of The Ancestral Sin by John S. Romanides. Hope you appreciate it. This book is a primarily unhelpful polemic from start to finish. Romanides main point seems to be to show how the West is woefully wrong concerning sin and death (sinfully wrong, perhaps) and how the East contains only the right vision. Romanides argues that the West’s understanding of created grace, evil as privation... Read more
David Russell Mosley 12 August 2013 Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear Friends and Family, Here is my review of Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea. I hope you enjoy. This is an excellent book and a must read for any and all (Christian and atheist) who think evolution and Christianity are firmly at odds. Cunningham shows that traditional readings of Genesis (i.e. Genesis as read by Jews and early Christians) does not require a Young Earth Creationist conclusion. Nor, however, does Darwin’s theory of... Read more
David Russell Mosley Festival of King Oswald 5 August 2013 Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear Friends and Family, Here is review I wrote a few weeks ago after my second reading of John Milbank’s Being Reconciled. I hope you enjoy. This is my second reading of Milbank’s Being Reconciled and I must say I’m glad I read it again. While even after the first reading I determined that this was Milbank’s most comprehensible book, at least that I’ve tackled thus... Read more
David Russell Mosley 1 August 2013 Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear Friends and Family, Here’s another extract from my second chapter on Deification Creation. I hope you enjoy. Feel free to leave comments below: The Need for a Deifier What is left, in the end, is a created order that is good, that has an end which is God, and which it cannot achieve on its own. The universe needs humanity to fulfil its end in God, for without humanity, there... Read more
David Russell Mosley Festival of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord 29 July 2013 Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear Friends and Family, Here is my brief review of We Are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul’s Soteriology by M. David Litwa: A generally awful book written under the guise of neutrality and objectivity. Litwa is unconcerned with reading Paul as Paul intended to be read. He also, haphazardly, will refer to non-Christian, non-Jewish, and non-canonical documents to prove his points when the canons (Old... Read more
David Russell Mosley Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 23 July 2013 Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear Friends and Family, Here is another brief extract from the second chapter of my thesis on Creation and deification. I hope you enjoy. The Role of Humanity in Creation This brings us to role and place of humanity in creation. We will discuss more fully in the section below humanity being made in the image and likeness of God and how nascent humanity... Read more
David Russell Mosley http://elflandletters.wordpress.com/ Feast of St Mary Magdalene 22 July 2013 Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear Friends and Family, In that same post on facebook and twitter I mention here, another thing people asked for was more book reviews. To that end, I have collected some of my book reviews written on goodreads and shelfari and will repost them. I may occasionally expand them and will eventually get to a point where I start writing more reviews for the blog, but... Read more
David Russell Mosley Festival of St Gregory of Nyssa and St Macrina 19 July 2013 Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear Friends and Family, Today, I wanted to share another portion of my thesis. Sadly, this section neither features Gregory of Nyssa, nor his sister Macrina. Instead, it focuses on some work I’ve done concerning Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways or Proofs of God and their relationship to deification. I hope you enjoy. Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways as Evidence of Deification A. N. Williams... Read more
David Russell Mosley http://elflandletters.wordpress.com/ 17 July 2013 Beeston, Nottinghamshire Dear Friends and Family, I recently asked some friends on facebook and twitter what they would like to see more of on my blog. One of the ideas was to write more about my thesis, maybe give extracts. There is a hard line to balance here. If I put too much, publishers might view this as already published material and not wish to publish it themselves, but to do nothing at... Read more
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