{"id":30766,"date":"2011-08-22T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/theanchoress\/?p=30766"},"modified":"2017-03-04T04:38:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T04:38:45","slug":"sentimentalism-a-softer-shade-of-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2011\/08\/22\/sentimentalism-a-softer-shade-of-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentimentalism: a softer shade of tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Disorientation; How to Go to College Without Losing Your Mind<\/strong><\/em><\/a> features essays on modern \u201cIsms\u201d (Hedonism, Americianism, Marxism, Modernism, Relativism, Cynicism) from some of your favorite Catholic writers, including Peter Kreeft<\/a>, Eric Metaxas (whose Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is an award-winning<\/strong><\/a> must<\/em>-read!), Fr. Z.<\/a>, Fr. George Rutler<\/a>, Jimmy Akin<\/a>, Mark Shea<\/a>, Fr. Dwight<\/a> and many more. Given the time of year, I\u2019ve been recommending it be added (along with the YouCat<\/strong><\/a>) to everyone\u2019s \u201cback-to-school\u201d shopping list.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve noticed that a few reviews on Amazon have suggested that the book is \u201ctoo advanced\u201d for college freshmen. Thinking it might give you a better idea of what to expect within, I got permission for Patheos to reprint one full chapter of the book \u2014 my own essay on Sentimentalism<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

That the churches are faulty is undeniable. The Catholic Church, indeed much of Christianity, is an unkempt housemother to a den of miscreants. The place is teeming with gossips, adulterers, cheats, and liars\u2014and that\u2019s just in the pews. Her leadership is, to the progressive perspective, irredeemably sexist, patriarchal, repressed, intolerant, and perhaps malevolent; it supposedly clings to outmoded tradition and outmoded thought due to a shrunken heart and\u2014moderns suggest\u2014an insufficient capacity to reason.<\/p>\n

These charges are easy to make; they are full of modern buzzwords that suggest other buzzwords and people use them as a sort of verbal shorthand, a social coding that denotes at which table one may sit in the societal lunchroom. They signal a bent of mind so \u201cadvanced\u201d that it has done away with the need to reason, and is content to let feelings and desires dress up as critical thought. Hence, a Sentimentalist says he cannot reconcile himself to a Church that \u201cholds women back\u201d\u2014a vague term used to signal support of women priests, while ignoring the historical evidence that Christianity helped women to \u201cself-actualize\u201d as no other societies ever did. He says he cannot believe in a God who would \u201cpunish love\u201d and in this way signals support for gay marriage, while brushing off pesky questions about physiology, covenants, or Scripture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not so scary, right?<\/strong> You can read the whole piece, here<\/strong><\/a>, and of course, pick up the book via Amazon<\/strong><\/a>, or elsewhere. I don\u2019t earn any royalties for pushing the thing. I just think \u2014 having had two sons go through college, one secular, one Catholic \u2014 that these essays (and the YouCat) provide a useful counter-narrative to the college (or prep-school) indoctrinations to which our kids are exposed on campus.<\/p>\n

Julie Davis<\/strong> is recommending a book, also, one that got under her skin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE:
\nTurns out Brandon Vogt<\/strong> reviewed the book a few months ago<\/strong><\/a>, and linked to other reviews as well.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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