Autumn Book Club – Reading Schedule

ERE IS THE Reading Schedule for the Autumn Book Club‘s reading of Olivier Clement’s Roots of Christian Mysticism. Please read the assigned portion and post on it prior to the appointed date.

What to post? A reaction, a rejection, a dialogue, memories it raised, poetry, stories of your childhood in a bad religious situation… whatever. Feel free to post on the assigned reading any time (or even more than once) during the reading period for that section.

The goal is a multi-blog discussion of this. Please surf around to the blogs who have agreed to do this and enter into the discussion with the bloggers! Even (or perhaps especially) if you do not have a blog, please be sure and enter into the discussion! (If you don’t have a blog – it’s VERY easy to get one at WordPress or Blogspot – and they are free!)

Start Date: 15 September

First Post date: 30 September
Introduction & Part One “Understanding the Mystery”

Second Post date: 15 October
Part Two “Initiation for Warfare” – Section 1 on Ecclesia: A Place for Rebirth

Third Post date: 31 October
Part Two “Initiation for Warfare” – Section 2, 3 and 4

Fourth Post date: 15 November
Part Three “Approaches to Contemplation – Sections 1 and 2

Fifth Post date: 30 November
Part Three “Approaches to Contemplation – Section 3

Sixth Post date: 15 December
Part Three “Approaches to Contemplation – Section 4

Seventh Post date: 20 December
Any final thoughts.

Patristic Roulette

“There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism.... The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.”

by Nicolas Berdyaev

Slavery and Freedom

3 Responses to “Autumn Book Club – Reading Schedule”

Sare Gordy
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:27 pm

Yays, the schedule is up! Have printed it out and enclosed it in my book. Which means I probably ought to start reading, eh? And getting Lee blogworthy. Kind of like seaworthy, but with blogs in the blogosphere.

Blogosphere. What an odd word. Like a cross between Biosphere 2 and that round cage that motorcycles zip around in uber fast at circuses and fairs and the like.

Sare Gordy
September 10th, 2008 at 10:15 am

Huw – will you make it easy on us, and create a post that has all of our rss feeds in it, so we can load it into our readers?

::smiles::
Please?

Gracias,
Sare

(Whose rss feed for her work blog is: http://www.trinitybuffalo.org/blogs/feed/ )

Lee Purcell
September 14th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

Hi Huw! Okay, I printed the reading schedule. I’ll get a little more help from Sare and I think I’ll be able to do this! What a learning experience this is! Keeps me from classifying myself as “old and dated”! Thanks!