The pre-modern remnant
Bless their Souls of
The Christian Tradition
Reacts against
Obviously Exploitative
Soul Deadening
Aspects of Liberalism
It’s true but
The Overweening Temptation
To get immediately relevant seating
At: The Table
Has inexorably Dragged The Church
Forward towards DEATH of the MASS.
“A Historic Need and Moment”
See:
Prophetic Voices
Treat the modernity-induced
Crisis of the Church Culture
Effectively
That odd cast of mind!
Which allows one to SEE
Corruption In Oneself while
Still loving The World
Joyfully engaging earthly reality
Insistant on SEEing
The Divine Reflection and
The Demonic Shadow.
Therefore, we seek the best kinds, those
Who DO NOT FEEL COMPELLED TO WALLOW
In excessively religious discourse thank God but
Share a Chestertonian Commitment
To a “fully nuanced”
Christian Humanism, I say
A Chestertonian Commitment
To a Christian Humanism
Forward-looking but also
Post-Liberal
Which can offer cultural-political
Critique of the stereotypical
Modern left-right-from-within
The Christian “Great Tradition”
That is to say: Fundamentally
Anti-materialist
Anti-positivist
Anti-utopian-alleluia
We will strive then to
TAKE HEED
To Chestertonian Comments:
The act of defending a Cardinal
Virtue today has all the exhilaration of a Vice
And steer clear
Of Terminal Earnestness
which Dooms so many
And Debilitating Cynicism
Which DOOMS SO MANY OTHERS.
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