The Cult of King Alfred

[...] : Those actions were done by Olav I (Trygvesson).  The “Saint” Olav is Olav II (Haraldsson). While there is an offhand comment on wikipedia that Olav II “forced&# [...]

[...] . Ron Paulite for the Republic (RPR): I don’t get why you always talk about “absolute divine simplicity” when we could be exposing the FED and beating up on Arminians. Triadic: (Tr): [...]

[...] specific way to speak about the Trinity. More importantly, it explores the implications of Trinitarian belief. RPR: Could you expound on that? Tr: Sure. St Gregory of Nazianzus, a man whom all [...]

[...] , right (City of God, Book VIII)? RPR: Yes, Augustine did say that. TR: Didn’t Plotinus posit the One as a completely Simple Entity that is all there is (Enneads, 1:3:1; 6:9) RPR: [...]

[...] , so here goes: He is a saint and venerated as such. Ten years ago at RTS I was reading and re-reading Augustine and offering far worse criticisms, yet no one batted an eye then.  I am not even [...]

[...] and the Cappadocians for attacks on the West.  Anyway, when it comes to Enlightenment-era non-Calvinist protestant countries, I am surprisingly “pro-West.”  I’ve been reading Hegel [...]

[...] continue to attack:  liberal democratic capitalism. Post script:  It is a shame that the Swedish king Charles XII lost to Peter the Great. It would have been a boon to humanity had Charles destroyed [...]

[...] ; when you have just as robust a dialectic within your own system. RPR: That’s an argumentum ad elenchio! TR (to himself): ???? (To RPR): Don’t use Latin words unless you know what they [...]

[...] Enlightenment had already gone some way and seemed bound to go further. It had a Protestant political culture and hence could achieve a rational constitution unlike the benighted peoples of Latin [...]

[...] yet the people are still free. I am not sure on Hegel’s optimism for a Protestant Monarchy. I know that Germany saw as much, and even England can claim to be a “monarchy&# [...]