Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween...et alium rerum.

FUSELI, John Henry. The Nightmare.
1790-91. Oil on canvas. Goethe-Museum, Frankfurt.
Happy Hallowse'en! Consider Fuseli's imagining of might be the causes of a nightmare. Today our rationalistic scientists might look at nightmare's as a having only material causes. But we as Christians know better, that much of the physical events of the world have spiritual causes.
This also raises the question, quid est Halloween? When we look at how our culture, if one can call it that, celebrates this day, we are confronted with an anachronistic and moral problem: How are we as Christians supposed to think about such a holiday that is marked by such impure show and often gratuitously violent images.

Agenda:
  1. Prayer
  2. Quid est Halloween?
  3. Lecture  on Cap I Grammar
    1. Take notae bonae!
  4. Review HW:
    1. Study notes and concepts for Cap I.

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