Archive for June 2008
The Agrarian Standard
“If we believe that the existence of the world is rooted in mystery and in sanctity, then we would have a different economy… To perceive the world and our life in it as gifts originating in sanctity is to see our human economy as a continuing moral crisis. Our life of need and work forces us inescapably to use in time things belonging to eternity, and to assign finite values to things already recognized as infinitely valuable. This is a fearful predicament. It calls for prudence, humility, good work, propriety of scale. It calls for the complex responsibilities of caretaking and giving-back that we mean by ‘stewardship.’ To all of this the idea of the immeasurable value of the resource is central.”
Wendell Berry, The Agrarian Standard
Taken from The Essential Agrarian Reader
Chesterton vs. Theological Innovators
“The new theologians often say that the old creeds need re-statement, but though they say it, they do not mean it. They mean exactly the opposite. They do not mean that they should find new words to express the exact meaning of the old doctrines. They mean that we should say the old words, but agree that they mean something entirely different.”
G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, July 3, 1920.
