Whereas Achilles was a man of rage, Odysseus is “a man of twists and turns,” a phrase which describes his itinerary, but also his character. He’s not so straightforward in conflict as an Achilles or a Goliath; he’s rather, like his patron Athena, tactical, strategic, cunning.
The new events happening around the country were seen as something of a new Pentecost wherein all of the fetters of old Christianity would be unbound and usher in a new age of ecumenism founded only upon the New Testament.
In contemplation that birth and death have much in common, and the Christian whom God has brought safely through the first need not fear the second.
The poem begins with the love that is God, hidden within the inner workings of the Trinity, before time. From the eternal begetting of the Son and the procession of the Spirit, the love of God pours out in the creation of angels and men.
A Classical education naturally favors the Realist side of the Medieval question, the heritage of Plato and Aristotle, a world that makes sense because it was created by the very Thought and Word of God Himself, the Logos who “was in the beginning with God, and… was God”
Giants in the Earth (1924–1925) brings an old-world perspective to bear on the experience of the Norwegian pioneers who undertook the herculean task of carving an existence out of the terrifyingly new and unfamiliar world of the northern Great Plains.
The following is an excerpt from “Communism and Socialism: minutes of the First German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, U.A.C. at Saint Louis, Missouri: a stenographic report of four lectures” by C. F. W. Walther and translated by Rev. D. Simon, 1879.
The oldest colleges and universities of this blessed Republic were founded by the Church. The founding fathers of America believed that if establishing churches was the number one priority, schools were the second.
