1. Take the nearest book.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Copy out the 5th sentence, and then the next 2-5 lines after that.
4. Name the book (As Karen says, well, duh!)
5. Inflict this on 5 other victims.
1. The nearest books as I sit at the keyboard are a pile of Maryvale PGCE coursebooks.
3.The absolute moral norms taught by the Church ('Do not commit adultery' and so on) are ways of protecting the person.
And the next five lines or so.
Read VS 96-97 on this point. The idea of commandments is viewed with suspicion by many people, and they resist allowing the notion of God's commandments to have any significant place in morality. A fear of legalism may be at the base of this. As we have seen, a legalistic concept of morality makes the idea of law, or of rules, primary so that the person is subordinated to them. A Christian cannot take this approach, since God's fullest revelation of himself was not a book or a set of commandments or instructions, but was as a human being. Modern moral thinking is rightly 'personalist' ie it is based upon an understanding of the nature of the person and what kinds of actions accord with our true good and dignity.
4. The book is coursebook C5 Personal, Moral and Social Education including Every Child Matters and Citizenship 2008 Edition.
If you feel that you would like to participate, take yourself as being one of my five nominees!
Now, if I had been sitting in my living room you might have had Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Study Edition of the Lectionary for Mass, Louis Bouyer's Eucharist, Henri de Lubac's Corpus Mysticum... or the Officium Divinum ex decreto Sacronsancti Oeucumenici Concilii Vaticani II instuaratum acutoritate Pauli PP. VI promulgatum.
4 comments:
Swift work, Joe - thank you!
The priest was exceedingly clever at writing and figuring; he knew the law and was a skilled doctor, although not as skilled as he thought".
"But, judging by his behaviour, no on woujld think him a clever man; he often said foolish things. Ragnfrid and Lavrans had never liked him, but the Sundbu people, as was reasonable, set great store by their priest, and both they and he were greatly disappointed that he had not been called on to tend to Ulvhild."
"Kristin Lavransdatter" by Sigrid Undset (Tiina Nunnally translation)
An absolutely breathtaking novel. (only half-way through it's 1120 pages - but not a superfluous or wasted line so far).
zero says
Or you might have had "A life of Pi" (if in the sitting room)and i can assure your legions they would enjoy an excellent yarn. Look at the time-i am not insomniac but just in after a night's labouring!
As far as "A life of Pi" goes, it would have depended on whether I turned to my left or to my right from my chair!
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