Saturday, October 6, 2012

Saturday Musings : East vs. West

Rosenstock  Huessy speaks of the hilarious and creative geniuses of the West, opposing them to (say) Dostoevsky (or a host of other Russian writers one could name).

No one in an Eastern Orthodox Church would have dared to do, for example, this:

altering a mass for the dead in order to make the Bishop commit a liturgical error, just to laugh at them.
 
Guest post at Gornahoor.

Is Western Culture a "wasteland"? How might the Christian regain their soul, so as to attain to their spirit? 

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