I was looking at my Goodreads last night and it occurred to me that I have read more of your books than perhaps any other individual author. Maybe that's a reflection of my youth (or horrible reading habits). But over the years your work has truly been lifechanging for me. Thank you, I can't wait to see what comes next.
It’s refreshing that there’s a substack account that isn’t wholly dedicated to covering politics—from questionable voices—but instead is an outlet for enlightening and sagacious subjects—which, unfortunately, is not the norm.
However, from what I continue to gather in the academic and online and real worlds, your insights are constantly spreading to an ever wider and more curious audience! This is exactly what our fallen Kenoma needs!
P.S. I can’t wait for your upcoming book on consciousness! Once that is published and I have read it, I hope to interview you once again!
I must admit I was not sure what to expect when I signed up but I look forward to the posts. The often sense of imagination, with history, theology, and philosophy I find thougt provoking and yes, entertaining. What you do is an art but more importanlly we come to a better understanding of what it means to be a human and the difference it makes. The weekly postings have caused me to buy your books and read them, and I must say you crank them out almost at the rate Mortimer J Adler did ...just saying :)
Is there a chance at more fiction in the future? Perhaps not for the substack specifically (though don’t let me stop you from doing that, too) but to be published?
I confess that it’s your fiction I love the most about your writing (please, take no offense, as I mean none). Simply put, your writing (theologically and otherwise) is extraordinary, but your fiction is truly sublime. (Essays about baseball, and the Orioles specifically, come closest to the magnificence of your fiction.)
It's been a great pleasure. I don't think the two people to whom I sent gift subscriptions actually used them, so I will select two other people for the upcoming year.
I first discovered your works five or six years ago. Having gone through the average American public school system, reading The Experience of God was a complete revolution in my life. It's been a beautiful road since then, and so much has been opened up to me I never would've discovered otherwise. The riches, in particular, of Origen, Isaac of Nineveh, and Pseudo-Dionysius have affected me most deeply.
Thank you for pointing the way. I look forward to the year ahead.
I was looking at my Goodreads last night and it occurred to me that I have read more of your books than perhaps any other individual author. Maybe that's a reflection of my youth (or horrible reading habits). But over the years your work has truly been lifechanging for me. Thank you, I can't wait to see what comes next.
Between that picture of Roland in a fedora and enough book recommendations to last a lifetime, who can say they haven't got their money's worth?
It’s refreshing that there’s a substack account that isn’t wholly dedicated to covering politics—from questionable voices—but instead is an outlet for enlightening and sagacious subjects—which, unfortunately, is not the norm.
However, from what I continue to gather in the academic and online and real worlds, your insights are constantly spreading to an ever wider and more curious audience! This is exactly what our fallen Kenoma needs!
P.S. I can’t wait for your upcoming book on consciousness! Once that is published and I have read it, I hope to interview you once again!
I must admit I was not sure what to expect when I signed up but I look forward to the posts. The often sense of imagination, with history, theology, and philosophy I find thougt provoking and yes, entertaining. What you do is an art but more importanlly we come to a better understanding of what it means to be a human and the difference it makes. The weekly postings have caused me to buy your books and read them, and I must say you crank them out almost at the rate Mortimer J Adler did ...just saying :)
Is there a chance at more fiction in the future? Perhaps not for the substack specifically (though don’t let me stop you from doing that, too) but to be published?
I confess that it’s your fiction I love the most about your writing (please, take no offense, as I mean none). Simply put, your writing (theologically and otherwise) is extraordinary, but your fiction is truly sublime. (Essays about baseball, and the Orioles specifically, come closest to the magnificence of your fiction.)
The internet isn't good for much . . . especially, since the publishing industry and Google couldn't figure out how make of all humanity's literature available to everyone: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
. . . but it is a real joy to regularly read and converse with (!) a great thinker and writer.
It's been a great pleasure. I don't think the two people to whom I sent gift subscriptions actually used them, so I will select two other people for the upcoming year.
I first discovered your works five or six years ago. Having gone through the average American public school system, reading The Experience of God was a complete revolution in my life. It's been a beautiful road since then, and so much has been opened up to me I never would've discovered otherwise. The riches, in particular, of Origen, Isaac of Nineveh, and Pseudo-Dionysius have affected me most deeply.
Thank you for pointing the way. I look forward to the year ahead.
Hey DBH is origens homilies the best or are there better?
Your substack is mightily appreciated!
Thank you.