Christian theology is not only a detached exercise of the Christian intellect; it is the life of the Body in which Truth is both thought out and lived out.
A. Michael Ramsey, The Gospel and the Catholic Church (1936)
Experience teaches us that leading a Catholic life today is only possible where the mystery has retained its complete depth, where dogmas are not perceived as problems, are curtailed in their essential dimensions and reduced to purely human understanding, or where secondary forms of tradition are not selected as criteria for affiliation with the Church… Only by assuming a non-polemic role of tranquility in the center will it be possible to assume genuine responsibility for the while.
Here tensions can be addressed that are characteristic if all living things – including the Church of Christ – which are not necessarily cause for alarm: tensions between the spirit of Pentecost and the institution, between personal and ecclesial conscience, and the like…
[We wish] to help clarify the issues that confront the contemporary Christian by utilizing the shining depths of our common faith and, in so doing, to counteract the widespread feelings of uncertainty.
Hans Urs von Balthasar, “The Mission of Communio” (1978-1979)
Welcome to The Land of Unlikeness. We are a group of Catholic Anglicans and Catholics working together to explore and illuminate the cultural issues that challenge unity and peace in the world. We understand culture holistically, and thus focus not only on religion, but also art, politics, science, law, and language, among others.
We have been formed by sacramental and daily worship. We are orthodox and catholic in our outlook, and we tread boldly into politics, psychoanalysis, theater, film, science, literature, pop culture, and (especially) theology. We welcome your comments, criticism and praise.
Editors
D.W. McClain: A sometime resident of Philadelphia and the District of Columbia, DWM studies and teaches in Theology and Aesthetics at the Catholic University of America and Loyola College in Baltimore. He occasionally finds time to watch tv and film and is eagerly anticipating the day when he can afford the entire Criterion Collection.
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Curriculum Vitae
A.D.: A.D. is a musician and professor in Philadelphia. He is thinking and writing about Lacan and Bulgakov. Contact A.D.
You can listen to the music of Good Dust here: www.myspace.com/gooddust
You can listen to the music of Amy Pickard & the Cradlers here: www.myspace.com/amypickard
Contributors
Darkness Whistler (Greg Voiles) is a Hillbilly Thomist from middle TN and a Ph.D Student at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC focusing in Christiian Spirituality and Historical Theology. He thinks that a healthy urban neighborhood is a lot like a small town and that a life without dance, laughter, Beauty, and Old Speckled Hen is not likely to deserve to be called such.
Lana Pilogrusa has lived most of her life in or around Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. She currently teaches in a modern languages department and writes poetry. Some favorite books recently read or re-read: Chekhov’s short stories, stories from the collection *Demonology* by Rick Moody, Jonathan Franzen’s *Corrections,* and Charles Simic’s prose poems from *The World Doesn’t End.*
Jefe lives and writes in Washington, D.C.
The Land of Unlikeness welcomes guest contributions on a wide range of topics and view points. We will include information about the authors/artists as we are provided. For more information on contributing or TLOU’s authors, please email our editors at editor@thelandofunlikeness.com
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