Have you received the CSL 2012 calendar yet? Instead of complaining about it, let's make it a game. The game is: spot the errors, in doctrine, practice, or fact. I'll go first: nice picture for February, Alma Mater! Thanks for supporting classic, traditional, Methodist practice!
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Well, Peter Martyr, whose Defensio de Eucharist is prominently featured on the cover, is not exactly a stellar example of Lutheran orthodoxy, as he became, I believe, a Calvinist. But I imagine that the photographer just wanted to picture old books.
ReplyDeleteat least the csl calendar has something resembling a sacrament. unless i'm mistaken, the cts calendar doesn't. i miss the first cts calendar that came out.
ReplyDeleteAlas, these calendars are sent as much to generate donors as much as anything else and what resonates with donors does not sit well with much of the rest of us, esp. Gottesdienst folks...
ReplyDeleteI always use whichever calendar is most explicitly religious. The last two years the winner has been neither seminary. We have used the Thrivent one.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to start buying kitten calendars at Staples instead of using the corporate handouts. CTS - ugh. Don't really want it on the wall anymore . . .
ReplyDeleteA point for Fr. Anderson!
ReplyDeleteBut there is at least one more. . .
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Your own library must be pristine. I assume you don't do any theological research that involves researching heresy from source documents--and you didn't do any while you were in the seminary, either. And surely a seminary library must be able to provide such source documents to its students. We confess and we *reject*, but isn't it nice to know what you're rejecting?
ReplyDeleteDon't come visit my study, please. I have a copy of Dianetics, the Book of Mormon, and even a few Watchtower books. Not to mention Braaten and Jensen, Jungmann's "The Mass of the Roman Rite" and much more that isn't Synodically approved. And David Luecke. And a whole bunch of other stuff that isn't kosher Lutheran stuff but helps me to understand the theological landscape.
It's a *picture*, not an endorsement.
I admit I am color weak, but what Liturgical day/season is the stole in one of the inset pictures for February?
ReplyDeleteLooks like that kid in April needs to be in kiddie services at the local protestant church. If the chidren's sermon is over I guess it's time for coloring. How about a picture of a parent engaging their child in the divine service.
The Paschal Candle in March when the Resurrection is in April?
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ReplyDeleteFr. Kornacki: Peace, peace! I was just going along with Fr. Curtis' Humourous Premise. If you want to play of game of who has the most evil book in his library, I probably would win. I have the Rosicrucian Manual right here.
ReplyDeleteFr. Hojnacki - not bad! I had missed that one.
ReplyDeleteGary Hall - it could be Feb 2, Candlemas. But you are on the right track - there is at least one more glaring color error.
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Why all the hatred for the CTS calendar? It's the CTS calendar. They have pictures of CTS. They show the chapel, the library, the faculty, the students. It's showing off the campus....because it's the CTS calendar. There's nothing wrong with it. There's nothing offensive. It's a calendar about the school....because it's the school's calendar.
ReplyDeleteI don't care if you use it or not, but it's certainly not worthy of the vitriol being spilled over it here.
Mercy! Let's grow a little thicker skin here, brothers. Or shall we shed a tear for poor, poor CTS. No one is violating the 8th Commandment or "spilling vitriol," for goodness sake. Fr. Curtis is simply pointing a legitimately critical eye (and a humorous one) at a seminary calendar. If it is only a “picture” and just a “calendar,” then chill! On the other hand, if the shoe fits here in some way, then wear it and laugh. If we have here some theological gaffes, then they need to say “oops, sorry folks” and do better next time; and if not, maybe they could explain their reasons for the selections and tell Heath where to get off. I’ve heard it not a few times, even about me, and now I’m saying it: “What is it about these Lutheran pastors?” Or do we take ourselves way too seriously? Pax.
ReplyDeleteFr. Curtis was making observations regarding the CSL calendar. Others then made comments concerning the CTS calendar such as, "I always use whichever calendar is most explicitly religious. The last two years the winner has been neither seminary. We have used the Thrivent one." and "at least the csl calendar has something resembling a sacrament. unless i'm mistaken, the cts calendar doesn't." and "I'm going to start buying kitten calendars at Staples instead of using the corporate handouts. CTS - ugh. Don't really want it on the wall anymore . . ."
ReplyDeleteThis isn't a matter of having thick skin or not. In fact, I specifically stated that I don't care if the calendars are used or not.
I have no opinions either way for the CSL calendar as I have never seen it. However, the CTS calendar is quite appropriate because (like I said previously) it is the calendar that is advertising and promoting CTS. It does this through showing pictures of the campus. It's not a disgusting, revolting, heretical, or any such type of calendar. And it's not meant to be a theological treatise. It's a calendar showing pictures of CTS. I'm not sure why that's offensive to some, but apparently it is. Again, I don't care if they use it or not. But seriously, is it worth saying "ugh" over having pictures of the campus up on the wall?
For some, apparently so.
That's my point.
Mine just arrived today. Where are the historic pericopes?
ReplyDeleteFinally got to see the calendar everyone is complaining about... my wife said about the cover, "who would know?" and I responded, "They should have." But on the whole the pix are very purtty...
ReplyDeleteI just got the calendar... I'm glad they included the United Methodist cross logo in the month of March. Why don't we have something cool like that?
ReplyDeleteYou boys have too much time on your hands! "Strive to excel in gifts that build up the church" (1 Corinthians 14:12)
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