'Templar Paradigm' Content Outline
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{PROLOGOMENA}
“Fantasy”, or ‘High-History’ as catechesis thru/for the Christian Imagination
— Lewis & Tolkien on ‘Story’ (various essays and treatises)
— Veith: Imagination Redeemed (AD.2015)
— Esolen: opening remarks from ‘2018 St Anselm Symposium’
— Radke: “Theology & Fantasy Literature” (AD.2016)
— other various quotes from harvested wisdomThe Arthuriad: the West’s Greatest extra-Biblical Saga
— de Boron/de Troyes/Various: The ‘Grail-Perlesvaux’ cycle (c. AD.12th Century)
— Various: The Vulgate/Post-Vulgate cycle (c. AD.13th-15th Centuries ending with Malory’s compilation and then the 19th & 20th Centuries’ renaissance of the same through Tennyson, Knowles, Pyle, Lancelyn-Green, et al.)
— (the failure) of everything else (except Williams’ War in Heaven)
— Barber: The Figure of Arthur (AD.1990), King Arthur, Hero & Legend (AD.1986), The Holy Grail, Imagination & Belief (AD.2004)The Crusades, the Templars, and Chivalry
— Barber: The Knight and Chivalry (AD.1970), The Reign of Chivalry (AD.2005); Keen: Chivalry (AD.1984)
— Howarth: The Knights Templar (AD.1982); Frale: The Templars (AD.2011), The Templars & the Shroud of Christ (AD.2015); Tibble: Templars, the Knights Who Made Britain (AD.2023)
— Stark: God’s Battalions (AD.2009); Ibrahim: Sword and Scimitar (AD.2018), Defenders of the West (AD.2023); Tyerman: God’s War (AD.2009)
— Riley-Smith: The First Crusaders, 1095-1131 (AD.1997); Rubenstein: Armies of Heaven-The First Crusade & Quest for Apocalypse (AD.2011)
— Nelson: Charlemagne, King and Emperor (AD.2019); Gillingham: Richard the Lionheart (AD.1978); Bartlett: Richard the Lionheart, the Crusader King of England (AD.2018); Asbridge: William Marshal, The Greatest Knight (AD.2014), Barber: Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine (AD.1996)
— Real Crusades History (various videos)Transubstantiation: the original apologia for the Corporeal Presence
— Radke: “The CorpoREAL Presence” (AD.2021)Against Babel-redux: Eph. 6 & II-Cor. 10 reality until the Final Day of the LORD
— Radke: “The Contra-Doctrine of Babel & its Unsacraments”,
“The Dual-ideology of Gehenna”
— what Luther, Dante, Bunyan, Lewis, Tolkien, et al. have to say re. the post-
temporal life
— Lewis: The Pilgrim’s Regress (AD.1933), The Screwtape Letters (AD.1942),
The Abolition of Man (AD.1943), That Hideous Strength (AD.1945)
— Stoker: Dracula (AD.1897)
— Veith: Modern Fascism (AD.1993), Postmodern Times (AD.1994)
— Guinness: Prophetic Untimeliness (AD.2003)
— Fisk: Broken—7 "Christian" Rules That Every Christian Ought to Break as
Often as Possible (AD.2012)
— Ristau: My First Exorcism—What the Devil Taught a Lutheran Pastor about
Counter-cultural Spirituality (AD.2016)
— Esolen: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (AD.2008), Out of the Ashes (AD.2017), Sex and the Unreal City—The Demolition of the Western Mind (AD.2020)
— Tinker: That Hideous Strength—How the West was Lost (AD.2018/20)
— Heston: In the Arena (AD.1995); Capra: The Name Above the Title (AD.1971); Gabler: Walt Disney (AD.2006)
— Cranford: “State-free Marriage” (AD.2022)
— Driscoll: New Days, Old Demons (AD.2023)
— Dusk Lantern: Against False Daos (AD.2023)
» ATTITUDES
Cosmic War/New Spiritual-Knights
Radical Knights —> Radical REDEEMER
Revolutionary Knights —> Revolutionary KING
Follow the Radical Revolutionary
Resources:
“Dream of the Rood” (c. AD.8th Century)
Bernard of Clairvaux: “In Praise of the New Knighthood” (AD.1129)
Gurnall: The Christian in Complete Armour (AD.1655/62)
Stoker: Dracula (AD.1897)
Lewis: The Screwtape Letters (AD.1942), That Hideous Strength (AD.1945)
Wright: Surprised by Hope (AD.2008), Simply Jesus (AD.2011), How GOD Became King (AD.2012)
Rose: Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future (AD.1975)
» IDENTITY
anointed in Holy Baptism —> princes of GOD in Christ
united in Holy Communion —> living stones in a Holy TEMPLE
knighted in Confirmation —> using the POWER of one’s divine royal heritage
Resources:
Psalms 110 & 149 (The Revised Psalter)
John 6, 14-17; I-Cor. 3:16f, 12:12f; I-Peter 2:4f
St. Patrick: “Saint Patrick’s Breastplate” (c. AD.5th Century)
Unknown: High Book of the Grail—Perlesvaux (c. AD. early-13th Century)
Luther: “All One Cake” (AD.1538)
Stoker: Dracula (AD.1897)
Sasse: The Lonely Way (AD.1927/39), We Confess… (AD.1984/86)
Marquart: “Luther & Theosis” (AD.2000)
Fisk: Without Flesh—Why the Church is Dying Even Though Jesus is Still Alive (AD.2020)
Radke: “The CorpoREAL Presence” (AD.2021)
» GIRD UP
to wear armour means confrontation, and GOD’s Armour is complete
ask daily for Wisdom and the Gifts of the Holy SPIRIT, to fight and stand
to ask for the SPIRIT is to ask for the indwelling of Christ JESUS
the call to the Quest of the Holy Grail took place on the Feast of Pentecost
Resources:
Numbers 1; Eph. 6; II-Cor. 10
Isa. 11, 61; I-Cor. 12-14; Romans 12; Ephesians 4
“The Quest of the Holy Grail” (c. AD.13th Century)
Luther: “Against the Heavenly Prophets” (AD.1525)
Gurnall: The Christian in Complete Armour (AD.1655/62)
Stoker: Dracula (AD.1897)
Bruner: A Theology of the Holy Spirit (AD.1970)
Skillet, Creed/Scott Stapp (select songs)
Driscoll: SPIRIT-Filled JESUS (AD.2018)
» CHIVALRY
‘fierce to the n-th’
‘meek to the n-th’
‘next to the Blesséd Sacrament, our neighbor is the next holiest object’
Resources:
Unknown: High Book of the Grail—Perlesvaux (c. AD. early-13th Century)
Ryle: Holiness—Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties and Roots (AD.1877/79)
Thoughts for Young Men (AD.1886)
Lewis: “The Necessity of Chivalry” (AD.1940); “The Weight of Glory” (AD.1941)
Bonhoeffer: Discipleship (AD.1937)
Keen: Chivalry (AD.1984)
Scruton: The Soul of the World (AD.2014)
Radke: “On Chivalry as an Approach to Christian Ethics” (AD.2020)
» HOPEFULS—HABITUS
regular, joyful engagement with the WORD
regular, joyful singing of hymns
regular, joyful praying of the Psalter
regular, joyful reception of the Holy Sacrament
Resources:
Deut. 10-11, 28-30; Psalm 119 (The Revised Psalter); Hebrews 10
Luther: The Catechisms (AD.1518/29)
Gurnall: The Christian in Complete Armour (AD.1655/62)
Ryle: Holiness—Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties and Roots (AD.1877/79)
Bonhoeffer: Life Together (AD.1939); The Psalms—The Prayer Book of the Bible (AD.1940)
Peters: Commentary on Luther’s Catechisms (AD.1990/94)
Ratzinger: The Spirit of the Liturgy (A.D. 2000)
Kleinig: Grace Upon Grace—Spirituality for Today (AD.2008)
Fisk: Echo—Unbroken Truth. Worth Repeating. Again. (AD.2018)
» VOCATIONAL VIGILS
in the Home
(Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress–AD.1678/84; Stoker: Dracula–AD.1897)in the Church
(Bernanos: Diary of a Country Priest–AD.1936; Lewis: Screwtape Letters–AD.1942)in the Community
(High Book of the Grail—Perlesvaux–AD.1205; Lewis: That Hideous Strength–AD.1945)
Resources:
Psalm 127 & others (The Revised Psalter)
Epistles of Jude & II-John
”The Magdeburg Confession” (AD.1550)
Cervantes: Don Quixote (AD.1605/15)
Gurnall: The Christian in Complete Armour (AD.1655/62)
Bunyan: The Holy War—The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Man-soul (AD.1682)
Lewis: The Pilgrim’s Regress (AD.1933), and other select essays & treatises
Bonhoeffer: Life Together (AD.1939), Ethics (AD.1949)
Wright: Surprised by Hope (AD.2008), Simply Jesus (AD.2011), How GOD Became King (AD.2012)
Veith: Modern Fascism (AD.1993), God at Work (AD.2011), Post-Christian (AD.2020)
Guinness: Prophetic Untimeliness (AD.2003), Fool’s Talk—Recovering the Art
of Christian Persuasion (AD.2015)
Esolen: Western Civilization—What PC Professors Don’t Want You to Know (AD.2008), Ten Ways
to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (AD.2013), How the Church Has Changed
the World (AD.2013/21), Defending Marriage—Twelve Arguments for Sanity (AD.2014),
Out of the Ashes (AD.2017), Defending Boyhood—Forts, Stories, Baseball, and Praying (AD.2019),
Sex and the Unreal City—The Demolition of the Western Mind (AD.2020), No Apologies—Why
Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men (AD.2022)
Ristau: My First Exorcism—What the Devil Taught a Lutheran Pastor about
Counter-cultural Spirituality (AD.2016)
Fisk: Broken—7 "Christian" Rules That Every Christian Ought to Break as
Often as Possible (AD.2012)
Tinker: That Hideous Strength—How the West was Lost (AD.2018/20)
Driscoll: Win Your War (AD.2019)
Radke: “The CorpoREAL Presence” (AD.2021)
Cranford: “State-free Marriage” (AD.2022)
» SACRAMENTAL COSMIC REALITY
Bethlehem
Jericho
Gethsemane
Calvary
Holy Sepulcher
Mount Olivet
Jerusalem
ZION
Resources:
The BIBLE (many & various selections)
Luther: ‘Two Confessions on the LORD’s Supper’ (AD.1527/28), The Large Catechism (AD.1529),
“All One Cake” (AD.1538)
Löhe: Sermons on the LORD’s Supper (AD.1866)
Fisk: Without Flesh—Why the Church is Dying Even Though Jesus is Still Alive (AD.2020)
Ratzinger: Jesus of Nazareth (3-vols., AD.2007/12)
Stephenson: The Lord’s Supper (AD.2003)
von Schenk: The Presence—An Approach to the Holy Communion (AD.1945)
Sasse: The Lonely Way (AD.1927/39), We Confess… (AD.1984/86)
Dix: The Shape of the Liturgy (AD.1945)
Schmemann: The Eucharist (AD.1987)
Wright: Surprised by Hope (AD.2008), Simply Jesus (AD.2011), How GOD Became King (AD.2012)
Radke: “The CorpoREAL Presence” (AD.2021)
Wainwright: Eucharist and Eschatology (AD.1971)
» THE ART OF DYING-TO-LIVE
‘All Hallows Eve’ —> pondering the reality of the Vale of Death’s Shadow
‘All Saints’ —> edification by the Ecclesia Triumphans
‘All Souls’ —> preparing for the next part of the Adventure