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- From: Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Tim)
- Sender: FredGate@ocitor.fidonet
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- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
- Message-ID: <725602511.F00001@ocitor.fidonet>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:12:50
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- G> > I recommend to your attention a very good (and thick) book, *La
- G> > Tradition et Les Traditions" by Yves Congar, OP (available in English
- ^^
- G> > translation for the culturally challenged). Ignore the theological
- G> > essay if you wish (although it would profit much to read it); the
- G> > historical essay alone is well worth digesting.
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- G> I've read a collection of essays edited by Martin Redfern (?),
- G> but not this. Is Congar still alive, incidentally? She must be in
- G> her eighties or nineties by now...
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- "He" (last time I looked, the Dominicans didn't ordain women...)
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- G> > G> Does that mean you think the SCA should intentionally steer its own
- G> > G> heraldic style to be like this, or that's just where your
- G> > G> aesthetic ideals lie?
- G> >
- G> > Both. As anyone in the College of Arms can tell you, the congruence
- G> > between my aesthetic ideals and how God intended things to be
- G> > asymptotically approaches identity. 8-)
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- G> ...and I'm sure I don't need to mention that the society is far too
- G> full of the rugged individualist type for this kind of forced
- G> restriction to ever gain widespread support ...
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- Even though I keep pointing out that rugged individualism isn't very
- Period, either...
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- G> I am impressed that you credit God with such good aesthetics, though...
- G> :-)
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- Oh, I have plenty of problems with God's aesthetics - look at any ten
- Laurels picked at random - but His *intentions* are good...
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- Tadhg, Obelisk
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- * Origin: Herald's Point * Steppes/Ansteorra * 214-699-0057 (1:124/4229)
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