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BriefSummaryOfGardner
First, the complete cross of reality
The Complete Cross of Reality is a diagram at the end of
‘Beyond Belief’. It starts at the southwest corner of a square, and heads east.
Thou. This is the
Forward/Imperative. It heads north as
the In/Subjective (I) , the west as the Back/Narrative (We), and south as the
Out/Objective (They).
This is BRIEF. For
the full wonderfulness, please see the book.
[Yes, I have the same structure in The Pella Square. We both got it, somehow, from
Rosenstock-Huessy. I emphasize the historical and liturgical aspects, and mine
can go both backward and forward as I seek a solution to discipling a
community. Matthew 28. The solution is
to get oneself into the position that a shepherd is in when, after leading
through the service, he sends the flock out with a command—in my case, a
specific set of commands that summarizes this history, and fulfills the name of
the community.]
Second, the revolutions of the West
This is Chapter 5 of ‘Beyond Belief. My summaries will be too short.
Here are the revolutions: Papal, German, English, American,
French, Russian.
‘Revolutions do nothing but readjust the equation between
heart-power and the social order. They bring about the Kingdom of God
Each went through
four phases.
Imperative. Each
revolution’ leaders felt called as a Thou..
Subjective reply: New
speech, new persons, new Is.
Narrative/history,
new institutions founded by these new persons. We.
Objective. These new became commonplace in the nation
and over the planet. They
This is a recapitulation of any significant human experience, as we see
in
The Cross of Reality.
The Papal Revolution.
Gregory VII. 1076. It wound up the clock spring to which the others
responded, releasing the energy. (The power of the Church over Europe ’s kings and emperors—CH: Investiture, who would
appoint the bishops?) This was a unified planetary institution aimed at converting
and liberating the whole human race. Crusades, universities, cathedrals, the
beginning of science…world history.
1517, 1649, 1776,
1789, 1917. Each leaves unfinished businees, each shows how the Holy Spirit
acts in history, as our gift of speech, as our gift of high speech that calls
us to a new future.
The Papal Revolution
(1076) Imperative: Realize the Kingdom
of God
New Speech. Theology (argumentation) and prayer, via plainchant
and more elaborate worship.
New Persons: Crusaders, Franciscans, Dominicans, members of
craft guilds, university professors, captains of sailing/exploring ships over
the whole world.
New Institutions:
Where the above worked.
Result: Christendom in Western Europe
with outposts over the whole planet.
The German Revolution
(1517). Freedom of conscience. New life in the secular world. Individual
believer free from dictates of Rome ,
which was no longer a source of renewal.
New Speech: Secular literature, music and are, plus the
Bible in the vernacular. Experimental science.
New Persons: Hymn writers, musicians, artists, public school
teachers, civil servants, scientists and
academics. Conscientious laymen, secular priests, who felt themselves
equal to pastors.
New Institutions: Especially public schools, civil service,
and academies.
Results: Public education, scientific investigation,
bureaucracies (civil service as religious position in country—as non-corrupt).
The British
Parliamentary Revolutions (1649-1688). Imperative: Political freedom.
Freeing the civil society from the dictates of kings and princes (Cromwell)—and
from lingering royal and Catholic influence.
New Speech: Law, debate, argument.
New Persons: Aristocratic gentlemen, lawyers, parliamentarians.
New Institutions: Parliaments and courts.
Results: Over the planets, parliamentary democracies, states
under the rule of law, reliable legal systems. (Commonwealth—Chancellor no
longer needs to alternate between Church and State, but Commonwealth is
united).
The French Revolution
(1789). Imperative: Elevate the bourgeois citizen to power—liberty,
equality, fraternity. Free from church and king. Bourgeois entrepreneur, and
Reason, rule.
New Speech: National literature and arts. Journalism.
New Persons: Entrepreneur, and novelists, newspapermen,
experimental scientists.
New Institutions: Corporations, newspapers, institutes of
technology.
Results: Capitalism, competitive markets, free enterprise,
free press, planetarily.
The American Revolution
(1776). Drawn from both French and English. Christian-inspired English
combined with anti-Christian Enlightenment of the French.
New Speech and New Persons, as in the English and French.
The Russian
Revolution (1917). Imperative: Freedom from economic exploitation.
New Speech: Quantitative.
New Persons: Proletarian (including union workers).
New Institutions. Soviet union ,
dictatorship. Western democracies: Government agencies that sought to control
national economies and to prevent exploitation of labor.
Result: Industrialized Russia , elsewhere: Social democracy
with alphabet bureaucratic agencies.
Rosenstock-Huessy wrote that all revolutions recreate both public law,
and private manners, and lie between them in an open immediacy. Thus are hated.
The Planetary
Revolution (1945, Forward). ERH in Christian Future—We will live for
centuries in the fields of force of these revolutions. The world wars had ended the 1000 years of
(CH: this kind of ) Christendom. Negative side of revolutions: World Wars.
Positive side: All brought together, all strands. ERH: Great Society heir of
Church and State. (CH: Elsewhere in Universal History 1954, ERH says that our
challenge is to gain the small, enthusiastic groups of the tribes, without the
perpetual warfare, as the Church glorified Israel by gaining inclusiveness, and
the State got rid of the slavery of the Empires—Greece should remain a
companion, never a social order, ERH said and wrote)
Imperatives, then:
‘…work toward the emancipation of all humankind by achieving freedom of
conscience, political freedom, freedom of individual enterprise, and freedom
from economic exploitation. …)
In the Third Millennium, it is the Spirit, Who has always
been at work, that unifies.
Christianity has been now expressing Herself (CH) in more
secular language, and is oriented toward change, not the past (alone). Constant renewal, freeing the captives,
active outside the church). New Heaven and New Earth. ‘Christianity created
today’s one world, our global society.’
CHH's 4. Full Count of the Tribes, The Symphony Of History [(Comprehensive) History (Interactive), PellaSquare/How To Make Your Communities Better, House Of Singing Times/Calendar of Peace Priming.
ReplyDelete153 Culture, and Godparents for Eldsters/Society, added Novermber 5, A. D. 2015. Now concentrating on the spread planet-wide through an app, which means Opus 150 using SingANewEra! as basis--150 is 'A Book In Search Of An App'
DeleteAdd North’s Rolling Fives of History (Crossed Fingers) to Revolutions of the West.
ReplyDeleteFrancis: Necessary, Possible, Impossible (Little Elvises)
Necessary—Do Full Count Of The Tribes.
Possible—‘Default’ Income Stream(s)
Add: See Jim Jordan's 'Crisis, Opportunity, and the Christian Future' for his 'Law, Lyric, Evaluation, Fact' sequence. 2 and 3 would be switched. Godparents for Eldsters would be half of the next institution, I claim, in this scenario, along with the four of mine above--FCOT, TSOH, PS, HOST. See here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nursing-Home-Godparents-For-Eldsters-Compassion-Ministry/487242587986964 and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTmNj56vF_A and here: http://godparentsforeldsters.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteHost16084The153TribesCultureCouldBeNDimensional
ReplyDeleteNot with boundaries, not roaming areas that can be staked out as farms, not exactly ‘go,’ because there are more tribes, but inter-penetrating, kind of perichoretic, advances over 5th columnists, spies, etc.
Could peace be more possible because when a netter (floater in the network, not tied to a place) hurts part ot the net or other netters, he hurts all, including himself?
Some vision of a spider web sending signals, not just to one spider, but to many along ‘net,’ the web?
Maybe it is many types of organizations. Maybe NO organization should violate ‘rights,’ as we know them. Tribes were in perpetual war. According to the victory/house-building pattern, the best parts of previous social orders are kept in succeeding ones. Division of labor is one of those, and communication among all.
ReplyDeletehttp://wakeup-world.com/2013/10/26/participatory-democracy-why-we-need-to-go-tribal-again/
Yes, in Rosenstock's 'Magna Carta Latina' was the first I'd heard or read of it. He claims that Latin verbs are built up from an imperative stem. That is, the first part of language is command. This fits with his Imperative-Subjective-Narrative-Objective view of the process of social transformation (compare being Called into worship). God said 'Let there be...,' but that was not, or was it, imperative. I know Moses was only supposed to speak to the rock for water, and was not supposed to hit it. These are linguistic archeology things.
ReplyDeleteLove in King Jesus,
Chuck
PS: I should run this through my work, esp. the calendar. I think the key would be that naming something is 1/2 an imperative.