Bruce Gore on the Ambrose and Augustine Era

Based on watching Bruce Gore´s lecture series, now in Church History, episode on Ambrose: Green Peacemst Green Peacemst 0 seconds ago I´m enjoying Bruce´s lectures. However, his brilliant historical insight and combination of ministerial insights is orthodox. I didn´t have the luxury of his cultural enmeshment, having two foreign-born parents, which I´m grateful for. America´s good points, unfortunately, are fundamentally balanced by bad points that are reinforced by the morality Bruce id´d as "Might makes right." While Fundamentalists have been funded by profiteering corp execs, Mainstream denominations have their own problems of acquiescence to that very profiteering system and its indoctrination. FDR and Eleanor make a nice point of reference, since they ushered in a pro-social collection of policies. The Cold War´s combination of militarism converged with a wayward minister, however, told in K Kruse´s One Nation Under God, and corp execs ready and willing to fund right wing ideology and theology. The UN that FDR envisioned and that Eleanor shepherded for human rights, has sustained its status beacon of human rights, and now sustainability. Barack Obama´s election showed what a contrast exists between now and FDR´s day. Obama´s excellence of character was mostly stymied, although he floated a few visionary elements like the Green Jobs coordinator. Whereas Bruce calls Anthony of the Desert a bit of an offbeat character, while finding praise for him, I was rewarded with my discovery of the man who first made Christian spiritual practice tangible. In this lecture, Ambrose´s path is emphasized for his dedicated study after being appointed, when his character that made him so attractive and led to his uncommon appointment. Basil of Caesarea would make an interesting comparison, also for Eastern monasticism. The implications for modernity, too. The fact that the "church" has been riven, that the result has been religious freedom´s spiritual tools in University-based networks, not least of all, with Universities own roots in monastic schools that lead back to no one else than Anthony OTD. Dogma? Is it dogma of Jesus´ "divinity" that is holding people prisoner to the usurper American profiteering corp execs? If ideological atheists and humanist extremists are erring on the side of anti-religious bigotry and metaphysics, it is the examples of the anti-slavery abolition pioneers that helps clarify a few things. The spiritual practice of the Quaker Friends accompanied a high integrity and modernized doctrine that led to their reputation of high integrity. A college educated Anglican sought them out for their anti-slavery reputation, and with their anchoring, led the building of a citizen movement that succeeded in the UK, along with the US North. Bruce, if you read this, and friends, I have followed my path through Unitarian Universalism, something like the Bahai that Bruce mentions. UUism itself was a step in modernization to interfaith principles that has many failings in practice. I´ve taken my UUism based path through denominations like the Quakers to now call myself an interfaith UU Christian based on the imperative to deconstruct the corporate-consumer culture for sustainability. That is the convergence of Jesus´ legacy in University-based society, social movements like abolition and FDR´s heritage in the Social Gospel, Eleanor´s in Jane Addam´s settlement houses, and their UN legacy. The Presbyterian church itself has the journal Unbound.