Anne M. Carpenter
@catholickungfu.bsky.social
Professor at SLU | Balthasar, Blondel, Péguy, Lonergan | théologienne, monstre | pensées sont en rapport avec la vie de l'âme
I like St. Louis fine, but every time I pass through Chicago it’s like
(city) vs. (CITY)
(city) vs. (CITY)
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I like St. Louis fine, but every time I pass through Chicago it’s like
(city) vs. (CITY)
(city) vs. (CITY)
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To the extent we’re confused about judgment, we’ll be confused about persons, metaphysically speaking anyway
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
To the extent we’re confused about judgment, we’ll be confused about persons, metaphysically speaking anyway
“Man is personal, transcending the world and its being. The personal is more than being, which is predicable of a multiplicity of things; it is unique. … [T]he person does not disappear into the race, however the total final purpose [of man] is interpreted [to be].”
HUvB
HUvB
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“Man is personal, transcending the world and its being. The personal is more than being, which is predicable of a multiplicity of things; it is unique. … [T]he person does not disappear into the race, however the total final purpose [of man] is interpreted [to be].”
HUvB
HUvB
I’ve written about Balthasar so often and for so long that it’s a very comfortable mental space to occupy. The writing is easier, the authorial voice more confident and simpler to command. I do other things, obviously, but once people know you do a thing they often ask you to do it again.
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I’ve written about Balthasar so often and for so long that it’s a very comfortable mental space to occupy. The writing is easier, the authorial voice more confident and simpler to command. I do other things, obviously, but once people know you do a thing they often ask you to do it again.
Wuthering Heights movie from a controversial director starring Margot Robbie with a soundtrack from Charlie xcx? Hollywood, you’re still fun and insane sometimes. And we’ve got an Odyssey movie coming up. The Western canon still going strong, even if weirdly, despite rumors of its imminent death.
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Wuthering Heights movie from a controversial director starring Margot Robbie with a soundtrack from Charlie xcx? Hollywood, you’re still fun and insane sometimes. And we’ve got an Odyssey movie coming up. The Western canon still going strong, even if weirdly, despite rumors of its imminent death.
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
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This trailer blew up in my childhood like a ton of TNT.
Treize's line "I'm sure God would understand the steps we're taking" is very applicable to American politics and I often refer to it.
Gundam Wing: Endless Duel is also one of the best fighting games on the Super Nintendo. Maybe on Switch.
Treize's line "I'm sure God would understand the steps we're taking" is very applicable to American politics and I often refer to it.
Gundam Wing: Endless Duel is also one of the best fighting games on the Super Nintendo. Maybe on Switch.
Gundam Wing Remastered Trailer | Toonami 25th Anniversary
YouTube video by Adult Swim
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November 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This trailer blew up in my childhood like a ton of TNT.
Treize's line "I'm sure God would understand the steps we're taking" is very applicable to American politics and I often refer to it.
Gundam Wing: Endless Duel is also one of the best fighting games on the Super Nintendo. Maybe on Switch.
Treize's line "I'm sure God would understand the steps we're taking" is very applicable to American politics and I often refer to it.
Gundam Wing: Endless Duel is also one of the best fighting games on the Super Nintendo. Maybe on Switch.
My therapist doesn’t let me get all professory too much but today she was feeling generous or something because I was allowed to explain the cosmic hierarchy of being at some length. I am a normal person worried about everyday things. Such as: how the cosmos is organized.
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My therapist doesn’t let me get all professory too much but today she was feeling generous or something because I was allowed to explain the cosmic hierarchy of being at some length. I am a normal person worried about everyday things. Such as: how the cosmos is organized.
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Responsibly serving the process of another’s relationship with Christ, and thereby their living and memorable discoveries of beauty, goodness, and truth, is exactly the disposition St Ignatius counsels for a giver of the Spiritual Exercises. And the giver must also always be open to being surprised.
Balthasar, Theo-Logic vol. 1.
He wants to maintain a notion of truth. He doesn’t want that notion to mean domination.
He wants to maintain a notion of truth. He doesn’t want that notion to mean domination.
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Responsibly serving the process of another’s relationship with Christ, and thereby their living and memorable discoveries of beauty, goodness, and truth, is exactly the disposition St Ignatius counsels for a giver of the Spiritual Exercises. And the giver must also always be open to being surprised.
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Transpose branch office into brand name, yielding a Balthasarian critique of contemporary Catholic YouTube social influencing and apologetics.
“He will take pains not to convert the Thou into a sort of branch office of his own truth but will rather take the utmost care to ensure the other’s freedom to attain to the truth that befits him and his situation.”
Balthasar, Theo-Logic vol. 1.
He wants to maintain a notion of truth. He doesn’t want that notion to mean domination.
He wants to maintain a notion of truth. He doesn’t want that notion to mean domination.
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Transpose branch office into brand name, yielding a Balthasarian critique of contemporary Catholic YouTube social influencing and apologetics.
Reposted by Anne M. Carpenter
Gandamu~
a close up of a cartoon character 's face with the number 3 visible in the corner
Alt: Heero using the button
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Gandamu~
Every time I hear a presentation on the Church Fathers, I think I should’ve gone into Patristics. My Greek and Latin were never good enough. But gosh do I adore learning from the Fathers.
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Every time I hear a presentation on the Church Fathers, I think I should’ve gone into Patristics. My Greek and Latin were never good enough. But gosh do I adore learning from the Fathers.
“He will take pains not to convert the Thou into a sort of branch office of his own truth but will rather take the utmost care to ensure the other’s freedom to attain to the truth that befits him and his situation.”
Balthasar, Theo-Logic vol. 1.
He wants to maintain a notion of truth. He doesn’t want that notion to mean domination.
He wants to maintain a notion of truth. He doesn’t want that notion to mean domination.
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“He will take pains not to convert the Thou into a sort of branch office of his own truth but will rather take the utmost care to ensure the other’s freedom to attain to the truth that befits him and his situation.”
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And questions of exercising tolerance and kindness as we strive to live together peacefully in a diverse, pluralistic society. Respecting different cultures that make up a single community.
A bit part of self-transcendence is recognizing the freedom of other people and not seeking to control them.
A bit part of self-transcendence is recognizing the freedom of other people and not seeking to control them.
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
And questions of exercising tolerance and kindness as we strive to live together peacefully in a diverse, pluralistic society. Respecting different cultures that make up a single community.
A bit part of self-transcendence is recognizing the freedom of other people and not seeking to control them.
A bit part of self-transcendence is recognizing the freedom of other people and not seeking to control them.
fwiw we mostly keep trying to common sense gender fights, which is mostly how we experience the thing (ie bathrooms, clothing), but we’re leaving aside questions of self-transcendence to our detriment.
In a very practical way, CS Lewis is illustrating how propriety and modesty are functions of common sense, enabling legibility in a context, whereas virtues (like chastity) enable self-transcendence.
Regarding behavior, there's a chapter on sexual morality that begins with one of the least popular Christian virtues: modesty. Here's what CS Lewis had to say:
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
fwiw we mostly keep trying to common sense gender fights, which is mostly how we experience the thing (ie bathrooms, clothing), but we’re leaving aside questions of self-transcendence to our detriment.
In a very practical way, CS Lewis is illustrating how propriety and modesty are functions of common sense, enabling legibility in a context, whereas virtues (like chastity) enable self-transcendence.
Regarding behavior, there's a chapter on sexual morality that begins with one of the least popular Christian virtues: modesty. Here's what CS Lewis had to say:
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
In a very practical way, CS Lewis is illustrating how propriety and modesty are functions of common sense, enabling legibility in a context, whereas virtues (like chastity) enable self-transcendence.
Reposted by Anne M. Carpenter
2 Pet 1,4
… ut per hæc efficiámini divínæ consórtes natúræ, fugiéntes eam, quæ in mundo est in concupiscéntia, corruptiónem;
… podéis escapar de la corrupción, que reina en el mundo por la ambición, y participar del mismo ser de Dios.
… ut per hæc efficiámini divínæ consórtes natúræ, fugiéntes eam, quæ in mundo est in concupiscéntia, corruptiónem;
… podéis escapar de la corrupción, que reina en el mundo por la ambición, y participar del mismo ser de Dios.
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
2 Pet 1,4
… ut per hæc efficiámini divínæ consórtes natúræ, fugiéntes eam, quæ in mundo est in concupiscéntia, corruptiónem;
… podéis escapar de la corrupción, que reina en el mundo por la ambición, y participar del mismo ser de Dios.
… ut per hæc efficiámini divínæ consórtes natúræ, fugiéntes eam, quæ in mundo est in concupiscéntia, corruptiónem;
… podéis escapar de la corrupción, que reina en el mundo por la ambición, y participar del mismo ser de Dios.
Überzeitlichkeit is such a fun word to sort of invent. I don’t always know what my guy is doing with eternity but it’s always fun.
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HUvB strikes again:
Just when reading „Grain of Wheat“ you think: This book is 80 years old and still soooo good - you come across this :
HUvB strikes again:
Just when reading „Grain of Wheat“ you think: This book is 80 years old and still soooo good - you come across this :
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Überzeitlichkeit is such a fun word to sort of invent. I don’t always know what my guy is doing with eternity but it’s always fun.
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A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
We get to start Antigone in class tomorrow. tbh I might just do stage setting so we understand the stakes. …and to sayI forgot I was assigning paper presentations, so they get those points for free. We won’t suffer for my sins but I will insist on discussing the virtue of fidelity in Sophocles.
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
We get to start Antigone in class tomorrow. tbh I might just do stage setting so we understand the stakes. …and to sayI forgot I was assigning paper presentations, so they get those points for free. We won’t suffer for my sins but I will insist on discussing the virtue of fidelity in Sophocles.
man this Trumpian Ukraine peace deal is stupid and evil
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
man this Trumpian Ukraine peace deal is stupid and evil
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"The American Way? Pah! A mere group bias, sure to fall to my new kingdom of Cosmopolis!"
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"The American Way? Pah! A mere group bias, sure to fall to my new kingdom of Cosmopolis!"
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Integralists seem to make the (frankly quite intuitive) mistake of thinking that cultures & societies sublate, & so order persons.
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
lol. amen!
I’ve gotten…obsessed with the social order question in part because I think (writing it now) Ratzinger’s habilitation is actually contributing quite intentionally towards a vision of social order (but not in an integralist way. integralists just get order so wrong)
I’ve gotten…obsessed with the social order question in part because I think (writing it now) Ratzinger’s habilitation is actually contributing quite intentionally towards a vision of social order (but not in an integralist way. integralists just get order so wrong)
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Integralists seem to make the (frankly quite intuitive) mistake of thinking that cultures & societies sublate, & so order persons.
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
side note but a while ago a friend explained to me that Lonergan’s “good of order” is just his phrase for the common good and it was so obvious and so helpful that I got mad for a good fifteen minutes
The Church: You ever think about how there aren’t just individual goods but also a genuinely distinct good of order by which certain goods systematically recur?
me: No.
The Church: Well guess what.
me: No.
The Church: Well guess what.
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
side note but a while ago a friend explained to me that Lonergan’s “good of order” is just his phrase for the common good and it was so obvious and so helpful that I got mad for a good fifteen minutes