“I think people want to see true academics and they want to get rid of some of the political window dressing that seems to accompany all this,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Bradenton, adding that critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion programs, known as DEI, would get “no funding, and that will wither on the vine.”
This is what I envisioned would be the fate of Oregon if Christine Drazen was elected – with Phil Knight’s help. Have you read the above declaration by DeSantis? Do you see anything – wrong with it? The Governor of Florida got rid of all Democrats – and replaced them with Republicans – who are for some reason – NOT POLITICAL!!!! What? How did that happen? I warned you this day was coming! Protecting Religious Rights has become synonymous with protecting the Republican Party – founded by my kindred – John Fremont! How many times do I got to say this.
My old liberal friends, the Galls, thought I was bragging. They got religion and thought they get to make up a great Believer Shake in their Special Person Blender. I warned them about the coming of Christian Nationalism – twenty-five years ago! I sent Mark Gall my posts on my alleged ancestor, Gottschalk Rosemondt, the Master of Louvain, who defended Erasmus. from the slander of a Inquisitor. Do you know the history of the Reformation, and the oppression of this NEW RELIGION by the Papacy? Recently, the Christian Coalition made peace with Catholic Leaders, and agreed the Democrats will be the REPLACEMENT of their murderous hatred of one another. They wont know – what hit them! There have been Christian Think Tanks for over two thousand years. Learn about this, and be prepared to talk about Anti-Protestanism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Protestantism
DeSantis said teaching Diversity – actually drove people apart! How did Educated Liberal Democrats – MISS THIS? Is it it – TRUE? The University of Florida divided their colleges into THREE SECTIONS. One is a seminary college that educates White Sothern Men – Only! Negros and White Women have – their own college. Why? Well White Confederate Traitors lost the war – TO THE LIBERAL SOCIALIS REPUBLICANS, some who were Marxists! Florida wanted to create a New Image. os what the South would look like – if they won the Civil War! They pretend they would have TAKEN CARE of Negros by sending them of To Manuel Skills College. Would black people be taught politics – and religion? Hell no! How about white women? Will they be taught politics and religion, so they can become ministers and, run for office? Hell no! How about VOTING? How exclusive is that – that only Southern White Men could vote? This is not about racism – or about you and your feelings! LEARN!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Republicans
I’m seeking a good attorney so I can sue the Governor – and the Republican Party – for employing deception and relgious propaganda – TO CONTROL MY FAMILIES TRADITIONAL PARTY! The Red State Neo-Confederacy does not DESERVE the Raidcal Republican Party Tradtions!
GET OUT! Form your own party suited exaclty to your tastes! Stop wearing a disguse!
John Presco
Predient: Royal Rosamond Press
Anti-Protestantism originated in a reaction by militant societies connected to the Roman Catholic Church alarmed at the spread of Protestantism following the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. Martin Luther’s Proclamation occurred in 1517. By 1540, Pope Paul III had sanctioned the first society pledged to extinguish Protestantism.[1] Christian Protestantism was denounced as heresy, and those supporting these doctrines were excommunicated as heretics.
https://www.heritage.org/religious-liberty/commentary/protecting-religious-liberty
https://news.yahoo.com/college-board-replaces-president-former-233312340.html
Before the meeting, dozens of students held a rally outside to oppose major changes to the school and its mission, which is known for its open approach to coursework without specific grades, and being a safe place for many LGBTQ students who feel marginalized in other schools.
Murphree was born near Chepultepec, Alabama in 1870.[3] His father was Jesee Ellis Murphree, a Confederate veteran of the Civil War;
In 1905, several prominent political backers advanced Murphree’s name to be the first president of the new University of the State of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida, which was the newly consolidated men’s university and land-grant college created by the Florida Legislature‘s passage of the Buckman Act, which segregated Florida’s schools of higher learning by race and gender.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_Florida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida
Anti-suffragism in Florida[edit]
One Florida state representative, L. C. O’Neal, argued that giving women the right to vote would lower them “from the exalted position which they now held.”[47] Other men did not believe that women were equal to men in their ability to vote in the same way that women differed from men physically.[40] Others, like Representative Frank Clark from Gainesville used quotations from the Bible to justify the idea that women should have different gender roles from men.[48] Clark insisted that women should only act as their husbands instructed them.[48]
It was also argued that women’s suffrage was a “Northern” idea, and therefore as people living in the South, they should reject the arguments for it.[15] Representatives in the Florida House pointed out that giving women the vote would also mean that African-American women would vote.[15] They believed this would lead to a “train of evils.”[15] Representative Clark also conflated socialism in his racist reasoning against allowing women to vote.[49] He believed that allowing women to vote would be a slippery slope that would lead to more Black people voting, women’s character becoming degraded, and “destroy the American home.”[49]
New College board fires president, installs former GOP House speaker, DeSantis ally
The whirlwind unleashed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that rapidly is reshaping New College of Florida picked up speed Tuesday with the president fired amid a broad leadership overhaul that capped a momentous few hours for the Sarasota school.
A slate of new board members installed by DeSantis earlier this month replaced college President Patricia Okker with former GOP House speaker and education commissioner Richard Corcoran, installed a DeSantis appointee as the new board chair, moved to hire a former Republican lawmaker as the school’s new general counsel and began the process of abolishing programs aimed at increasing diversity, equity and inclusion on campus, turbo charging a dramatic conservative culture shift.
Corcoran has been an eager participant in the governor’s education culture war battles, and soon will take the lead in his experiment in overhauling a public university to match his conservative approach to higher education. Corcoran can’t takeover as interim president until March, so a college administrator will serve in the role until then.
The board also selected DeSantis’ appointee Debra Jenks as the new chair and voted to negotiate with Bill Galvano, a former GOP state Senate president from Bradenton, to become the college’s new general counsel.
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The changes ensure the college’s top officials are in synch with DeSantis’ education agenda, which he reiterated Tuesday during a press conference in Bradenton.
DeSantis blasted Florida universities, and New College in particular, for their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. He also accused New College of teaching theories that have become major conservative talking points in recent years, including critical race theory (CRT) and gender theories.
“The mission has been I think more into the DEI, CRT, the gender ideology rather than what a liberal arts education should be,” DeSantis said of New College.
Board member Matthew Spalding, a dean at conservative Christian Hillsdale College in Michigan who was tapped by DeSantis to serve at New College, said the school needs “leadership that is fully committed” to what the governor and Legislature want to accomplish. Other DeSantis appointees agreed.
Hillsdale has been held up by the DeSantis administration as a model for New College.
Fighting back tears, an emotional Okker said she couldn’t go along with “this new mandate where this is a hostile takeover and a dramatic change in the mission.” Members of the audience – some in tears themselves – urged her to fight for her job. Okker apologized for disappointing them.
“I believe a president needs to stand behind her words when she asks donors to contribute,” she said. “It is the only way that I can be effective. You cannot ask me to go forward and argue that we are indoctrinating students here. I do not believe it.”
The governor and some of his New College board appointees have talked extensively about liberal indoctrination in higher education.
Okker was fired by the board without cause after negotiating an amendment to her contract that allows her to go on paid leave for a year and return to the college as a professor.
Okker appears to have negotiated the agreement after being told there was a plan to fire her. She declined to comment after the meeting.
“There is a new mandate for this college and I have been informed that the plan includes the termination of my employment as president, that is my understanding,” she said during the meeting.
The crowd booed.
It wasn’t clear if a majority of the board was prepared to fire Okker if she expressed interest in keeping the job. Some new board members said they didn’t know about a plan to fire her.
“Whose plan?” said Ryan Anderson, a new board member who was appointed by the Florida Board of Governors last week, adding: “I was not aware of any plan.”
Among those eager to have a new president was Christopher Rufo, who was appointed by DeSantis and joined him at a press conference in Bradenton before the board meeting.
“I think new leadership is the expectation, I think it makes sense,” Rufo said.
Spalding later proposed Corcoran as the interim president, saying he had spoken to him about the job. He declined to say after the meeting how the conversations with Corcoran came about, asking for questions in writing.
Corcoran has a bachelor’s from St. Leo University and a law degree from Regent University in Virginia. He is a conservative firebrand who won a seat in the Legislature in 2010, served as speaker from 2016 to 2018 and was tapped by DeSantis to be his first education secretary.
Corcoran pushed to ban critical race theory and mask mandates from public schools. He currently serves on the state Board of Governors, which oversees Florida’s university system, and previously applied to be president of Florida State University.
That Corcoran would be the interim head of New College was confirmed to the Tampa Bay Times by a DeSantis spokeswoman earlier Tuesday before the board ever met to discuss Okker’s tenure.
New College hire:Who is Richard Corcoran, the new interim president of New College of Florida?
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New College Chief of Staff Brad Thiessen will serve as interim president until Corcoran can take over.
About 150 people packed into the college’s Sudakoff Conference Center to witness the leadership shakeup, filling the small venue to capacity. Those who couldn’t get in were directed to an overflow area.
The meeting, which lasted just under four hours, started with a public comment section that included 25 speakers, nearly all of them criticizing the changes at New College.
Betsy Braden, the parent of a transgender New College student, said the school is a haven for students who “have determined that they don’t necessarily fit in to other schools, they embrace their differences and exhibit incredible bravery in staking their path forward.”
“Why would you take this away from us?” she asked.
Another parent of a New College student, Eliana Salzhauer, told the board her son studies “the very woke subject of quantitative economics.”
“It’s so boring, he’s so not woke and it’s so disappointing for me because I am quite woke,” she said, apparently mocking the criticism of the school as too woke.
Salzhauer urged other parents to pay attention, saying DeSantis has “national ambitions” and “what happens at New College is happening at your campus next.”
The criticism and frequent heckling by the audience irked new board member Mark Bauerlein.
“The accusations are telling us that something is wrong here, this is not the way for you to address people who actually have good intentions for the education of the young in America,” Bauerlein said. “You can disagree, but the attacks, the vilification, the insults show there needs to be a deep culture change on campus and it should have happened a long time ago.”
Before the board meeting, about 200 people participated in a demonstration on campus opposing the changes happening at New College. Among the speakers was X Gonzalez, a New College graduate and survivor of the 2018 school shooting in Parkland.
“This is nothing more than a transparent attempt to score political points regardless of how many people are hurt, fired or lose this place as their home,” said Gonzalez, a prominent advocate against gun violence who has 1.3 million Twitter followers.
Herald-Tribune staff writers Steven Walker and Gabriela Szymanowska contributed to this story.
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Richard Corcoran becomes interim president of Sarasota’s New College
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE – Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday announced plans to block state colleges from having programs on diversity, equity and inclusion, and critical race theory in his latest step onto the front lines of the nation’s culture wars.
The Republican governor debuted the proposal as part of a larger, higher education legislative package that is expected to be taken up by the GOP-controlled statehouse when its regular session begins in March.
The second-term governor, who is widely expected to launch a 2024 White House bid in the late spring or early summer, has emerged as a fierce opponent of so-called woke policies on race, gender and public health. Such positions endear him to the GOP’s conservative base but threaten to alienate independents and moderate voters in both parties who are influential in presidential politics.
Critical race theory is a way of thinking about America’s history through the lens of racism. Scholars developed it during the 1970s and 1980s in response to what scholars viewed as a lack of racial progress following the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. It centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions, which function to maintain the dominance of white people in society.
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“I think people want to see true academics and they want to get rid of some of the political window dressing that seems to accompany all this,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Bradenton, adding that critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion programs, known as DEI, would get “no funding, and that will wither on the vine.”
In a statement, the governor’s office said the proposal “raises the standards of learning and civil discourse of public higher education in Florida” by “prohibiting higher education institutions from using any funding, regardless of source, to support DEI, CRT, and other discriminatory initiatives.”
Later in the day, the newly conservative majority on the once progressive New College of Florida board of trustees — most of whom DeSantis recently appointed — voted to oust the current president, Patricia Okker. They also voted to begin debate on whether to abolish the office of diversity, equity and inclusion, and related programs. The final word on diversity, equity and inclusion programs will come at another meeting.
The overall idea is to transform the school of fewer than 1,000 students in Sarasota into what the new trustees call a “classical” liberal arts school.
“I think it’s time for us to set a new standard,” said one of the new trustees, conservative activist Christopher Rufo. “I think new leadership is the expectation.”
The trustees voted to hire Richard Corcoran as the next New College president. The Republican former state House speaker and education commissioner is a close ally of DeSantis’.
Before the meeting, dozens of students held a rally outside to oppose major changes to the school and its mission, which is known for its open approach to coursework without specific grades, and being a safe place for many LGBTQ students who feel marginalized in other schools.
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“That’s what’s at stake today and what we’re here to protect: the freedom to learn, the freedom to think and the freedom to be who we are,” said fourth-year student Madison Markham.
As the 2024 presidential primary season begins, ambitious Republicans are increasingly eager to lean into cultural divisions as they court the conservative voters who typically decide GOP primary contests.
Former President Donald Trump unveiled his own education plan last week that promises to cut federal funding for any school or program that includes “critical race theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto our children.”
“Our public schools have been taken over by the radical-left maniacs,” Trump, the only declared candidate in the race so far, said in a video announcing the plan.
DeSantis’ overall higher education proposal was expected after his administration requested in late December that state colleges submit spending data and other information on programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion, and critical race theory.
The governor is also pushing for education administrators to “realign” courses to provide historically accurate information and to not include identity politics. DeSantis’ proposals have not yet been introduced as formal legislation, but the GOP-controlled statehouse is often eager to carry out his initiatives.
DeSantis and other conservatives have long argued that critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion programs are racially divisive and discriminatory — and are often cited in criticism of what they call “woke” ideology in education.
Last year the governor signed legislation dubbed the Stop WOKE Act that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in schools and businesses. The law bars instruction that says members of one race are inherently racist or should feel guilt for past actions committed by others of the same race, among other things.
This month, the DeSantis administration blocked a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies from being taught in high schools, saying it violates state law and is historically inaccurate.
So far, at least 25 states have considered legislation or other steps to limit how race and racism can be taught, according to an analysis from Education Week. Eight states, all Republican-led, have banned or limited the teaching of critical race theory or similar concepts through laws or administrative actions. The bans largely address what can be taught inside the classroom.
The Great Erasmus
Posted on March 4, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
How easy my life would be if I claimed I was a Born Again Christian, and say;
“Let’s go to the mall and count the Demonic Baby Killers!”
Not only was my ancestor a good friend of a Pope, he was a friend of the Great Erasmus – whom he defended! Pope Adrien’s papal papers were probably thrown out in the trash by the Medici, along with Gottschalk’s papers? They were at the cusp of the Reformation and, and the center of Dutch Renaissance. Note the wallpaper behind Erasmus, that is like the work of Kehinde Wily, that took me to the very feet of Erasmus and his Habsburg backer – unknowingly!
Members of the Rosemont family were interred in the Minderbroedersklooster that was founded by the Franciscan Monks. Above are my Wieneke kindred who were members of the Order of Saint Francis. This is the real Rose Line. I was destined for the Church.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2018
Renaissance Castle
Posted on September 5, 2014by Royal Rosamond Press
Ghisburtus van Roesmont was a Dutch nobleman of some importance. His mother was jonkvrouw Adriana Theodorici Rover, the daughter of Dirk Edmondszn Roover. The Roover family appears to descend from one of the Radbot rulers of Holland who was given the name Roover, or Rover due to conquest of the Netherlands. Arnoldus Rosemont also descends to Radbot, who was employed by the Franks to fight the Normans, the Vikings, who were called Rovers. The elder Radbot was allied with the Franks to fight the Viking, many who carried a banner with the image of a wolf. Was their marriage with a Merovingian princess, and thus a marriage union to carry on this line?
The Rosemonts are mentioned in the genealogical book, Taxandria, an extinct province that was replaced by ‘s-Hertogenbosch that had no rulers, or Papal interference, which is rare. The Swan Brethren appear to have owned Saint John’s Church, and ran its affairs as a guild.
Ghisburtus Rosemont was the church warden of Saint John, and later sat in the ships chair. The chances her knew the Renaissance Artist, Hieronymus Bosch, and his father, is very high for his job to was to hire artists and craftsman.
“Only in 1454th – in 1455 were Van Aken and his wife a member of the Brotherhood of Our Lady . In 1461 – 1462 kreeg he was commissioned damaged (by fire) altarpiece of the Brotherhood in the former St. John’s Church in collaboration with the master painter Claes Schoonhoven.
This is a remarkable discover. It puts my kindred at the heart of the Dutch Renaissance, for starters.
Here is a translation of a event, a miracle. There is a box. What is the object. What is “Cloth Hall”?
“On March 16, 1384, Ghijsbrecht Rosemont, witnessed a miracle with Jacob Mertensz. [No. 322 Miracles of Our Lady at ‘s-Hertogenbosch 1381-1603].
Henrick Painter, ships from Den Bosch in 1383 shared in 1397 with Chris Ruffle Mont Tijn a box in the Cloth Hall, which had been the case. Late Godscalck Roes Mont. In 1430 Godschalk Roes Mouth, buy the high sheriff of Den Bosch and Meierij castle Maurick. In 1442 he sold it back to Henry of Vladeracken.
The emblem worn by the Swan Brethren depicts a a rose, or lily,
amongst thorns. At the root of the rose is the Latin word SICUT which
is the first word from a line from Song of Songs.
2:2. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Sicut lilium inter spinas sic amica mea inter filias
http://bossche-encyclopedie.nl/personen/roesmont,%20ghiselbertus.htm
ers, who were then still underage, will have been legal children of Ghijsbrecht and Lady Margriet. Master Godschalc was born in Eindhoven around 1483, studied artes in Leuven in 1499 and was promoted there in 1502 as the third of 99 students to magister artium . In 1510 he was nominated by the OLV fraternity for a benefice in the Bossche St.Jan and since 1515 he was also canon of the St.Petrus church in Leuven. He also always resided in Leuven where he was a professor in theology from 1515 and wrote a number of popular tracts.
On September 18, 1467, Ghijsbrecht Roesmont, counselor of Den Bosch and widower of Mabelia , added a codicil to this will in the presence of Rembout Vilt (no.403). Ghijsbrecht, who previously lived in the Orthenstraat (1422), then stayed – exhausted by his old age – in his house at the Zijle. As witnesses, the codicil includes the secretary Rutgher van Arkel (no.14), Ghijsbrechts servant and clerk Sander Pyeck van Batenburg (no.313) and his servant Lysbeth Goyart Goebelens from Eindhoven. In addition to the latter two, Ghijsbrecht also left goods to the St. Lambert church in Liege, the Bossche St. Jan, the St. Peter’s church in Vught, the parish church of Uden and the Bossche OZ brotherhood, as well as Katherijn, widow of the goldsmith. Arnt vander Weyden, to Goetscalc and Jan, sons of his late cousin Jan Goetscalcs Roesmont, and to “the other heirs”. Ghijsbrecht is mentioned in the obitus fratrum of the OLV fraternity under the year 1469/70, together with Rutgher van Arkel, secretary, and master Gerit Boest, counselor and secretary (see no.57). Ghijsbrecht probably died in the beginning of 1470. He was provided with the last sacraments by Brother Alart Alartss, Minderbroeder, and will be buried in the Minderbroedersklooster, just like some other members of his family. As far as he knows, he did not leave children behind. Still, he must have had a son Goyart because on September 12, 1422, Ghijsbrecht drew up a concept in the Bosch ‘protocol in which Henric Heyme promised to pay 50 Arnoldus guilders to ” michi ad opus Godefridi, filii May “. 9)
Minderbroedersklooster (‘s-Hertogenbosch)
The Minderbroedersklooster in ‘s-Hertogenbosch was the first monastery founded by the Franciscans in the present Netherlands . The monastery stood on the corner of the current Pensmarkt and Minderbroedersstraat and continued until the current Snellestraat . The Franciscans settled in ‘s-Hertogenbosch in 1228 . This is only two years after the death of the founder of order Francis of Assisi . On a site that Henry I of Brabant had given to the Franciscans, they would establish a monastery and a church . In 1256 the church is demolished to build a new, larger monastery church. In 1263 this church is dedicated by Henricus van Vianden , the Bishop of Utrecht .
Jon Presco
The Rose Wolf and Erasmus
Posted on September 15, 2017by Royal Rosamond Press
Erasmus wrote letters to Rosemondt. One letter has the Rosemondt wolf seal on it. This is about the Spanish Inquisition. and of great interest to the history of Haarlem. This is one of the greatest genealogical studies of all time.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
1153/ To Godschalk Rosemondt Louvain 18 October 1520
Gottschalk Rosemondt of Eindhoven in Northern Brabant, matriculated
at the University of Louvain on 1499 and remained there until his
death in 1526. A doctor of divinity in 1516, he succeeded in 1520 to
the chair o f theology formerly held by Jan Briart. Like Briart he
was a personal friend of the future Pope Adrian V1. His prominent
position in the theological faculty notwithstanding , he retained an
open mind towards humanists studies and a measure of sympathy for
Erasmus. This letter is addressed to him in his capacity as rector
of the university for the winter term of 1520-21 (cf Matricule de
Louvain 111-1963) It was published in the Epistolae ad diverse. In
preparation for a confrontations with the theologian Nicolass
Baechem Egmondanus, to be held in the presence of the rector,
Erasmus launches an elaborate protest against his opponent, who had
attacked him from the pulpit of St, Peter’s church on 9 and 14
October,
What’s unmistakable about the two pieces is that they aren’t simply works of portraiture: They are works of 21st century art. Built on centuries of what precede them, they break traditions, and barriers, and encourage new generations to tread in their wake. I’m talking about the portraits, but the same applies to the people who sat for them, too.
Desiderius Erasmus, (born October 27, 1469, Rotterdam, Holland [now in the Netherlands]—died July 12, 1536, Basel, Switzerland), humanist who was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, the first editor of the New Testament, and also an important figure in patristics and classical literature.Using the philological methods pioneered by Italian humanists, Erasmus helped lay the groundwork for the historical-critical study of the past, especially in his studies of the Greek New Testament and the Church Fathers. His educational writings contributed to the replacement of the older scholastic curriculum by the new humanist emphasis on the classics. By criticizing ecclesiastical abuses, while pointing to a better age in the distant past, he encouraged the growing urge for reform, which found expression both in the Protestant Reformation and in the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Finally, his independent stance in an age of fierce confessional controversy—rejecting both Luther’s doctrine of predestination and the powers that were claimed for the papacy—made him a target of suspicion for loyal partisans on both sides and a beacon for those who valued liberty more than orthodoxy.
Early life and career
Erasmus was the second illegitimate son of Roger Gerard, a priest, and Margaret, a physician’s daughter. He advanced as far as the third-highest class at the chapter school of St. Lebuin’s in Deventer. One of his teachers, Jan Synthen, was a humanist, as was the headmaster, Alexander Hegius. The schoolboy Erasmus was clever enough to write classical Latin verse that impresses a modern reader as cosmopolitan.
After both parents died, the guardians of the two boys sent them to a school in ’s-Hertogenbosch conducted by the Brethren of the Common Life, a lay religious movement that fostered monastic vocations. Erasmus would remember this school only for a severe discipline intended, he said, to teach humility by breaking a boy’s spirit.
Having little other choice, both brothers entered monasteries. Erasmus chose the Augustinian canons regular at Steyn, near Gouda, where he seems to have remained about seven years (1485–92). While at Steyn he paraphrased Lorenzo Valla’s Elegantiae, which was both a compendium of pure classical usage and a manifesto against the scholastic “barbarians” who had allegedly corrupted it. Erasmus’ monastic superiors became “barbarians” for him by discouraging his classical studies. Thus, after his ordination to the priesthood (April 1492), he was happy to escape the monastery by accepting a post as Latin secretary to the influential Henry of Bergen, bishop of Cambrai. His Antibarbarorum liber, extant from a revision of 1494–95, is a vigorous restatement of patristic arguments for the utility of the pagan classics, with a polemical thrust against the cloister he had left behind: “All sound learning is secular learning.”
Erasmus was not suited to a courtier’s life, nor did things improve much when the bishop was induced to send him to the University of Paris to study theology (1495). He disliked the quasi-monastic regimen of the Collège de Montaigu, where he lodged initially, and pictured himself to a friend as sitting “with wrinkled brow and glazed eye” through Scotist lectures. To support his classical studies, he began taking in pupils; from this period (1497–1500) date the earliest versions of those aids to elegant Latin—including the Colloquia and the Adagia—that before long would be in use in humanist schools throughout Europe.
The wandering scholar
In 1499 a pupil, William Blount, Lord Mountjoy, invited Erasmus to England. There he met Thomas More, who became a friend for life. John Colet quickened Erasmus’ ambition to be a “primitive theologian,” one who would expound Scripture not in the argumentative manner of the scholastics but in the manner of Jerome and the other Church Fathers, who lived in an age when men still understood and practiced the classical art of rhetoric. The impassioned Colet besought him to lecture on the Old Testament at Oxford, but the more cautious Erasmus was not ready. He returned to the Continent with a Latin copy of St. Paul’s Epistles and the conviction that “ancient theology” required mastery of Greek.
On a visit to Artois, France (1501), Erasmus met the fiery preacher Jean Voirier, who, though a Franciscan, told him that “monasticism was a life more of fatuous men than of religious men.” Admirers recounted how Voirier’s disciples faced death serenely, trusting in God, without the solemn reassurance of the last rites. Voirier lent Erasmus a copy of works by Origen, the early Greek Christian writer who promoted the allegorical, spiritualizing mode of scriptural interpretation, which had roots in Platonic philosophy. By 1502 Erasmus had settled in the university town of Leuven (Brabant [now in Belgium]) and was reading Origen and St. Paul in Greek. The fruit of his labours was Enchiridion militis Christiani (1503/04; Handbook of a Christian Knight). In this work Erasmus urged readers to “inject into the vitals” the teachings of Christ by studying and meditating on the Scriptures, using the spiritual interpretation favoured by the “ancients” to make the text pertinent to moral concerns. The Enchiridion was a manifesto of lay piety in its assertion that “monasticism is not piety.” Erasmus’ vocation as a “primitive theologian” was further developed through his discovery at Park Abbey, near Leuven, of a manuscript of Valla’s Adnotationes on the Greek New Testament, which he published in 1505 with a dedication to Colet.
Erasmus sailed for England in 1505, hoping to find support for his studies. Instead he found an opportunity to travel to Italy, the land of promise for northern humanists, as tutor to the sons of the future Henry VIII’s physician. The party arrived in the university town of Bologna in time to witness the triumphal entry (1506) of the warrior pope Julius II at the head of a conquering army, a scene that figures later in Erasmus’ anonymously published satiric dialogue, Julius exclusus e coelis (written 1513–14). In Venice Erasmus was welcomed at the celebrated printing house of Aldus Manutius, where Byzantine émigrés enriched the intellectual life of a numerous scholarly company. For the Aldine press Erasmus expanded his Adagia, or annotated collection of Greek and Latin adages, into a monument of erudition with over 3,000 entries; this was the book that first made him famous. The adage “Dutch ear” (auris Batava) is one of many hints that he was not an uncritical admirer of sophisticated Italy, with its theatrical sermons and its scholars who doubted the immortality of the soul; his aim was to write for honest and unassuming “Dutch ears.”
De pueris instituendis, written in Italy though not published until 1529, is the clearest statement of Erasmus’ enormous faith in the power of education. With strenuous effort the very stuff of human nature could be molded, so as to draw out (e-ducare) peaceful and social dispositions while discouraging unworthy appetites. Erasmus, it would almost be true to say, believed that one is what one reads. Thus the “humane letters” of classical and Christian antiquity would have a beneficent effect on the mind, in contrast to the disputatious temper induced by scholastic logic-chopping or the vengeful amour propre bred into young aristocrats by chivalric literature, “the stupid and tyrannical fables of King Arthur.”
The celebrated Moriae encomium, or Praise of Folly, conceived as Erasmus crossed the Alps on his way back to England and written at Thomas More’s house, expresses a very different mood. For the first time the earnest scholar saw his own efforts along with everyone else’s as bathed in a universal irony, in which foolish passion carried the day: “Even the wise man must play the fool if he wishes to beget a child.”
http://mary-magdalene-wifeofchrist.blogspot.com/2008/01/rose-line-of-mary-magdalene.html
You are the Rose. You are the Flower of Life, the Divine Feminine essence in her fullest. As you start honoring yourself as the most sacred rose, the Divine Bride, and as you enter into the world as a High Priestess, you are embodying the most pure Magdalene Frequency. As you do so, you will begin to manifest a life of harmony, peace, Divine Love, and Twin Flame Love. Stepping into Her, you step into yourself. Vibrating at the Magdalene Frequency is the same as vibrating at the Divine Feminine essence of your soul whilst attracting in (by the Law of Opposites Attract) your Divine Masculine Energies.
https://www.shmoop.com/the-da-vinci-code/rose-symbol.html
http://internationalopulence.com/knights-templar/
http://www.returnofthechrist.org.uk/magdalene-flame/the-roses-of-the-magdalene.html
The Anti-Abortion Hegemony
Posted on March 4, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
America’s Voters are halved. Our Democracy was split in twain by the issue of Slavery. The Civil War has been rehashed, like a monster, in regards to the FAKE ABORTION ISSUE that was invented by Paul Weyrich to counter the Civil Rights Movement, thus, giving birth to the extreme Christian-right, and the election of Donald Trump, who took a stance against abortion. This was enough to get the SWING VOTES of white men, who wanted to be seen as being moral. Liberal men and women did not go and vote. Many smoked high levels of THC, or, went for Black Identity. They lost track of the SWING VOTES. Who would vote for a Immoral White Woman?
Conservative evangelical leaders began encouraging THEIR FLOCKS to quit the Democratic Party, and vote the Republican ticket. They pointed to Democrats as being baby-killers of Satan. Tens of millions of American gleefully enjoyed seeing fellow Americans as being in league with Satan. When they went to the mall, they realized half the people they saw there, were Murderous Satanists. They loved to pick them out in the crowd. Now, Putin has joined in on the fun. Trump sees the Russians as being more moral then SOME Americans. Who helps him with his vision? Mike Pence, the ruler of the Anti-Abortion Hegemony. We know Putin is Anti-Gay. Most Christians have no interest in uniting America. They love to win their siblings rivalries, by seeing their brothers and sisters as………….THE DARK ONES! Do they really want the Evil One of the Evil Empire – to repent, and be like them? No!
When the Soviet Union fell, I told my liberal friends the Republican Christian-right would be looking for a New Evil Empire, and, the Democratic party – IS IT! I have no liberal friends. They chose to call me insane and deluded rather then consider if I was speaking the truth. Potheads with their heads in the sand, and their butts in the air, are waiting for another reem-job! Someone will come along and make it all go away.
An old friend wants me to stop blogging and go back to being a nobody, and a drunk! He is an atheist who hates religion, and admits he knows nothing about what I blog on. He does not want to see me as a One Man American Troll Farmer. Only he can make a difference. How, I do not have a clue. He is one man, with one vote.
So, here he is the Messiah of the Do-Gooders and Self-righteous Prigs, who turned the coolest and most Bohemian Nation on earth, into a cesspool of Nurdish Jesus-Freaks! Weyrich was America’s answer to Hitler. He did get two things right. He opposed the second Iraq War, and believed Womanizers were unfit for office. He died in 2008, and did not see the rise of ISIS thanks to Republicans. If Mad Trump does not get us into a nuclear war, let us hope the Moral Majority of Americans, STOP voting for Republicans!
In 1989, he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the first President Bush’s nominee for secretary of defense, John G. Tower, was unqualified for the post because he was a drinker and a womanizer, issues that eventually doomed the nomination.
I demand all electeded Republicans vacate the party co-founded by my kindred, Jessie and John Fremont, and found their own party – of hypocrites! They knew they had betrayed their Dead Messiah when they backed Trump after he was their nominee.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-02-01/news/mn-1281_1_john-tower
Jon Presco
“Defense is a moral issue,” he told The Washington Post in 1983, before the fall of the Soviet Union, adding that he considered the Communists to be godless oppressors. “There are some things worse than war. One is surrender — the moral consequences are such that the nation would be destroyed. Since I believe in eternal life, if it became necessary to sacrifice my life for my country or my beliefs, well, then I’m willing to do so. The people who have come up with the better-red-than-dead idea are not believers.”
Destined For The Church
Posted on March 16, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
It was the desire of my mother, born Rosemary Rita Rosamond, that I become a Franciscan Monk. Her mother, Mary Magdalene Rosamond, saw something special in me, and I lived with her for almost year when I six in Westwood. Her kindred were members of the Order of Saint Francis.
Jon Presco
Establishing a Eternal Artistic Legacy
Posted on December 8, 2012by Royal Rosamond Press
The day after Christine Rosamond Benton drowned at Rocky Point, my sister Vicki called me and asked me to come to Carmel and help her with Rosamond’s art. Fifteen minutes later, she called back, and asked me not to come to Christine’s home because there was going to be meeting with our sister’s close friends, and monies to pay for the funeral would be collected. This is where things went south for my family because I objected.
“I am family, Vicki. This matter is a family matter.”
“Oh Greg. You know how you are. You won’t get along with these people.”
“Vicki! It is matter of them getting along with me!”
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