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Nox Venit

By JF Solís

Based. Traditionalist. Nuanced Augustinian (Calvinist). High Church Presbyterian (PCA). Dissident Right/Neo-reactionary (with residual libertarian leanings).

My interests are: (i) the problems of modernity, post-modernity, the contemporary political and economic order; (ii) arguing for the need for spirituality and truth; and, (iii) asserting the centrality of prayerful devotion to Christ (through the Divine Office) to our engagement with “the naked public square.”

Twitter: @JFSolis
Telegram: t.me/Nox_Venit
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Opus Dei: The Divine Office

Nox VenitFeb 02, 2021

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Reclaiming Christendom IX(a): Is a Christian Rapprochement Possible?

Reclaiming Christendom IX(a): Is a Christian Rapprochement Possible?

In November 2017, The Distributist read and commented upon an article by Felix Miller, "The Right Needs Joy". Discussing the possibility that the left has finally gone off the deep end, Distributist comments, "[I]f we are in the terminal phase of progressivism, the opposition to that dying force cannot be purely negative; it can't be a group of people who stand against nut jobs.... We need a reason to carry on civilization. We need reasons for joy." This series argues that the reasons for joy and for carrying on civilization are to be found in the reclamation of Christendom. In this episode, I begin discussing the problem of division among Christians, asking, first, if a Christian rapprochement is possible. In future episodes I will discuss divisions between Protestants, Roman Catholics, and the Eastern Orthodox.

Eutychianism diagram link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutyches#/media/File:Monophysite.svg

"Reflections on the Need for Optimism" : https://youtu.be/qaxKWCrcpuM

"The Right Needs Joy", read by The Distributist: https://youtu.be/SfYyfaaPXIw

Original article by Felix Miller: https://jacobitemag.com/2017/09/03/the-right-needs-joy/

G. Florovsky, Faith and Culture


Dec 22, 202224:22
Reclaiming Christendom Part VIII - The Specter of Theonomy (3)

Reclaiming Christendom Part VIII - The Specter of Theonomy (3)

The third and final installment of my treatment of theonomy, in which I discuss the philosophy of law which a reclaimed Christendom should adopt, an approach to law which is intended to repair and restore, rather than primarily to punish.


Link mentioned in the episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations#/media/File:Code_of_Federal_Regulations.jpg

May 05, 202237:03
Reclaiming Christendom Part VIII - The Specter of Theonomy (2)

Reclaiming Christendom Part VIII - The Specter of Theonomy (2)

Finding time and place for recording still a problem now due to family health matters. But here is the second installment of my treatment of theonomy. In this installment, I discuss the sexual ethics of the Law, particular as the punishments are concerned. This discussion raises the question of jurisprudence in a reclaimed Christendom, which will be the topic of the next and final installment on the subject of theonomy. 

Feb 05, 202254:16
Reclaiming Christendom Part VIII - The Specter of Theonomy (1)

Reclaiming Christendom Part VIII - The Specter of Theonomy (1)

I continue to struggle finding time and place for recording, due to the loss of my "studio" thanks to COVID precautions. But here, at long last, is the first installment of my treatment of theonomy. In this installment, the first of three, I deal with the doctrine of our being freed from the law, a topic which always comes up in discussions of theonomy, raised, understandably, by most critics of theonomy. The text for this installment is a passage in Galatians chapter five.

Feb 05, 202241:23
Reading: From NIGHT, by Elie Wiesel

Reading: From NIGHT, by Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, political activist, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, including Night, which is based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.


Yes, I am continuing Reclaiming Christendom. But several family health issues have imposed time constraints which have hindered my preparation of the script.

Nov 17, 202126:27
Reclaiming Christendom Part VII - Christendom and the Kingdom of God

Reclaiming Christendom Part VII - Christendom and the Kingdom of God

In this installment, I explain the distinction between Christendom "as a civilization, with a supporting culture, influenced by traditional Christianity and orienting its members toward the kingdom of heaven," as a means of explaining why Christendom cannot be confused with the Kingdom.

Jun 09, 202127:23
Reclaiming Christendom - Part VI: Minister of God

Reclaiming Christendom - Part VI: Minister of God

In this episode, I read the text of a lecture I delivered as a follow-up to the previous episode. (The original recording left a bit to be desired in terms of quality.) As with the previous episode, I delivered this lecture a few years ago, long before I started thinking along the lines I am outlining and describing in this series. However, together with the previous, it served such a seminal role in my thinking that I doubt I would ever have conceived of the idea of reclaiming Christendom if I had not started thinking along the lines I outlined in these lecture.

The episode on the Great Commission is here: https://anchor.fm/jf-sols/episodes/Reclaiming-Christendom-Part-II---Christendom-and-the-Great-Commission-epp69l

Apr 07, 202135:28
Reclaiming Christendom V: Enemies of the State

Reclaiming Christendom V: Enemies of the State

This is actually a recording of a lecture a few years ago, long before I started thinking along the lines I am outlining and describing in this series. However, it served such a seminal role in my thinking that I doubt I would ever have conceived of the idea of reclaiming Christendom if I had not started thinking along the lines I outline in this lecture. And although, chronologically, the lecture precedes my work here, I believe this is where it logically belongs in the series. There is a follow-up lecture, which will soon follow.

Feb 22, 202135:06
Original Sin, Revival and Political Action
Feb 11, 202112:08
Original Sin, Persuasion and Political Action

Original Sin, Persuasion and Political Action

In June of 2020, Elliot, the proprietor of the YouTube channel, Mauritian Struggle, posted a video in which he critiqued the last half-hour or so of a video by Steve Franssen. I think anyone would benefit from watching Elliot's video, but I was intrigued enough to consider Franssen's video from my own Augustinian-Calvinist perspective.

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Link to Franssen's video: https://youtu.be/lQn1zrl1nAk

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Link to Eliot's video: https://youtu.be/dRELYRy9RY8

Eliot's Recommendations (to be the sort of politically-involved Christian who can confront power, for example Moses, Elijah):

1. Going to church

2. Being men and women of prayer, especially saying, chanting or singing the psalms.

3. Praying the Rosary

4. Meditative/Spiritual Reading, the Scriptures, daily, of course, but also:

- The Preparation For Death by St Alphonsus Ligouri, which is intense but really puts life into perspective 

- The Philokalia, or Love of beauty. This'll teach you the way the earliest monks struggled to fight against this themselves. Volume I is particularly good 

- The Sayings of The Desert Fathers, which are a set of short stories about these monks 

Scriptural Order: 

- Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, 1&2 Samuel, 1&2 Kings, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1 Maccabees, Luke, and Acts.

His recommended reading list:

- The Preparation For Death by St Alphonsus Ligouri, which is intense but really puts life into perspective 

- The Philokalia, or Love of beauty. This'll teach you the way the earliest monks struggled to fight against this themselves. Volume I is particularly good 

- The Sayings of The Desert Fathers, which are a set of short stories about these monks 

Scriptural Order: 

- Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, 1&2 Samuel, 1&2 Kings, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1 Maccabees, Luke, and Acts. This is the story 

- John, Ecclesiastes, Job and The Song of Songs

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My suggestions:

-Thomas Watson’s Body of Divinity

-John Murray’s, Redemption: Accomplished and Applied

-John Owens, The Mortification of Sin in Believers

-Matthew Henry, A Church in the House

- Nathanael Ranew’s Solitude Improved

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Link to Anglican BCP (1979): https://www.bcponline.org/

Link to Anglican BCP (1928): http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1928/BCP_1928.htm

Link to the Office of Compline: http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1892/Compline_1892.htm

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Link to instructions for the Lutheran Rosary: http://www.giftsofaith.com/Files/lutheranrosary.pdf

Feb 08, 202136:20
Opus Dei: Compline

Opus Dei: Compline

In this episode: Compline

Order:

Invocation

Gloria

the Lord's Prayer (Our Father)

Apostles' Creed

Psalmnody (65 - 70)

Epistle lesson

Response: the Magnificat

Gloria

Concluding Prayer

Feb 04, 202115:08
Opus Dei: Afternoon Prayer

Opus Dei: Afternoon Prayer

In this episode: Afternoon Prayer

Order:

Gloria

the Lord's Prayer (Our Father)

Psalmnody (61 - 64)

Concluding Prayer

Feb 03, 202104:44
Opus Dei: Mid-Day Prayer

Opus Dei: Mid-Day Prayer

In this episode: Mid-day prayer.

Order:

Gloria

the Lord's Prayer (Our Father)

Psalmnody (57 - 60)

Concluding Prayer

Feb 03, 202106:17
Opus Dei: Mid-Morning Prayer

Opus Dei: Mid-Morning Prayer

In this episode: Mid-Morning Prayer.

Order:

Gloria

the Lord's Prayer (Our Father)

Psalmnody (53 - 56)

Canticle of Anna (I Samuel 2.1-10)

Concluding Prayer

Feb 03, 202107:20
Opus Dei: Early Morning Prayer

Opus Dei: Early Morning Prayer

In the previous episode, I said that, in order to further demonstrate what praying the Divine Office might look like in actual practice, I would post my own observances of the offices for one day and give a glimpse into my own prayer life.

In this episode: Early Morning Prayer.

Order:

Invocation

the Lord's Prayer (Our Father)

Apostles' Creed

Psalmnody (48 - 52)

Gospel Lesson

Response

Benedictus

Gloria

Concluding Prayer

Feb 03, 202111:41
Opus Dei: The Divine Office

Opus Dei: The Divine Office

In the previous episode, an excursus from the main topic - Reclaiming Christendom - I discussed the last-mentioned of the four pillars of historic Christianity, prayer. In this episode, I move from the theoretical to the practical and discuss the role of the Divine Office in developing and strengthening our devotion to prayer.

Feb 02, 202120:07
Excursus: Devotion to Prayer
Feb 01, 202141:40
Reclaiming Christendom Part IV - The Four Pillars of Historic Christianity (2)
Feb 01, 202130:27
Reclaiming Christendom Part IV - The Four Pillars of Historic Christianity (1)
Feb 01, 202131:41
Reclaiming Christendom Part III - The Worldview Implicit in the Great Commission

Reclaiming Christendom Part III - The Worldview Implicit in the Great Commission

My previous episode sought to provide an understanding, grounded in the first century context, of the Great Commission as rendered in Matthew 28. Here, I discuss the world-and life-view (or collective action frame) implicit in the Great Commission.

Feb 01, 202138:04
Reclaiming Christendom Part II - Christendom and the Great Commission

Reclaiming Christendom Part II - Christendom and the Great Commission

Reclaiming Christendom requires effective evangelism. Sadly, it must be admitted that, at present in Church history, nothing seems to fail quite like evangelism. Here, I explain how much of the failure is due to how evangelism is carried out.

Feb 01, 202136:17
Reclaiming Christendom Part I - The Decline of the Evangelical Right

Reclaiming Christendom Part I - The Decline of the Evangelical Right

Reclaiming Christendom Part I - The Decline of the Evangelical Right

Links to sources mentioned in the podcast:

"Reflections on the Need for Optimism" : https://youtu.be/qaxKWCrcpuM

"The Right Needs Joy", read by The Distributist: https://youtu.be/SfYyfaaPXIw

Original article by Felix Miller: https://jacobitemag.com/2017/09/03/th...

Feb 01, 202149:32
Introduction

Introduction

Hello and welcome. Call me Nox. For about two years I’ve been posting videos to my YouTube channel. I’ve decided that they really work better as podcasts, so I will be migrating them here.

In general my interests are (first) exploring the problems of modernity, the Enlightenment and post-Modernity, including critical theory in general, critical race theory in particular (on the subject, I would describe myself as an anti-critical theorist); (second) reflecting upon the contemporary political and economic order; (third) arguing the need for Christian spirituality and truth: (fourth) asserting the centrality of prayerful devotion to Christ (through the Divine Office) to our engagement with the “naked public square.”

I describe myself as a nuanced Augustinian (though critics prefer the term, Calvinist), a high church presbyterian, a member of the Presbyterian Church in America. I would also say that I align with the dissent right/neo-reactionary spectrum, with some residual libertarian leanings. I have formal training in history, philology, philosophy and theology and seek to employ these skills intelligently on the topics I discuss. I hope that you find my work edifying and informative

Follow me:

Twitter: @JFSolis

Telegram: t.me/Nox_Venit

Feb 01, 202103:46