Evangelical is Not Enough by Thomas Howard

Author:Thomas Howard [Howard, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spiritual & Religion
ISBN: 9780898702217
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2011-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

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Hail, Blessed Virgin Mary:

What Did the Angel Mean?

In 1965 I was married to a lady whose first name is Lovelace. The solitary pronoun I changed to we. All the old courtly language came alive for me: “my lady,” “my gracious lady,” and even the word “courtesy” itself. Suddenly these quaint notions and phrases were no longer merely quaint. Since my “field” was English language and letters, I knew and liked the quaint phrases. But scholarship could only preserve them, the way lovely artifacts and relics are kept intact in museums and reliquaries. It could not vivify them and make them leap into vibrant life.

Marriage did this for me. Gradually, I found that lovely things that had heretofore existed as truths to be admired and defended were alive. More than that, they were alive with life in the way we mortals, as opposed to the angels, encounter it, namely, in real flesh and blood.

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