{"id":1879,"date":"2022-09-09T11:39:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T11:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/09\/word-of-the-day-peritus\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T11:39:56","slug":"word-of-the-day-peritus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/09\/word-of-the-day-peritus\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Peritus<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Merriam-Webster:<\/a> "<\/strong>an expert (as in theology or canon law) who advises and assists the hierarchy (as in the drafting of schemata) at a Vatican council."<\/span><\/p>\n

I was sent to the dictionary by this communication from Tony Flood:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bill, I remember Lonergan and other Vatican II periti <\/em>refer[ring] disparagingly (in their writings) to the "theology of the manuals," publications approved for student-seminarian use. The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee, published the 262-page book in question [Renard's Philosophy of <\/em>Being<\/em>] , its second edition (mine is the 7th printing, 1950, of a 1943 book). The title page is stamped "St. Charles Seminary Library, Staten Island, N.Y." and the next page bears an Imprimi potest <\/em>and Imprimatur<\/em>. [Edward] Feser refers<\/a> to Renard's The Philosophy of Being <\/em>as a "textbook." Structurally sound, no marks on any page, but it wears its 70+ years of handling on its cloth cover (no paper cover). <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tony's unloading from his library. I never unload; I just buy more. There's always space for more books. You make space. Commit territorial aggression against your wife's book shelves; invade her capacious closets; get rid of furniture. <\/span>Books before bread. "Man does not live by bread alone."<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rudyard Kipling<\/a> <\/h2>\n

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\u201cA man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition\u201d<\/h1>\n

In these trying times, 'lead' is a precious metal.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bookman and the Rifleman<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

You know things are getting bad when a bookman must also be a rifleman if he intends to keep his private library safe from the depredations of leftist thugs who are out to 'de-colonize' it. You cannot reach these evil-doers with arguments, for it is not the plane of reason that they inhabit; there are, however, other ways to each them. The gentle caress of sweet reason must sometimes give way to the hard fist of unreason.<\/span><\/p>\n

This raises an important moral question. Are there cultural artifacts so precious that violence against humans in their defense is justified?  I should think so. For those out to 'cancel' high culture have no qualms about 'cancelling,' i.e., murdering its creators.  That is one consideration. But also: haven't the barbarians forfeited their (normative) humanity to such an extent that they no longer deserve moral consideration? Do they form a moral community with us at all?<\/span><\/p>\n

I am just asking. Or is inquiry now verboten<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merriam-Webster: "an expert (as in theology or canon law) who advises and assists the hierarchy (as in the drafting of schemata) at a Vatican council." I was sent to the dictionary by this communication from Tony Flood: Bill, I remember Lonergan and other Vatican II periti refer[ring] disparagingly (in their writings) to the "theology of the manuals," … Continue reading “Word of the Day: Peritus<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,389,289,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-bibliophilia","category-books","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}