XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox,   
   alt.religion.christian   
   XPost: alt.politics.religion, rec.arts.books   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   I read a very thought-provoking blog post today from "A Mule in the chapter   
   house".   
      
   Here's a quote:   
      
   === begin quote ===   
   The Church is not the interior of the Empire, the Empire is the material   
   expression of the Church. Man was created to live and move and have his being   
   in this Empire/Church which was intended to mediate the life [energies?] of   
   the Blessed Trinity to the whole of Creation.   
      
   Charles Williams saw, no, felt this acutely, and called it the “Web of   
   Exchange”, “Co-inherence”, or simply “the City”, and hinted that it was   
   intended to encompass the entirety of Creation. Indeed, we see that one of the   
   gravest problems that we are facing is an ecological crisis, whereby the Web   
   of Empire, that portion of the Web of Exchange which organizes the energies of   
   men, is returning material to the Web of Physical Nature, that portion of the   
   Web of Exchange whose interchanges and sacrifices we describe as chemical   
   reactions, in a condition unusable by it. What men call “the economy” has its   
   inputs from this other, more elementary Web, and its impact upon this Web is   
   considerable, but the terms of Exchange have not hitherto been charitable.   
   === end quote ===   
      
   But read the whole thing at:   
      
   http://tinyurl.com/5v87df   
      
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes   
   Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/litmain.htm   
        http://www.librarything.com/catalog/hayesstw   
        http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/Methodius   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)