Fr. Harrison Ayre

Just submitted 14,000 words with 102 footnotes to my supervisors. Stick a fork in me, I'm done. (the fruit of 1.5 weeks of intense work)

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

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crap. this is what happens when you post after writing all day.

I meant to say INTERNATIONAL LAW

not “natural law”. *sigh*

sorry :(.

am not super read up on all his liturgy stuff at the moment. dealing a lot with politics, systematic methodology, and his really old untranslated stuff. dont rsally have anything to contribute atm in part, too, because my brain is fried today

10 pages while stepping on a historical landmine towards the end that sucked up 4 hours of scouring texts I didnt even realize existed 5 hours ago but I think I navigated it decently.

I am fried.

wait till my thesis is defended and published and then I'll be able to bring it out in full :).

wait till I argue that Ratzinger is what I am calling a 'semi-idealist'! (I don't want to put the full idea out yet until I get my thesis defended though).

many english speaking catholics will be shocked to find out how much their favourite theologians embraced the idea of natural law in the early to mid 20th century

yep! wish I figured this out 2 years ago! lol

I don't know why coffee shops work better for writing a thesis but they do. maybe it is the forced minimalism when writing. Regardless. Found out the Starbucks nearby opens at 5am. Pretty much going to be here every day lol.

Just learned a fun fact:

Fulton Sheen gave a talk at a conference sponsored by the 'Abendland' Journal in the interwar period. crazy.

it is a good thing to just check where you started today when writing and realizing "holy smokes, I actually wrote 4 pages so far today and should be able to squeeze out a couple more".

6 ain't too shabby for a day's work!

One of the annoying things about doing historical research into various obscure German thinkers is finding out current critiques of Neo-Scholasticism (such as: they took on Kantian epistemology) was already made by German theologians. In the 1850s.

“an ideal and pure Church, separated from the earth, does not exist; only the one Church of Christ, embodied in history." Pope Leo XIV

AMEN

Kinda weird and amazing how central the concept of analogy has become the driving 'word' of my doctoral thesis. It's been pretty exciting to find that concept become so important, since it was so unexpected!

after doing this set up. I wrote a new major section intro (about 3-4 pages) in an hour. was so easy, directional, and narrowing in. huge massive victory.

btw, saw your email. I am just....in the throws of major revamping to my huge section and just trying to give most mental attention to that. hopefully....Wednesday I can send it to supervisors. I'm behind on ALL email because of this.

we need you to remain sarcastic!

weirdly, I've encountered a few. but also it has demonstrated to me that they are missing something with Balthasar. And usually comes from something much deeper and unannounced that they may not even be able to give word to.

I wish I figured this out like 2 years ago. I would have saved myself soooooo much heartache. because boy oh boy. as I move along, I notice issues, where I'm stretched too far, etc. I am narrowing hard and fast in ways I could never do when I just wrote things in a Word doc hoping it would work.

Addendum: and the best part is, as each substructure gets constructed, I can see pretty quickly if there is a higher level issue. For example, 1.1.2 and 1.1.2.1 (and even 1.1.1) kinda are all the same thing so I can simplify the structure later on in review.

Essentially looks like this. then under each numbered paragraph, I write the actual paragraph. The visualness keeps me focused. The 'type' of paragraph I've got on a side list as 6 different types. Then when I edit, I don't need to worry about structure or connection: it's already been done! 3/3

1) Major Section Checklist: Lay out the claims (subsections of major section) that need to be proven for the major section's claim

2) Minor section movements: what are the steps needed to demonstrate this claim

3) Paragraphs to execute movement: type of paragraph and its 1 sentence purpose

2/3

I think I've cracked the nut of for my thesis writing.

Issue was never conceptual grasp or ark. It was granular argumentation & linear articulation. My brain doesn't work that way.

Developed a system in the last 48 hours that I think will save me a ton of time in the next four months.

1/3

The swings between hopelessness and exhilaration when writing a thesis is kinda wild.

Each of you is saying, "I belong to Apollos," or "I belong to the evangelical ethos of Bishop Barron," or I belong to Cephas," or "I belong to Christ."

Is Christ divided? Was the evangelical ethos of Bishop Barron crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of his evangelical ethos?"

I think it's a bad idea to have multiple publishers authorized for the new Liturgy of the Hours, for this reason alone:

differing page numbers

We will no longer be able to say to a group of people (especially of those new to the breviary) go to page ___.