I am a Chrestian. I practice chrestianity.
I worship God the Father through His one and only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit. I worship the Word that was in the beginning and was with God and was God and became flesh and dwelt among us full of grace and truth. That makes me a Christian.
Because I worship the Word, I like words. I enjoy language and turns of phrase that capture the good, the true and the beautiful. I like the way words sound and the way they paint mental pictures and furnish intellectual living rooms. I utilize this blog as a place to catalog what I come across in my readings when I find it fascinating and/or helpful in articulating or clariying the Christian message and worldview. This makes me a practitioner of chrestomathy*.
I am a Christian who enjoys chrestomathy. In other words, I'm a Chrestian.
*Chrestomathy (/krɛˈstɒməθi/ kreh-STOM-ə-thee; from the Ancient Greekχρηστομάθεια “desire of learning” = χρηστός “useful” + μανθάνω “learn”) is a collection of selected literary passages (usually from a single author); a selection of literary passages from a foreign language assembled for studying the language; or a text in various languages, used especially as an aid in learning a subject.
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