Author Topic: Masculine Compassion (Read 806 times)

Graham · « **on:** April 20, 2012, 10:54:07 PM »

Matt Beck, who unfortunately seems to have ceased posting here, wrote a profound article on what he calls masculine compassion, in other words the nature of a manly and fatherly love. Reading it helped me clarify how I understand Christ's love for his Church. I hope it will be similarly helpful for others here.

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Speaking as a man (that is to say, not generically as a member of the human race, but specifically as a male), there are certain things I just know—call it masculine intuition, if you will. And from that ineffable font of knowledge there comes also a fine sense for the characteristically masculine type of compassion; a type which is not widely discussed today, for it has largely been buried beneath two centuries of modern socialist-egalitarian rhetoric. That is not to say that there are none who now practice it; but they do so, in a manner of speaking, out of sight, in the hidden courses of life where the warmth of recognition seldom penetrates. It is not much admired openly, still less is it called forth and given its right and its due; for it moves against the basic presuppositions of our era, and consequently it is proscribed, ridiculed, and even eviscerated by the whole tone and timbre of our public existence.

The full version here.

s2srea · « **Reply #1 on:** April 22, 2012, 09:31:35 AM »

An excellent article. Thanks for sharing it. Its tragic that he stopped posting here though, isn't it? I found him very intellectual and a well-balanced addition to the forum.

wallflower · « **Reply #2 on:** April 23, 2012, 09:29:28 PM »

Bump. :smile:

Graham · « **Reply #3 on:** April 25, 2012, 11:25:19 AM »

Quote from: s2srea

An excellent article. Thanks for sharing it. Its tragic that he stopped posting here though, isn't it? I found him very intellectual and a well-balanced addition to the forum.

It is too bad. I think he was disappointed, angered, and embarrassed by some reactions to some of his posts, and decided that his ideas and personality were out of tune with the tenor on CathInfo. Well, that's partly true, but that's what made him valuable to us.