Naviget: GAFCON Unfurls its Sails
Naviget: GAFCON Unfurls its Sails
By Charles Raven
http://anglicanspread.org/
May 12, 2011
'Divine Summons' an article by theologian Gilbert Meilaender, is a profound reflection on the biblical nature of calling. He notes that in Virgil's epic poem, the Aeneid, Aeneas as 'the man whom heaven calls' to be the founder of Rome, must not only persevere through great difficulties, but also resist the temptation to settle down. Driven by a storm on to the shore of North Africa, Aeneas and his weary Trojans find respite in Carthage and he falls deeply in love with its Queen, Dido. He is happy and content, but Jupiter sends Mercury to remind Aeneas of his calling, summed up in one Latin word, Naviget. - 'the man should sail'. Meilaender comments 'it is only by hearing and answering the divine summons, by participating in my calling, that I can come to know who I am. We are not who we think we are; we are who God calls us to be'.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Charles Raven
http://anglicanspread.org/
May 12, 2011
'Divine Summons' an article by theologian Gilbert Meilaender, is a profound reflection on the biblical nature of calling. He notes that in Virgil's epic poem, the Aeneid, Aeneas as 'the man whom heaven calls' to be the founder of Rome, must not only persevere through great difficulties, but also resist the temptation to settle down. Driven by a storm on to the shore of North Africa, Aeneas and his weary Trojans find respite in Carthage and he falls deeply in love with its Queen, Dido. He is happy and content, but Jupiter sends Mercury to remind Aeneas of his calling, summed up in one Latin word, Naviget. - 'the man should sail'. Meilaender comments 'it is only by hearing and answering the divine summons, by participating in my calling, that I can come to know who I am. We are not who we think we are; we are who God calls us to be'.Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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