THE COLLECTED WORKS of MTR. ADOLPHA

[Bogatyr 335]

THE COLLECTED WORKS

of Mtr. Adolpha Yohānāh

 

 

Mother Adolpha Yohānāh (born, von Alstreim) (1951–2062) was a Priestess, later Magistra, theologian, dialectician, and author of many works contributing to the teleology of God. Parented by H.P. Harrentzedak I, permitted by St. Caius I, and ordained by Deunoro I, her times may be summed in brief words and of briefer character: preaching, teaching, writing, journeying. With the support of Fr. Wenceslas Bainbridge, she founded the Priestly Philolexian Fraternity of Saint Jude (FSPST) for love of the marriage between the Word and reason. Adolpha maintained that the priest was succeeded by his contribution to dialogue and deconstruction, void of novelty, polity, and vanity, to which ends she wrote: “Inasmuch as the Lord speaks once, and Man must yearn to hear twice, so it behooves the lover of the Word, the philolexian, to incline himself to what is spoken from on high.” In this pursuit, she formalised the dialectic, also, the Form of Intention, which forms the backbone of theological dialogue. She rejected office, rank, signification save for philolexian, for which she is buried on Lemon Hill without headstone, her face toward the earth and away from the world. 

 

Heinrich, her father, was Prince of Merryweather; Alexandra, her mother, was Princess of Merryweather. Born to their domains, she renounced her possession between 1966 and 1967, hence we find her successively at Veletz, the Apostolic Commonwealths, and finally at Lemon Hill. Her noble person repudiated, she was founded in juridical tutelage and substitute care by H.P. Harrentzedak I until her ordination in 1986. Death prevented the friends of the FSPST from the completion of her monument work, the Canonis Apologetica, which was detailed and accepted only as far as the end of the first question.

 

On the day of 12 Hash-shel Ovyn, 2060, she set aside the pen and would write no more. Gone of her strength, she is remembered as decrying, “Whence comes this honour that servants of God should carry wood for my hearth!” She died the next year, weakened significantly by malnutrition. Her bedside was attended by none sans one nun to whom she dictated her final proclamation of faith:

 

“I receive Thee my Lord, the price of my redemption, for Whose Love I have watched, studied, and laboured. I submit all wrongs, lapses, and erroneous bills to the correction of the Temple of the True Faith, by whom they will be publicised.”

 

THE FSPST: RULE AND DEVOTIONAL

 

THE RULE OF THE FSPST (2026). A rule of the conduct and detail of the Church dialectic. Successively supported and expounded by the work of Fr. Wenceslas Bainbridge.

CANONIS THEODICAE (2026). Fr. Bainbridge systematically explores the Problem of Evil, the interpretation and signification of Canonist theodicy.

LEX THEODICAE (2036). Disputations against the fragility of Tiberias I’s law, Fr. Bainbridge.

 

N.B. Many of Adolpha’s works after the establishment of the FSPST are contained in its canon, but are discounted for their classification in other sections.

 

THE APOLOGETICS

Consisting of the capstone of Adolpha’s corpus, the incomplete Canonis Apologetica and supporting tracts.

 

CANONIS APOLOGETICA (1987). The first part in Adolpha’s intended apologetic canon. Details the ontology of God.

 

THESES AND SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY (DEONTOLOGY)

 

ON INNOCENCE: THE NECESSITY OF GUILT (1981). Commentary on the interaction of guilt with how to lead a virtuous life.

ON FREE WILL: HOW WE EXIST IN GOD'S BREATH (1985). Commentary on the metaphysics of providence.

JUSTICE AND LAW: PREDICATION (2036). Counted toward her polemical works.

 

POLEMICS

 

DIALOGUES WITH AN ACOLYTE: APOLOGETICS FOR THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN (2019). Adolpha debates a complementarian.

TRACT: REGNUM DEI (2019). In response to Fr. Bainbridge’s treatise on the predestination of unity.

JUSTICE AND LAW: PREDICATION (2036). How can human law be fair if lawmakers are fallen?

 

Of foreign authorship;

ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PRIESTHOOD (2023). Transcribed and published by Ilia Aeneth, lifelong friend of Adolpha.

 

THE HOMILIES

Written as polemicals, by Adolpha, under the nom-de-plume Fr. Abraham Sheen.

 

HOMILY I: LOVE AND WAR (2021). God is not contingent, emotionality in wartime is idolatry.

HOMILY II: MARTYRDOM IS ONLY HOLY WHEN ORDERLY (2026). Distinguishes martyrdom in confessio recta from martyrdom in causa recta.

 

And all ye Holy Innocents,

Pray for us.

 

[KaiserJacobII 1461]

Lothaire lights a candle. It is placed to a window, one stained by both time and art, nature and intention; one which is holding back light rain. He places a bronzen cross to his lips. He holds it until it imprints red in the palm of his hand. Then, davening the creeping blued-darkness of evening out of his mind, he recites: "Glorified and sanctified be God’s great name throughout the world, which He has created according to His will..."

 

 

[LithiumSedai 5750]

Egon Albrecht, a scion of Alstreim recently come of age, vowed to read and archive the works of his kinswoman - a theologian, it seems, more prolific than Saint Calliope, and worthy of appreciation despite the renunciation of her ranks.