User:Frjwoolley

Here's what I wrote on the "new user log" when I began editing Wikipedia in a big way (in May 2005):


 * My primary areas of interest (at least of knowledgeable interest) are theology and Church history, English literature (up to about 1900), private-eye stories, Romance languages, and various bits of American and European history and culture. I've been using Wikipedia for a few years, and just recently started fixing typos and adding bits of information.

I am a deacon of the Eastern Orthodox Church ("Deacon John Saturus"), currently working on an M. A. in theology, and am the King of Talossa.

Please feel free to talk with me.

Beliefs, dogmatic and quirky
I believe:
 * The Nicene Creed and all the rest of the doctrine of the Seven Ecumenical Councils and the Orthodox Church
 * That everything in the Bible is true, and most of it to be taken literally
 * That Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the playwright we know as "Shakespeare"
 * That Richard III was (relatively) innocent, but was framed by the wicked Henry VII for the murders that he, Henry, had committed
 * That Whittaker Chambers told the truth

Enthusiams
I am vastly enthusiastic, and frequently bore my friends, about
 * The glorious all-holy ever-virgin lady Theotokos more-spacious-than-the-heavens, Saint Perpetua Martyr and her five companions (including my patron Saint Saturus), Saint Patrick equal-to-the-Apostles, the Desert Fathers, the Empress Saint Theodora; and the Roman Catholic saints Saint Francis and Saint Clare, Saint Catherine of Siena, Saint Joan of Arc (dearest, sweetest), Saint Teresa of Ávila, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
 * Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, Middle English; linguistics, grammar, etymology; Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd edition, unabridged; The Oxford English Dictionary
 * The Song of Songs
 * The Vulgate, the Church Fathers (especially Saint Augustine, Saint Leo the Great, Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Gregory Palamas); typology, the (old) Missale Romanum and Breviarium Romanum
 * Saint John Climacus and The Ladder of Divine Ascent, The Philokalia
 * Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Sir Gawain and the Grene Knight, Le Morte d'Arthur
 * Dante (the greatest poet), his Divina Commedia (the greatest poem), Ludovico Ariosto and Orlando Furioso, Torquato Tasso and Gerusalemme Liberata
 * Heraldry
 * The Book of Common Prayer, "William Shakespeare" (the other greatest poet), Edmund Spenser and The Faerie Queene, the King James Bible
 * De imitatione Christi, Le pratique de la présence de Dieu, Port-Royal
 * Charles I the royal martyr, Clarendon's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars, the Cavaliers
 * The Dream of the Red Chamber
 * Dr. Johnson, Edmund Burke, George Washington (the greatest President, the greatest American), The Constitution of the United States, Fisher Ames
 * Jane Austen (the greatest novelist), Anthony Trollope (the other greatest novelist), Margaret Oliphant, "sensation" novels, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Princess and the Goblin (the best children's book), Robert Louis Stevenson, "Q", Stanley J. Weyman, Rudyard Kipling
 * Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
 * The Tractarians, John Henry Newman
 * Thomas Babington Macaulay, Francis Parkman, William Hickling Prescott, Henry Adams
 * Baseball, backgammon, "Dirty nasty filthy hearts", Diplomacy, Tock
 * Sandro Botticelli, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, John William Waterhouse, Evelyn de Morgan, William Adolphe Bouguereau
 * Winnie-the-Pooh, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, J. R. R. Tolkien (whose The Lord of the Rings is the greatest literary work of the 20th century)
 * London, Los Angeles, Firenze, Roma, Venexia
 * Gregorian plainsong, Renaissance polyphony, Bach (heaven-inspired to write the Goldberg Variations, the Musikalisches Opfer, the Concerto for Two Violins in d minor, and so much more), Mozart, Beethoven; Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald; Dixieland
 * The Holy Royal Martyrs Saint Nicholas the Tsar, Saint Alexandra the Tsarina, the Grand Duchesses Saint Olga, Saint Tatiana, Saint Maria, and Saint Anastasia, and the Tsarevich Saint Alexei; also the Holy Martyr Saint Elizabeth Fyodorovna, Princess and Grand Duchess
 * Raymond Chandler (the greatest prose stylist of the 20th century), P. G. Wodehouse, Talbot Mundy, John D. MacDonald, Robertson Davies, Patrick O'Brian, Tim Powers, Lois McMaster Bujold, A Song of Ice and Fire, hardboiled fiction, science fiction
 * Humphrey Bogart (the greatest screen actor), Grace Kelly (the most beautiful screen actress); Alfred Hitchcock
 * Casablanca, The Big Sleep, film noir
 * Dr. Russell Kirk
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Wire, Veronica Mars, Arrested Development, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones
 * The Kingdom of Talossa

Articles I've started

 * The Bride of Lammermoor &mdash; The historical novel by Sir Walter Scott
 * Tyrannick Love &mdash; The tragedy by John Dryden
 * The Tempest (Dryden) &mdash; the adaptation by John Dryden and William D'Avenant of Shakespeare's comedy
 * An Evening's Love &mdash; the comedy by John Dryden
 * Hira Singh &mdash; a novel by Talbot Mundy
 * Luigi Rossini &mdash; the Italian engraver
 * Frances Eleanor Trollope &mdash; the English novelist

Articles I've contributed to in ways that strike me as reasonably important

 * Trinity &mdash; that is, God
 * Jesus/Rewrite &mdash; ditto
 * Holy Spirit &mdash; ditto
 * Nicene Creed
 * Doxology
 * Blessed Virgin Mary
 * Anglo-Catholicism
 * Oxford Movement
 * Anglican Use
 * Peter &mdash; the name
 * John Dryden &mdash; the Restoration poet and dramatist
 * Louis Hennepin &mdash; the unreliable historian
 * Owen Wister