Saturday, July 12, 2014

Hegel on the specifically Jewish experience of "the universal fatum of the Roman world", "the fate that crushed down the gods and all genial life in its hard service"

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"Here, then, misery is not the stupid immersion in a blind fate, but a boundless energy of longing." "“Das Elend ist also h...

"before the Islamic conquests practically every liturgical innovation in Christendom began in the East, despite the persistent myth that Eastern liturgies have come down from apostolic times unchanged."

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      Robert F. Taft, "'Communion' from the tabernacle — a liturgico-theological oxymoron,"  Worship  88, no 1 (January 20...

"Conservatism should be a defense of government against its abuse by liberals."

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      Roger Scruton, "The good of government," First things no. 244 (June/July 2014):  36 (33-38) .  "the liberal mind-set ....
Friday, July 11, 2014

Qualificatio theologica, or A condemnation writ in Blood

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"And so it was, then, that by a unanimous and most just vote they condemned, deposed and anathematized him for being a violator and adu...

Mendelson on "The secret Auden"

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"By refusing to claim moral or personal authority, Auden placed himself firmly on one side of an argument that pervades the modern int...

Plenitude of being

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"existence [(esse)] taken simply insofar as it includes in itself every perfection of existing, is more eminent than life and all subse...

"The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent reality."

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     J. G. Ballard, as quoted by Zadie Smith, in "On 'Crash'," The New York review of books 61, no. 12 (July 10, 2014):  1...