Saturday, July 19, 2014

Hegel can be so (deceptively?) orthodox!

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"the instrumentality of philosophy in introducing these dogmas into the Christian religion, is no sufficient ground for asserting that ...

The Great Seal of the United States

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OBVERSE : E PLURIBUS UNUM (out of many, one): Was there in the proposal of the first committee, which consisted of John Adams, Benjamin F...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

"all time is lost, to which we will not have attached . . . something capable of passing on into . . . eternity."

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"from this important distinction between time considered in itself, and time [considered] in relation to eternity, I draw this infallib...

The Word became word, or The Word became flesh?

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1963: "This verse — 'the Word became flesh' — is the Great Divide.  In all other religions it is Word became word — a philoso...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

"the preaching of the holy gospel itself is also in essence an absolution. . . . although not all believe [it]".

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"We cannot censure or reject the general absolution for this reason:  the preaching of the holy gospel itself is also in essence an abs...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

"This is the way, walk ye in it."

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"O God, who show the light of your truth  to those who go astray,  so that they may return to the right path,  give all who for the fai...
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...