Saturday, April 17, 2021

No mere braggart of anticlericalism

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     "The consistent [(logique), true, or perfect] atheist can take no interest in life.  That is the true wisdom, but it is, in my op...
Friday, April 16, 2021

What has not been assumed can be shirked; what has been assumed is inescapable

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"This figural identification—one of antitype to type, of Jesus' [filial] fear to our own [filial] fear—engaged the remarkable parad...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

"Scripture is not the property of the specialists"

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"Scripture is not the property of the specialists.  It is a public garden in which all Christians have the right to wander. . . .  Why ...
Friday, April 9, 2021

A psychiatrist who did not experience the five stages of Death and dying

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"The process of dying cannot be adequately understood by applying a rigid phenomenological framework that does not do justice to the re...
Friday, April 2, 2021

Beauty puts a legitimate thumb on the scales

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      "The encounter with beauty can become the wound of the arrow that strikes the soul and thus makes it see clearly, so that hencefo...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

"That's not how my Aana taught me to read the Bible."

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"the first epistle of John. . . .  was composed at a time when the emergence of a new group of intellectuals, the so-called Gnostics, r...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

A church in the heart of which heathenism is alive and well

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"The appearance of the church in the modern era is determined by this, that in a completely new way it has become a church of heathens,...