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Dante’s Purgatory, XVIII: “As much as reason sees”
On November 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In lenten series: Dante's Divine Comedy, mildly theological
Dante packs a lot into this Canto. We are going to have to attack this rather like I attack a buffet: go for what is familiar first, and then fill up the edges with the other stuff. Virgil is attempting to explain to Dante the nature of love. Think love with a capital L, and [...]
Interesting thought from our Anglican Primate Fred Hiltz on books, & burnings & September 11:
That day, it seems to me, should be marked by gatherings for prayer, and expressions of mutual respect for our various faith traditions and the texts we all regard as sacred.
Here are a few [...]
I”ll have to confess that we had ocassion to rent the latest incarnation of Brideshead Revisited. The movie lacked a great deal; it missed many of the central themes of Waugh’s work. Most notable, it mistook mere nostalgia for memory. In a brilliant little piece of writing, Thomas HIbbs pointed out some of the [...]
I will be intrigued to read John’s book – he’s currently here giving some talks at a conference on missional theology. The title and the phrasing can be troubling: what does plurality of truth look like? Does it simply mean an infinite open-endedness to every question? Part of John’s starting point is the evident [...]
Nobody, including Jesus’s followers, was expecting one person to be bodily raised from the dead in the middle of history. The stories of the Resurrection are certainly not “wish-fulfilments” or the result of what dodgy social science calls “cognitive dissonance”. First-century Jews who followed would-be messiahs knew that if your leader got killed by the [...]
It seems to me that the further back in religious history one goes, the more acceptable it is to apply the “metaphor” principle to an event. Or rather, perhaps I should say in all fairness, a supposed event. Take, for example, the idea that the resurrection of Jesus was only a “metaphorical” event. A teaching [...]
guest posting by Thomas Brauer of the Barnabas Initiative
A word…
There’s a word which gets thrown about to describe dominant modes of thought, or structures of behaviour – that word is “Paradigm”. And I love that word. Not just the way it sounds (talk about a money word!), but what it describes. Tucked [...]
There is a wonderful museum in Jerusalem containing the Shrine of the Book. It houses the oldest “bible” in the world. It is a testament to the place of sacred text, sacred word, in the life of Judaism, and by extension, to Christians who hold to a sacred text.
Now Pete didn’t say anything [...]
One was St Thomas Aquinas:
I answer that, It was necessary for man’s salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason. Firstly, indeed, because man is directed to God, as to an end that surpasses the grasp of his reason: “The eye hath not seen, [...]
At first, man loves himself for his own sake. That is the flesh, which can appreciate nothing beyond itself. Next, he perceives that he cannot exist by himself, and so begins by faith to seek after God, and to love Him as something necessary to his own welfare. That is the second degree, to love [...]
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