Ludwig Wittgenstein, Letter to Drury “Dear Drury, “I have thought a fair amount about our conversation on Sunday and I would like to say, or rather not to say but write, a few things about the conversations. Mainly I think this: Don’t think about yourself, but think about others, e.g. your patients. You said in […]
A. Ernest Becker Men aren’t built to be gods, to take in the whole world; they are built like other creatures, to take in the piece of ground in front of their noses. from The Denial of Death, (Free Press, 1997), 178. B. Rowan Williams Theology must rediscover itself as a language that assists us in […]
Kathryn Tanner on the risks of Christian discourse “The problems of Christian practice that prompt theological reflection are legion. If we narrow them down to those that afflict religious discourse, it is possible to give a rough classification of them. First, Christians may exhibit a tendency to mis-speak: they may make statements whose well-formed character or […]
Robert Jenson on theology and ecumenism “It is becoming increasingly clear that reestablishment of ecclesial fellowship between East and West and within the West across the divisions begun at the Reformation will not occur by any straightforward continuation of [the efforts of modern ecumenism]. It increasingly appears that no degree of theological convergence can by […]
Since the arms of the crucified embrace the neighbour, genuinely to live in Christ is always to live in the neighbour as well. Never shallow, Luther insisted we live in the neighbour [in three ways. First,] by sharing her need. This isn’t especially difficult, since we are meeting her scarcity with our abundance. In the second […]
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