Christianity’s First Doctrine (logically, not historically) the doctrine of God’s Trinity is not some further teaching, additional to a teaching which would count as a ‘doctrine of God,’ but simply is the Christian doctrine of God, the Christian account of how the word ‘God’ is to be used. from Easter In Ordinary (1988), 267, n21; […]
Miscellaneous Liturgical Reflections from Robert Jenson A. The Liturgy and Embodiment The disappearance of ritual and art and physical expression from our ordinary communal life is the heart of our practical atheism. from Visible Words (Fortress, 1978), 28. Why has the church always said we should absolve by putting hands on the head of the person being […]
George Steiner on … 1. Hermeneutics A master-reader (or viewer or listener) equipped, in the case of literature, with linguist-historical knowledge, ideally sensitive to the polysemic, metamorphic lives of language, inspiredly intuitive in his or her empathy – a Coleridge reading Wordsworth, a Karl Barth glossing Romans, a Mandelstam responding to Dante – will come […]
Variations on a theme in theological anthropology 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 […]
A Pascal Miscellany 136 I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. 924 It is true that there is something painful in beginning to practice piety, but this pain does not arise from the beginnings of piety within us, […]
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