Nicholas Lash on intellectual maturity “I now want to suggest, by way of conclusion, a simple model in terms of which we might locate the various ways in which individuals, and social groups, relate to the authority of the past. Like any model, it must not be asked to do too much, but it may […]
Clifford Geertz on the adventure of intellectual inquiry “An affection for what doesn’t fit and won’t comport, reality out of place, has connected us to the leading theme of the cultural history of “Modern Times.” For that history has indeed consisted of one field of thought after another having to discover how to live on […]
The Oxen by Thomas Hardy (1915) Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. / “Now they are all on their knees,” / An elder said as we sat in a flock / By the embers in hearthside ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where / They dwelt in their strawy pen, / Nor did […]
On the Soul A. Nicholas Lash “Any attempt to speak sensibly of God as ‘spirit’ must first take the long road through an effort to recapture a less distorted understanding of what being human means. “Discussion about how ‘consciousness’ is best understood is at present a very lively field in a wide range of scientific disciplines and […]
I read: ‘No man can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.’ — And it is true: I cannot call him Lord; because that says nothing to me. I could call him ‘the paragon,’ ‘God’ even — or rather, I can understand it when he is called thus; but I cannot utter the […]
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