Sublime

Augustine represents the Christianity Camus doesn’t believe, which might make him more Augustinian than he realizes—and might make us more Augustinian than we imagined. An Augustinianism sans grace might nonetheless be a gateway.

Przywara is more optimistic: Rather than requiring debunking, Heidegger’s work, in his estimation, invites supplementation by the theologian. Przywara takes Heidegger’s ‘misprision’ of Aquinas to consist not in a misidentification of the analogans of man’s being, but in denying the contingency of human existence altogether. Heidegger’s ontology, he

a teacher sees to the heart of the matter and pulls things through to other things and then more things, connecting what others do not even see as connected—suffering to hope to structures to desire to agents to joy, and all to God in the depths, always in the depths.

D’Alembert was a gifted mathematician who aimed to bring to all the sciences the clarity of arithmetic and geometry. “The creation motive of the Christian religion gave way to faith in the creative power of scientific thought which seeks its ground of certainty only within itself.”

Auschwitz God died, and we are alone in a pitiless universe.

Marsiglio, on the contrary, still aims at preserving the unity of the Catholic faith, but wishes this to be done by democratic means, not by the papal absolutism. In practice, most Protestants, when they acquired the government, merely substituted the King for the Pope, and thus secured neither liberty of private judgement nor a democratic method