Sublime

the world but by the church.

“God,” to Thomas, is merely a label we place at the spot where we wonder, “Why is there something rather than nothing? What does it all mean? Why anything rather than nothing?” Aquinas knew he could not provide a fully satisfying answer. “God” is the label Christians use for the human question of “meaning.” As McCabe concludes, “We do not and canno

To read Augustine in the twenty-first century is to gain a vantage point that makes all of our freedom look like addiction.

la grande découverte postmoderne, c'est l'idée générale que les visions du monde se développent - que ni le monde ni le moi ne sont simplement donnés d'avance. Devant cette découverte du « non donné d'avance », un théoricien peut alors choisir l'une des deux routes qui traversent ce paysage postmoderne neuf et déroutant, où rien ne peut plus servir

Radical Hermeneutics was also something of a manifesto for a philosophy that mattered. The introduction was titled “Restoring Life to Its Original Difficulty”; the final chapter, “Openness to Mystery.” This was a postmodernism with philosophical chops and a religious heartbeat.

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