Christian Classics

KINGDOM OF TRUTH AND JUSTICE

‘Among other things,’ the prisoner recounted, ‘I said that all authority is violence over people, and that a time will come when there will be no authority of the Caesars, nor any other authority. Man will pass into the kingdom of truth and justice, where generally there will be no need for any authority.’ Jesus […]

THE CROWD IS UNTRUTH

“The crowd is untruth. Therefore was Christ crucified, because he, even though he addressed himself to all, would not have to do with the crowd, because he would not in any way let a crowd help him, because he in this respect absolutely pushed away, would not found a party, or allow balloting, but would […]

PROPHETIC VOICE SHATTERS SETTLED REALITY

“The Bible is our firm guarantee that in a world of technological naiveté and ideological reductionism, prophetic construals of another world are still possible, still worth doing, still longingly received by those who live at the edge of despair, resignation and conformity. Our preferred language is to call such speech prophetic, but it we might […]

JOAN OF ARC AND HISTORY

“I was talking about Joan of Arc. The sources about her are pretty reliable. This is a perfect example of persecution and ascription of supernatural powers to someone considered a witch and disrupter of public order. An instance like this should be of great interest to the Jews because of what they have suffered in […]

EVERYTHING MANIFESTS HIM

“Everything that [the human being] and the world is bears traces of God, but, in the end, it never manifests him. There is a certain similarity, but it dissolves in an ever-greater dissimilarity. Everything points to God, but he is the Wholly Other, the Unknown… There is a via affirmativa, but it issues in the […]

DESIRE MONEY

“Men, then, only desire money, and money is an abstraction, a form of reflection… Men do not envy the gifts of others, their skill, or the love of their women; they only envy each other’s money. These men would die with nothing to repent of, believing.” Soren Kierkegaard

POOR ENVY

“Men, then, only desire money, and money is an abstraction, a form of reflection… Men do not envy the gifts of others, their skill, or the love of their women; they only envy each other’s’ money. These men would die with nothing to repent of, believing.” Soren Kierkegaard

Naming of God

“Even on the ethical and moral plane, biblical faith adds nothing to the predicates ‘good’ and ‘obligatory’ as these are applied to action. Biblical agap– belongs to an economy of the gift, possessing a meta-ethical character, which makes me say that there is no such thing as a Christian morality… but a common morality… that […]

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