Christian Classics

Faith is Paradoxical

“All Christianity is rooted in the parado-xical whether one accepts it as a believ-er, or rejects it precis-ely because it is para-doxical… A once fiery and spiritual steed may come to loose its mettle and pride of carriage when it is held for hire and ridden by every bungler.” Soren Kierkegaard

Ready-made Truth

“The dialogic means of seeking truth is counter posed to official monologism, which pretends to possess a ready-made truth, and it is also counter posed to the naive self-confi-dence of those people who think that they know something, that is, who think that they possess certain truths.” Michael Bakhtin

This Incredible Need to Believe

“Christian Faith rests upon an indelible confidence in the existence of an Ideal Father, and upon ab-solute love for this loving Father, who is seen, quite simply, as the foundation of the speaking subject, who is, consequently, none other than the subject of loving speech. The Father of Agape or Amor, therefore, not Eros, although […]

The Underwritten God

“All good art and literature begin in immanence. But they do not stop there. … It is the enterprise and privilege of the aesthetic to quicken into lit presence the continuum between temporality and eter-nity, between matter and spirit, between man and ‘the other’. It is in this common and exact sense that poiesis opens […]

Mimetic Desire

“Jesus seems to say that the only way to avoid violence is to imitate me, and imitate the Father. So the idea that mimetic desire itself is bad makes no sense. It is true, how-ever, that occasionally I say ‘mimetic desire’, when I really mean only the type of mimetic desire that generates mimetic rivalry […]

The Attitude

“If my project is neither about rituals nor a speculative exer-cise for intellectuals, what is it? First of all, I seek to convey an attitude, a spiritual attitude: yes, we are open to the infinite. Let’s say it, let’s show it. It’s palpable, it’s not just “words.” Luc Nancy

The Narrowness of Caste Spirit

“All Jewish short comings—tactlessness, political stupidity, inferiority complexes and money-grubbing—are characteristic of up-starts. There have always been Jews who did not think it worth while to change their humane attitude and their natural insight into reality for the narrowness of caste spirit or the essential unreality of financial transactions.” Hannah Arendt

The Measure of Man

“May, if life is sheer toil, a man Lift his eyes and say: so I too wish to be? Yes. As long as Kindness, The Pure, still stays with his heart, man Not unha-ppily measures himself Against the godhead.” Hoelderlin

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