Christian Classics

The Loss of Tradition

“The undeniable loss of tradition in the modern world does not at all entail a loss of the past, for tradition and past are not the same, as the believers in tradition on one side and the believers in progress on the other would have us believe – whereby it makes little difference that the […]

Waves of Sameness

“From the view-point of racism, there is no exterior, there are no people on the out-side… Racism never detects the particles of the other; it propagates waves of sameness until those who resist identification have been wiped out.” Deleuze and Guattari

Uniformity is not Catholic

“The first is unity in diversity. Uniformity is not Catholic, it is not Christian. Rather, unity in diversity. Catholic unity is different but it is one: this is curious! The cause of diversity is also the cause of unity: the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does two things: he creates unity in diversity. Unity does […]

Theocratic Hope

“Unshakeable belief in a specific moral centre, which bestows meaning in world history on the Jewish people, transcends the sphere of pure secularization. I would not even deny that in it a remnant of theocratic hope also accompanies the re-entry into world history of the Jewish people that at the same time signifies the truly […]

Meeting with the Other

“As such, the poem speaks; it speaks out; it speaks to. The meaning, the existential modes of art, music and literature are functional within the experience of our meeting with the other. Al1 aesthetics, all critical and hermeneutic discourse is an attempt to clarify the paradox and opaqueness of that meeting as well as its […]

Universal Science

“If one wishes to draw a line between the modern age and the world we have come to live in, he may well find it in the difference between a science which looks upon nature from a universal standpoint and thus acquires complete mastery over her, on the one hand, and a truly “universal” science, […]

The Call for Justice

“That is the condition of historicity, revolution, morals, ethics, and progress. But justice is not the law. Justice is what gives us the impulse, the drive, or the movement to improve the law, that is, to deconstruct the law. Without a call for justice we would not have any interest in deconstructing the law. That […]

Articulate Alternative Images of Reality

“Prophetic imagination describes the activity of prophets of social justice, their ‘capacity to generate, evoke, and articulate alternative images of reality that counter what hegemonic power and knowledge have declared to be impossible’. Likewise, poetic imagination is not just important for expressing personal experience, but also critical for the well-being of society, and is closely […]

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