What is the point…?
What is the point of learned disputations on the Trinity if you lack humility and consequently displease the Trinity?”
– Thomas à Kempis (d.1471), De Imitatione Christi
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Meditation on Origen: Berkeley to Ssanje Parish & Points in Between, August, 2012
Meditation on Ezekiel: Berkeley to Masisi & Points in Between, August, 2012
“It is Yahweh who speaks.”
In laudem Americanae ‘hamburger’…
Feast of the Passion and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, 2012 I walked into the library at Santa …
[H]uman good is heterogeneous…
[H]uman good is heterogeneous because the aims of the self are heterogeneous.
– John Rawls, American philosopher, A Theory of Justice (1971)
… for the sake of the American Empire …
Early modern wars fought in part over conflicting hopes for eternal joy with God and the shaping of a Christian society were ostensibly absurd, but apparently, to judge form the Iraq war, preemptive, secular killing for the sake of the American Empire and its way of life is supposed to make sense.
– Brad S. Gregory, historian, The Unintended Reformation (2012)
All definitions of civilization…
All definitions of civilization… belong to a conjugation which goes: ‘I am civilized, you are a culture, he is a barbarian.’
– Felipe Fernández-Armesto, British historian
… Why be envious because I am generous?
I choose to pay the last comer as much as I pay you. Have I no right to do what I like with my own? Why be envious because I am generous?
Matthew, 20:14b-15
Trouble for the shepherds of Israel…
Trouble for the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shepherds ought to feed their flock, yet you have fed on milk, you have dressed yourselves in wool, you have sacrificed the fattest sheep, but failed to feed the flock. You have failed to make weak sheep strong, or to care for the sick ones, or bandage the wounded ones. You have failed to bring back strays or look for the lost. On the contrary, you have ruled them cruelly and violently. For lack of a shepherd they have scattered, to become the prey of any wild animal; they have scattered far. My flock is straying this way and that, on mountains and on high hills; my flock has been scattered all over the country; no one bothers about them and no one looks for them.
Ezekiel, 34:2b-6 (The Jerusalem Bible)
My own… is my own…
My own mind is my own church.
– Thomas Payne, The Age of Reason (1794)
