"Luther" 2017?

they will celebrate a Luther disregarding the essentials he so ardently claimed to know

i.e., they will remake Luther in their own preferred image(s)

in the spirit of Tertullian and Ockham...

Tertullian rejects pre-existence spirit
Ockham transcendent

Luther's inner darkness

rejecting "inner light"
Luther believed in a kind of inner darkness

imago dei?

or more realistically?
imago simia

Herman's "Cave and Light" conceived in the cave

Arthur Herman's Cave and Light was written by a somewhat conscious cave-dweller, for unconscious cave-dwellers

another Calvary of Calvary

the new film Calvary (2014), can lead to deeper ideas and reflections on the human being, good and evil, the question of God...

so it is best to not learn the mundane thoughts of its writer-director John Michael McDonagh

Darwin contra Dionysius

consider Darwin of Down and (pseudo-)Dionysius the Areopagite on Nature

vita contemplativa in Moscow?

a vita contemplativa amidst Moscow's multi-million-fold, multifarious vita activa is realistically, but truly, irrelevant

afterlife?

beforelife?

fallen happiness?

in the "pursuit of happiness" most have forgotten "the fall of man"

Socrates' and Moses'?

what has Athens to do with Mt Sinai?
Socrates' daemon and Moses' I am?

augustine and nietzsche sub specie...

Augustine seeks in his life and writings to make sense of his life, world and time sub specie dei
Nietzsche sub specie nihil

crossing to that world

how few are really willing and able to erect an inner cross amidst this world's surrounding life for that in another

truth or academics

heading for truth...

captivated by knowledge institutionalized

Kerouac's Tour Grand?

is Kerouac's road-trip and its account to be judged great...
if compared to that of Herodotus, Pausanias, Marco Polo,...
Grand Tourists
Goethe fleeing Weimar in Italy
Bayard Taylor afoot in Europe
the daemonic Richard Burton...

and if not in his life on the road
then in his engagement with such precursors?

seems rather he traveled lite

sophophobes in philosophy departments?

philosophy                                    phobosophy/sophophobia

"miracle, mystery, and authority"?

is not the problem now already rather their absence

hell yeah

was Voltaire not wrong about God needing be invented...
rather hell

"the (all-too-human) Humanities"

the "Humanities departments" have for decades not themselves much merited any lingering aura of authority they still may have been imagined to bear from their distant ancestors Religion and Philosophy

the ultimate "meta-narrative" ?

be  protests, rejections, disbelievings, condemnations,...
moral and/or intellectual
erudite and/or emotional
Faustian and/or purely scholarly

even the rejection of "narratives" and meta-narratives is done sub specie aeternitatis
(be that only filled by a ?)

post-mortems

compare the concepts of the post-mortem states of Dante and Goethe

on the road to Damascus, on the road to Vincennes

compare the experiences on the roads, of Paul and Rousseau
abstractly stated: their contexts, experiences, confrontations, anthropologies, conclusions
e.g.
against the Old Adam for the New
against the Civic for the Natural