a Russian specialist in Dostoyevsky (depressed the day she realized she had read all that he had written) said that he suggested offering Don Quixote to God as a plea for humanity...
perhaps we might offer the Bible and all of theology as about as realistic, instead.
50+. Thoughts, observations and insights with 4 decades with "religious studies", theology, philosophy, history...but intending less sub specie academiae, or sub specie scientiae, and rather sub specie aeternitatis. "Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, erwirb es, um es zu besitzen", Goethe: Faust I, Nacht, Vers 682. [Photo from Mt. Scopus]
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Friday, December 30, 2016
the mundane mind...
it is less that their lives are near fully mundane
-- in thought, word and deed --
as that they so rarely even dream they might find it other
-- in thought, word and deed --
as that they so rarely even dream they might find it other