Dostoyevsky, Don Quixote and the Bible

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.

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

guardian ideas & emotions

surely traditions' guardian angels
                                                     (and likely demons)
are long since secreted in traditions of ideas and emotions
in and by which
men and women
live and lived,
move and moved,
and have long since had their being
(be they demos or aristos)

homo insapiens...

the animal which needs to be a creature

"spiritual quest" vs ...

academia?

diagnosis: ahistoria

day-dreaming...
                          as if out of history

"Theology!...for Man's sake!"

saving God's Good name and reputation
                                     
                                        for Man's sake

                                        for mens' sakes*


*and women, animals, babies, trees, et al

"Theology!...for Man's sake!"

saving God's Good name and reputation
                                     
                                        for Man's sake

avoiding "the abyss"

somnophilia beliefs

theophilia?

theophobia?

historical head vs heart at Harvard

the head of Harvard started in the Christian world
but it has been a long time since its heart was in it

"If does not exist, then everything is permitted."

"If God...."
or the Devil?

essentially two existentialisms

originally internal
now the fear and anxiety is conceived -- by those who wouldn't know -- externally

cosmological horizon and

live we at our psychological horizon?

That's extraordinary!

those (theologians) rejecting extraordinary experience

they must seek "God" in the ordinary

Honest to ?

the proper title?
had JTA Robinson been more honest to himself?

flying creeds?

are our credos not like kites of words
wherewith we might fly from this world,
hoping we catch the right winds?

God in other words...MIA

50 years ago, JTA Robinson tried in his Exploration to explain the missing "God", in other words
unconvincingly

sub specie aeternitatis?

or sub specie materia?

"Where art thou?"

Where art Thou?

somnitheologized

most of "theology" having been written as if in a dream

whether God be or not...

the human being is a creature that needs One

theology's task: saving "God"?

theologians trying to save "God" from non-being

existence essentially

when God essentially was lost
we found ourselves alone existing

imago dei?

we long imagined so

James' "once-born" souls?

maybe rather only once-dead?

Tillich and Cervantes? (and Goethe?)

is there much difference, in Reality,  between Systematic Theology and The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha?

(or even Goethe's "Bruchstücke einer großen Konfession"?)

the "Ground of Being"?

more like "the sky..."
or perhaps in reality: empty space?

Missing God Dept

theologians are really like detectives...
trying to locate a missing God

Harvard Divinity School at 200

Fausts need not apply

contradictory apocalypses

what many hope for is a kind and caring apocalypse
while there are those who crave the grim reaper's

religious replacement

of creeds

Divine intervention?

Divine non-intervention is the problem!