"The" End?

?: "What is the chief end of man?"
Ans: Man's chief end is to know God, and to employ him forever.

battle of ideas?

ideomachia

logophoria

the mental condition via which mankind experiences the world

The Adventures of Don Quixote of Theologia and Philosophia

on further study and reflection: perhaps the Bible, the Upanishads, all Sutras, Koans, philosophies and theologies, were written by the Human: Don Quixote

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?