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Theological Aside on Norman Maclean
We see the genius of Maclean when he recapitulates the “God is Love” of the Sunday school wall in the “LOVE” tattooed on the whore’s ass and the disciples’ surprise at the empty tomb in Paul and Norman’s surprise that the beer they buried is gone (“we enacted the rite of staring at the emptiness of stones that have been rolled aside”). Neither take, the banal or the elevated, is rejected. You don’t get anywhere if you don’t deal with both.
Eucharistic (g)host
Hospitality of the victim
The lecturer
Why study theology?
“Because it is fun! It is the most exciting field for research because it encompasses everything. Among the secular disciplines, philosophy is the most powerful, the most exciting, the most difficult. But in theology, you are talking about everything: art, for instance, and literature – everything. In theology, you can even look down, so to speak, on philosophy, which can get a bit narrow-minded from time to time.” – Jean-Luc Marion in the December 2022 issue of Commonweal
Jungian to the Manichee over nuts and cocktails
Two wrongs don’t make a right,
but two negatives
do make a positive.
Go figure.
Walk in the light,
but God also made the night,
so yeah, Hello?!
We’ve got to get back to the Garden,
but can’t because history is linear.
Great!
I’m gonna put it all in a bag and shake it,
and see what comes out.
Prob’ly a calico cat.
For de Lubac this means
“For de Lubac this means that God has built into such a nature, not a supernatural power, but a certain receptive potentiality, which is to say, a capacity to recognize that what will truly make us happy is something we cannot attain or know or even fully anticipate on our own.”
Robert Royal, A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century
Man writes book
Holland is the New England of Europe
Home to the now dead
fisher of cod,
the ominous whale,
Calvin
trees, universities
hemp
and a spiry regret
Utrecht Journal 