This horrendous form of Jew-hatred coalesced in the Middle Ages, the work of Catholics who claimed to be acting out of zeal for the Faith, despite popes opposing these vile accusations, writes Sandra Miesel. https://t.co/qf8oJL1HUF
— Catholic World Report (@cworldreport) April 18, 2023
Normalize telling the bees https://t.co/wy0S9ClQNv
— Rizoma Field School (@RizomaSchool) October 14, 2021
“Reilly why did you become catholic and not anglican/Lutheran/Orthodox/something else?”
— dr. reilly !!!! (@helloreilly) May 20, 2021
EASY. Clown army protecting collective grandpa pic.twitter.com/gNwhidtU71
Mono-centric conurbation (the Progressive modern city) vs. Poly-centric federation (the traditional / medieval city) by Léon Krier. One machine scaled, one human scaled. pic.twitter.com/p9SXlMLwzQ
— Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) June 14, 2018
It’s a testament to the late Rabbi Sacks’s intellectual generosity and honesty that his challenge to the standard Catholic account of faith and reason often ends up reading as a lament for its loss.
— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) December 9, 2020
May his memory be for a blessing.
My latest. https://t.co/Zu4EHtemv8
The challenge was serious, to be clear. The God of the Bible, Sacks contended, was lost in the bargain of Saint Paul’s ambition to spread his newfound faith to the Greco-Roman sphere. More to the point, God was lost in translation. The Greek language, with its left-to-right script, per Sacks, tends toward abstraction and universalization, whereas Hebrew is fundamentally a “right-brained” language, tending toward narrative and particularity. The result was that the West received an abstract, theoretical version of a supremely narrativistic deity.
The Hebrew Bible, Sacks believed, has no “theory” of being itself, of natural law or of political regimes. What it does offer are stories that deal with things like creation, morality, and politics “from multiple perspectives, at a level of subtlety and ambiguity closer to literature” than philosophy. The synthesis—the attempt to Hellenize the Bible and the teachings of Jesus—was an imposition, in Sacks’s view. And it was precisely because the God of the philosophers was so distant and inaccessible, Sacks thought, that the early Church had to posit a God-man as man’s bridge to God.
Sacks was, in truth, a pure anti-metaphysicist. In his 2011 book, The Great Partnership: Science, Religion and the Search for Meaning, he declared: “We cannot prove that life is meaningful and that God exists.” As a philosophy undergraduate at Cambridge, he recounted, he was thrilled by his atheist teachers’ demolition of the classical proofs for God, which he’d always considered a kind of cheap sleight of hand.
#Catholic #courtship of #nuns. From Perry: Gender and Disorder in Seville. pic.twitter.com/kemOlPc2FG
— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) November 23, 2020
The submerged Medieval village of Fabbriche di Careggine, Italy.
— Digital Maps of the Ancient World (@DigitalMapsAW) September 28, 2020
Every decade, for dam maintenance reasons, the basin, now called Lake Vagli, must be drained and the village eerily comes back into view. #MedievalMonday pic.twitter.com/YRDztZzZak
