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Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground Episode 17: The Advent of History & The History of Advent
Great expectations… In this 1997 presentation Gil Bailie provides a guided tour of the history of history. History actually has a history. It was not always the case that humans lived in history. That is what lies behind the idea … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Gil Bailie, history, progress, resentment, transcendence
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Adam & Eve and…..Pecos Bill?
One of the frequent joys of bringing Gil Bailie’s recorded presentations from analog cassette tape into the digital world involves finding a reference to long forgotten experiences such as the following: Below is a link to the YouTube video of … Continue reading
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Tagged America, history, Pecos Bill, Robin Williams
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Reflections on a Girard Christmas Card
In past years in celebration of Christmas we have posted a short excerpt from the Hoover Institutions Uncommon Knowledge series of an interview by Peter Robinson with René Girard recorded in 2009. Viewing it again, I find the combination of … Continue reading
The Intoxication of Violence
“Since satisfactory answers [to the question of the meaning of human existence] have not been found apart from Christ, there is an attempt today to cancel the questions or at least to rob them of their dramatic quality. We are … Continue reading
On the Fourth of July in 2020
My thoughts in these troubled times are sober and sobering ones. Ours is a period in history fraught with peril and uncertainty. But it has been in such times as these that our faith has rekindled itself. The world is … Continue reading
A Viral Hegemonic Discourse
Over the past weeks it has been amazing to see how quickly our focus has shifted from what seemed at the time matters of urgent concern to another crisis of world altering dimensions. As we all hunker down and pray … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, Christianity, coronavirus, history, pandemic, sacramental, viral, virus, Western Civilization
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Patriotism or Hatriotism
In commemoration of America’s celebration of Independence Day Gil Bailie posted a link on the Cornerstone Forum’s Facebook page to a book review written by Tim Rice of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, by Wilfred … Continue reading
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Tagged America, freedom, Herman Melville, history, Israel, Walter McDougall, Wilfred M. McClay
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Winners & Losers…
“There is a secret gnawing certainty that tells us that in success there is always a residue of impurity, in victory always a residue of coarseness … that there is and can be complete purity only in misfortune, and that … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Péguy, Hans Urs von Balthasar, history, winners and losers
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Pointing Beyond…
Christ’s Cross is indeed not one historical fact among others to which a natural process can more or less arbitrarily be related: it is the fundamental, ontological presupposition of all natural processes that all, knowingly or not, intrinsically signify or … Continue reading
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Tagged Cross, Hans Urs von Balthasar, history, onotology, signification
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Liberation of man…social emancipation
For those who speak of being on the right or wrong side of history — that old Hegelian-Marxist axiom — the renown French theologian has a reminder: “‘Liberation of man,’ understood as a social emancipation, is a human undertaking which, … Continue reading
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Tagged emancipation, Hegel, Henri de Lubac, history, liberation, society
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