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Tag Archives: Kierkegaard
Paradox
In the Gospel reading for Monday of the Second week of Advent Jesus heals a paralytic who has been lowered down through the ceiling of the crowded room where Our Lord has been teaching. It is a well-known story. Luke … Continue reading
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Tagged Gil Bailie, Grant Kaplan, Ivan Illich, joke, Kierkegaard, paradox, paradoxes, René Girard
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The Predicament
“There are still countries today where, even in the Catholic Church, the individual is in a situation reminiscent of that in which Kierkegaard found himself, in a national church that had fallen into liberalism: however willing the individual is to … Continue reading
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Tagged Hans Urs von Balthasar, Kierkegaard, liberalism, the Catholic Church
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Training in Christianity
Søren Kierkegaard (whom I’m re-reading of late) has left a message in a bottle (so to speak) for Nancy Pelosi and her ideological allies. Non-Catholic Christianity having now taken so many different forms, Kierkegaard’s critique retains its clearest pertinence, mutatis … Continue reading
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“What one especially praises in Christ is precisely what one would be most embittered by if one were contemporary with it.” – Søren Kierkegaard
The Difference between an Admirer and a Disciple
I find the words of Søren Kierkegaard below apropos of the overall state of Christianity today in our part of the world. Some wag has said of one of the “progressive” Protestant communions that its initials stand for “Unitarians Considering … Continue reading
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