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Staples has been really fascinating for me to read after all the PwJ folks.

Hegel as Alexandrian Christian Or, Against False Piety

Shot across the bow:
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But the full account of that Christo-logic is just what I attempted in my book, including the “dilemma of creation” implied by (1) Maximus’s point here about God never needing evil and yet (2) his other point that one would need to know God fully first to know creation rightly.

But Maximus goes on in that same text to argue for an identity indeed, the Logos is the logoi and the reverse. Here again one must trace the Christo-logic thoroughly to see that this other type of identity isn’t somehow not an identity. So the person here limits himself to options Maximus transcends

Moreover, Maximus’s critique of “Origenism” in Amb 7 isn’t simply a negation of the absolute’s self-othering. It’s first of all a rejection of a *serial* and thus merely finite self and relation that, qua finite, is either perpetually insecure or a mere external contrast.

absoluteness—or as he says of the PhG in the preface to the science of logic, it establishes “the idea of the absolute.” Reading this the way one reads a treatise on being is a prolonged category error.

He doesn’t get Hegel right, since Hegel always thinks the Absolute’s “self-Othering” except as Trinity, and thence any relative difference through Christ. Also, the PhG is not a straightforward ontology; it is a phenomenology, ie an account of how finite reason experiences its own mediated..

I’m with you

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Well, I wouldn’t say that. For an intro to Hegel himself, I’d start with Houlgate and/or Peter Hodgson (Hegel & Christian Theology).

For Rose, I recommend the following and in this order: Mourning Becomes the Law, Dialectic of Nihilism, The Broken Middle, Hegel Contra Sociology, Love’s Work—that’s a good start!

Just did, ya dopes

Raising hell: Catholics debate church teaching on eternal punishment The debate over hell and universal salvation has heated up. Pope Francis and some Catholic scholars and theologians have addressed God's infinite mercy and t...

I’m in the (Catholic) news:

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Rahner is famous for the identity of economic and immanent Trinity. Here he explains that this identity is what Hegel would call a speculative proposition: an identity which includes difference as its self-difference. A living sameness which produces and sublates otherness.

Plea for Palestine - Still Over a year ago I published my only “political” post to date. It was really a memoir of my own experience in Israel/Palestine nearly twenty years ago. I make no apologies for wading into politics. The...

I honestly didn’t intend to write this, but I ended up spending all day doing so. Just couldn’t shake it.
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A Round-Up of Recent Offerings Several installments lie on the horizon for us here.

Some of what I’ve up to lately:

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I’m here for it and putting this in my basket

Damn looks great

Ut Unum Sint

“And I won’t admit I ever didn’t.”

Crisis of a House Divided Jordan Wood and the End of the Ressourcement Thomist Settlement

Extremely lucid. Hell, I learned some things about my own work!
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I’d add IV.

His anti-Hegel invective is so passé.

Yep.

Co-sign, and not just about the thread but also about the book. Get it asap.

It’s a Good Friday to re-post this thread correcting a common—and gravely mistaken—view of Jesus’s crucifixion!

Fitting

Got the book but not pdf

Watch out for that moment when he cites his own unpublished paper in support of his own point.