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A Secular Age:
Immanent spirituality
posted by Patrick Lee Miller
A worthy touchstone to arbitrate between worldviews immanent and transcendent is the désir d’éternité, the “desire to gather together the scattered moments of meaning into some kind of whole.” According to Charles Taylor, who adduces this touchstone, only transcendence has a satisfactory response [...]
Dec 18, 2008, 05:30 PM | by Marc Bernardin
Original Post
One of the things that struck me when seeing the trailer for J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek movie was that, for as much as he changed in his effort to revitalize the Trek universe, there were just enough things that he left unaltered—perhaps in an [...]
Electric Stimulus to the Face
The AccoLade on MySpace and the New York Times article - 4 Saudi girls turning sand into hard rock - wa hala hala hala!
Republished from 3 Quarks Daily
Mathis the Painter
Elatia Harris
One autumn decades ago, my then husband and I drove around France, hunting down art masterpieces. We were young and in no hurry to go home, on a mission to be swept off our feet. And France was very obliging that way. We [...]
