Alain Badiou has been described, maybe a bit extravagantly, as “perhaps the most influential of all contemporary French Philosophers.” Well, listen to this eloquent description of Badiou’s understanding “EVENT” by Terry Eagleton: …the Event is that miraculous occurrence which surges up from an historical situation to which it simultaneously does not belong. Events for Badiou [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Faith’
Passion Allergy?
I came across a statement in Terry Eagleton’s Reason, Faith, and Revolution (highly recommended!) that rang true to my experience here at Union Theological Seminary: “Some postmodernists suspect that all certainty is authoritarian. They are nervous of people who sound passionately committed to what they say.” (p. 136) What Eagleton is saying applies, I think, [...]
“I believe in order to understand”
The following three statements, from three different people, make sense of one another: Pascal: We must love things before we can know them. Kierkegaard: A believer is someone in love. St.Anselm: I believe in order to understand. To really understand something we have to be in a relationship with it, involved with it, to some [...]
