Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky once wrote, “Beauty at low temperatures is beauty.” His point was simple enough. If one can find beauty in the harsh barrenness of low temperatures, then something must be truly beautiful, for only beauty can counterbalance the immense discomfort of frigidness and thus be called truly beautiful.
Apologetics
Romano Guardini’s Diagnosis of the Modern World
Man believed he had dominion over nature, and so proceeded to act as a ruler thereof, but it is a poor ruler indeed who destroys that over which he is supposed to govern.
A Rejoinder to A Recent Essay
“Man’s relations with nature have been altered radically, have become indirect. The old immediateness has been lost, for now his relations are transmitted by mathematics or by instruments. Abstract and formalized, nature has lost all concreteness; having become inorganic and technical, it has lost the quality of real experience.
Harmony in Creation
There is a natural human longing to understand where we came from. Finite as we are, we fear where we are going and demand understanding of where we came. For this reason, theologies, doctrines, and dogmas become not frameworks around which we develop, and to the best of our abilities, answer the questions of our existence, but rigid courses of supposed understanding.
Whence Does the Burden of Proof Lie?
In speaking with an atheist acquaintance, it was suggested that the burden of proving the existence of God, or rather, of any god at all, rested with the believer. Believers are the ones making the claim, so it must be believers who provide the evidence therefore. Must it, though? Perhaps it would behoove us to … Continue reading Whence Does the Burden of Proof Lie?
Faith and Imagination
“I suspect that men have sometimes derived more spiritual sustenance from myths they did not believe than from the religion they professed. To be truly Christian we must both assent to the historical fact and also receive the myth (fact though it has become) with the same imaginative embrace which we accord to all myths.
