#milbank

[grandpasessions]

This absence of any positive characteristics, this full identity of God and man at the level of properties, can occur only because another, more radical difference makes any positive differential features irrelevant. This change can be succinctly described as the shift from the upward movement of the becoming-essential of the accident to the downward movement of the becoming-accidental of the essence: the Greek hero, this “exemplary individual,” elevates his accidental personal features into a paradigmatic case of the essential universality, while in the Christian logic of Incarnation, the universal Essence embodies itself in an accidental individual.

The Monstrosity of Christ S. Zizek and Jon Milbank

[goodthingswithjah]

[eikona-co]

Pavel Florensky’s return to the Jacobian perspective was drastic: he argued that because reason lacks a ‘reasonable’ intuition, and we cannot ground general truths upon isolated empirical intuitions, that therefore ‘we revolve in the domain of postulates and presuppositions of certain knowledge’.  On the basis of this prodigiously ‘postmodern’ conclusion, he concludes that according to pure reason itself it is perfectly possible that there is no truth and that the ‘true’ horizon is rather a nihilistic one. Thus, in the long term wake of Jacobi and Hamann and beyond idealism, he concludes that reason of itself, in order to save itself, must ‘postulate’ by faith an infinite ground for the conclusions of reason which will confirm fleeting finite truths, snatched from the flux of time and the elasticity of space, only as participations in an infinite truth where the exclusivity of opposites on which finite logic must rely has necessarily (since in the infinite there are no boundaries to establish exclusive ‘identities’) ceased to apply. The Trinity, he suggests, is the revelation to faith and to a heightened reason of the logic of a coincidence of identity with non-identity in the grounding infinite.

John Milbank

[eikona-co]

Given a dead world — nature, space, and time lacking in symbolic resonance — religious belief will seem always implausible. In terms of practice, this means that we need to combine an Evangelical genius for necessary fringe events — discussion and prayer meetings, festivals — with a true Catholic sense of liturgy, combining the formal and the spontaneous in a myriad of possible different forms and styles. Street processions, pilgrimages, sacramental blessing of sites and processes, and liturgical drama, are already newly popular.

[https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2016/19-february/features/interviews/interview-john-milbank-theologian]

[topfunpictures]

Dana Milbank: Why can’t we use nuclear weapons against hurricanes?

Dana Milbank: Why can’t we use nuclear weapons against hurricanes?

Washington • Have you heard the one about the lawbreaker who got pardoned by President Trump?

It’s so funny it’s criminal.

As The Washington Post’s Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey report, Trump has told his subordinates to seize private land and disregard environmental rules as they build a border wall, offering to pardon them for breaking the law. The White House response? Trump is joking.

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Dana Milbank: Why can’t we use nuclear weapons against hurricanes?

Dana Milbank: Why can’t we use nuclear weapons against hurricanes?

Washington • Have you heard the one about the lawbreaker who got pardoned by President Trump?

It’s so funny it’s criminal.

As The Washington Post’s Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey report, Trump has told his subordinates to seize private land and disregard environmental rules as they build a border wall, offering to pardon them for breaking the law. The White House response? Trump is joking.

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[bizarrecrimes]

Today I’m a super serious political reporter- a few unhappy people in Wesrminister #milbank #boris #politics #brexit #london #westminster #reporter #politicalunrest #itv #parliament #parliamentsquare (at Palace of Westminster) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0OcTOWlwPq/?igshid=1vef6ahb2ifj1

[bizarrecrimes]

Today I’m a super serious political reporter- a few unhappy people in Wesrminister #milbank #boris #politics #brexit #london #westminster #reporter #politicalunrest #itv (at Parliament of Westminter) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0OWq_NFZ4C/?igshid=1t6py4x9nef1m