Joyfully, I spent a lackadaisical Friday afternoon reading the first few hundred lines of Wordsworth’s Prelude. In a way I was decompressing from Greek, in another I was indulgding myself. The true justification for such a reading perhaps is one of pursuing knowledge: I, by nature, reach out to read poetry (which my professors will [...]
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Two ways one might live without Paradise
Posted in Milton, Poetry, Wordsworth, tagged Heretical Revision, Milton, Wordsworth on March 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Wittgenstein on the limitations of philosophy
Posted in Milton, Philosophy, Poetry, Poetry and Life, Wittgenstein, tagged Milton, N.T. Wright, Philosophy, Poetry, Theology, Theology as Language, Wittgenstein on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Though I understand just a portion of the whole book, I found the following passage quite enlightening in many respects. Not least of all, I find its implications for an honest theology to be of huge importance: Imagine we had to arrange the books of a library. When we begin the books lie higgledy-piggledy on the [...]
