Monday, January 19, 2009

Antinomies



Free and determined.

Partial and Complete.

Good and Evil.

Finite and infinite.

Eternal and bounded.

Physical and Spiritual.

Noble and ignoble.

Creator and Parasite.

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Here's Jonbon's nice (Princetonian) response:

In theological terms:

"simul iustus et peccator"--justified and yet sinner

divine and human

bread and flesh

wine and blood

ineffable and knowable

fallen and redeemed

fully new and terminally old

inflated (by hope) and deflated (by self-knowledge)

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that's my boy.

3 comments:

Technoprairie said...

Your text sounds like the trailer for a good sci fi Charlton Heston movie.

jonbon said...

In theological terms:

"simul iustus et peccator"--justified and yet sinner

divine and human

bread and flesh

wine and blood

ineffable and knowable

fallen and redeemed

fully new and terminally old

inflated (by hope) and deflated (by self-knowledge)

jonbon said...

Yo, Mikey. Thanks for the shout out on the blog.

yeah, you know 'dat sh**.