[lit-ideas] Re: Beyond Belief
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:20:50 EDT
In a message dated 8/23/2004 12:06:29 AM Eastern Standard Time,
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
As a matter of fact, I've just started reading _Beyond Belief_ by Elaine
Pagels. Interesting book. I just finished her _Gnostic Gospels_. She's a
very readable historian of religion. Having accepted the fact that
Christianity is probably not going to go away anytime soon, I've decided to
try to reach some accomodation with it, you know, find out where it came
from, what it wants, and how it evolved into the thing it is today. I find
Pagels very enlightening. Has anyone else read her?
----
A connection can be made here with the topic of inconceivability.
It was that Father of the Church who said (in Latin)
It is absurd; therefore, I believe it.
(He was referring to either Jesus's resurrection or to the Immaculate
Conception (or both).
On another accounts of his dictum, it comes out as:
I believe in it, and I believe in it (if you ask me)
_because_ [Latin *quia*] it's absurd.
But I prefer the former wording since the grammar (and logic) of 'quia' is
tricky (hardly conditional).
Cheers,
JL
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