[lit-ideas] Re: Beyond Belief
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 02:07:09 -0500
JL:
>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.
RP:
> It was Tertullian who said 'Natus est Dei Filius: non pudet quia pudendum
est;
> et mortuus est Dei Filius: prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum est; et
sepultus
> resurrexit: certum est, quia impossibile.' [de Carne Christi 5] 'Certum
est,
> quia impossibile est' is often extracted and misquoted as 'Credo quia
> impossibile.'
God, I love this list.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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