Reason and Revelation 

Tuesday & Thursday
9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m., Spring 2019 
Dr. Deborah Achtenberg 

…and Søren Kierkegaard

“For he who loved himself became great by himself, and he who loved other men became great by his selfless devotion, but he who loved God became greater than all.”  (Fear and Trembling)

…and Lev Shestov

“what is most enigmatic and disturbing is that mystery in general exists and that we are somehow definitely and forever cut off from the sources and beginnings of life.” (Athens and Jerusalem)

 

…and Edith Stein

“a word of Scripture may so touch me in my innermost being that in this word I feel God himself speaking to me and sense his presence.  The book and the sacred writer, or the preacher that I was just hearing, have vanished–God himself is speaking, and he is speaking to me.” (“Ways of Knowing God”) 

…and Leo Strauss

“According to the Bible, the beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord; according to the Greek philosophers, the beginning of wisdom is wonder.  We are thus compelled from the very beginning to make a choice, to take a stand.  Where then do we stand?” (“Jerusalem and Athens: Some Preliminary Reflections”)

 

 

…and Emmanuel Levinas

“‘We will do and we will hear,’ which seemed to us contrary to logic, is the order of angelic existence.” (“Temptation of Temptation”)

 

 

…and  Jacques Derrida

 

“how to think religion in the daylight of today without breaking with the philosophical tradition? (“Faith and Knowledge: The Two Sources of ‘Religion’ at the Limits of Reason Alone”)

 

 

 

 …and you.