Sublime

Augustine is striking at the very heart of what the Manicheans offered: not just enlightenment, but belonging, a circle of those “in the know,” a friendship of light.

Here’s how to live: Love.

Augustine taught that we are most fundamentally shaped not as much by what we believe, or think, or even do, but by what we love.

Barth’s strategy was to find within biblical language itself a way to speak of God’s breaking into a modern world framed by immanence.

As Charles Taylor puts it, in modernity we remade the human person into a “buffered self,” protected and autonomous and independent, free to determine our own good and pursue our own “authentic” path.

Existence itself, Yannaras wants to argue, moves at the speed not of acceleration but of Eros. This is its motion. Eros is always on the move, but never for the sake of more speed or to grow more impersonal resources. The motion of Eros is always for the sole good of personhood, of arriving in the life of another in order to love, befriend, and car

to express who we are. Who we are and where we are on our journey.