Tag Archives: Alfred North Whitehead

one day there time will surely come

Nothing like a little heresy to reinflate the sagging body of the church. The heresy of twenty plus centuries, as infinite as private choice , is hardly random, but keeps to certain well-defined channels. Past the multitudinous polysyllabic channels to … Continue reading

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old wild men: sandwiches of them

See it as a matrix of sensations.Mutable. Unfixed.Unhinged. Something of the child rubbing against the unknown world of the adult. Sometimes we have to go back to reach beyond the future, to be as children, and approach the objects of … Continue reading

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MAN, THE MARKET and THE MESSIAH

Pious consumption. As Easter is upon us, so is a recurring drama of what the holiday means. Believer based critiques as opposed to the deeply secular and atheistic. It is often a case of the message overwhelming the medium and … Continue reading

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SAILING TO BYZANTIUM

”They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony:they read, they praised, they compiled. but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In … Continue reading

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WHERE THE WEST WAS WON

The achievement of the Byzantines was to keep barbarians at bay, create a new art, preserve Western culture for a thousand years, and push a little further the limits of piety and depravity. It is only recently that the word … Continue reading

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