Monday, January 9, 2023
Monday, June 7, 2021
Pullman’s Holy Office
Good question. From Philip Pullman's recent HBO version of
"His Dark Materials," The University of Oxford’s St. Peter’s College:
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Thursday, May 13, 2021
Annals of Experimental Theology
The Axiomatic Method:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident…."
Other methods:
"In Gauss we trust." (See below.)
But perhaps not so much in Princeton . . .
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Sunday, August 7, 2016
The Lauper Sermon
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Sunday, May 25, 2008
Sunday May 25, 2008
"Caught up
in circles…"
in circles…"
— Song lyric,
Cyndi Lauper
Alethiometer from
"The Golden Compass"
Update:
See also this morning's
later entry, illustrating
the next line of Cyndi
Lauper's classic lyric
"Time After Time" —
"… Confusion is
nothing new."
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Tuesday December 11, 2007
The Solzhenitsyn Compass
“The Golden Compass is a $180 million movie that opens this weekend….
In the book, the golden compass is actually called ‘the alethiometer.’ As any student of Greek would expect, this instrument has to do with alethia— the truth. In the fourth chapter of the book, the Master of Jordan College tells Lyra, the protagonist of the story, that the alethiometer ‘tells you the truth. As for how to read it, you’ll have to learn by yourself.'”
— Sermon by Paul Lundberg, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Seminary, Tuesday, December 4, 2007.
“Harvard’s motto is Veritas. Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us as soon as our concentration begins to flag, all the while leaving the illusion that we are continuing to pursue it. This is the source of much discord. Also, truth seldom is sweet; it is almost invariably bitter.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, commencement address, Harvard University, June 8, 1978
Solzhenitsyn is 89 today.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
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