why is the name of jesus an embarrassment to us today ... is it because he's the linchpin in our defense against a meaningless but powerful deity on the one hand and a doctrine just as meaningless and as powerful in its potency on the other ... ah isn't it better to be a greek better even than latin ... plato say or with a liitle reading aristotle even better once again ... ones are ones and threes are threes and never the twain shall meet without a two between them ... all right a first material cause call him paternalistically father ... a second necessary cause the cause of necessity call it form ... and a third filling the form with passion and with light call it purpose ... how can you see without the light how can you care without the passion how can you know the form or understand the matter without the purpose and what purpose is there ever finally without the person ... thus aristotle ... four causes ... and jesus in the center both the person and the form and we beside him the persons by the person learning the form compelled by the matter propelled by the purpose freed by the form and the person
cf kreeft, jesus-shock
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