George Pattison Quotes - Page 2

• But my point is that 'the death of God' is not something like the Battle of Waterloo or Magna Charta. It's not a historic event of that kind. For many people it hasn't happened yet. Others - to recur to an earlier question - are still in the phase of intense shock.

  George Pattison

  People, Battle, Events

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• For others the mourning is over. Others would say that whilst one God has died - the God of ontotheology perhaps? - this allows for the good news of a God who is to come, a God who will be better able to gather up and give justice to all the manifold aspirations of human life towards goodness and meaning (and not just to those who are able to fit into a narrow 'religious' framework).

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  Religious, Giving, Justice

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude rather than a set of propositions. Call it joyous openness to life. What's not relevant about that?

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  Christian, Attitude, Teaching

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Ultimately, we live in the face of an irresolvable mystery about our origin and, for that matter, about our end. And what Schleiermacher would have us do is (a) acknowledge that this is the case and (b) accept it as something positive, a point of departure for a life of trusting joy.

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  Joy, Departure, Matter

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Schleiermacher, however, starts by attempting to find what he takes to be a basic element of the human condition as such, namely, that we did not invent ourselves but find ourselves born into a life and a world that precedes us in manifold ways.

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  Elements, World, Way

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Barth's approach tears up any possibility of dialogue between faith and unfaith or between theology and other human sciences. Theology just says what it says on the basis of scripture, and that's that.

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  Tears, Scripture, Possibility

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Interpretation is a task that we repeatedly have to take up and start again from the beginning, Sisyphus-like. But, as Camus said, we must always imagine Sisyphus happy, and this is not so difficult when it's a matter of texts that reveal important truths about being human.

  George Pattison

  Important, Tasks, Matter

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• There are kinds of unity other than those of the explicit and systematic unity that Poole is attacking. There are kinds of movement - in music or athletics, for example - that present themselves as having a certain unity about them. In some sphere we might talk about 'style'.

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  Unity, Style, Example

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought about God was clearly a matter of human thought that can, in principle, be retrieved and interpreted by other human beings. A phenomenological approach to religion must, it seems to me, adopt the old adage: nothing human is alien to me.

  George Pattison

  Principles, Example, Doe

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.

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  Might, Authorship, Scholar

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• Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe and meet them on their own ground. His success in doing this is evidenced by the fact that, at least for some periods of the 20th century, aspects of his work became a major focus for radical thinkers of various kinds, including the non-religious and, interestingly, a significant number of Jewish thinkers (Buber, Rosenzweig, Taubes, and others).

  George Pattison

  Religious, Believe, Communication

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.

  George Pattison

  Letting Go, Goal, Waiting

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits one from a particular author, whether it's Kierkegaard, Heidegger, or whoever. Nevertheless, it does seem to me that even the more religious parts of the authorship can offer significant insights into the meaning of the human condition to those who can't then say that, e.g., they believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and their personal Saviour.

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  Religioso, Jesús, Creer

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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