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A Treatise on Unrequited Love | Catholic Kung Fu
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Catholicism. Art. The occasional martial arts reference. A Treatise on Unrequited Love. Asymp; Leave a comment. Dante meets Beatrice at Ponte Santa Trinita, by Henry Holiday (1839 - 1927). Unrequited love is not love. Not in the strictest sense. For love to be love, it must be returned – this is the glory and goal of love. Rainer Maria Rilke knows this glory well, though he smiles at it perhaps darkly, saying thus to lovers:. Ihr berührt euch so selig, weil die Liebkosung verhält,. 8211; Duino Elegies.
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maximustheconfessor | Catholic Kung Fu
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Catholicism. Art. The occasional martial arts reference. Asymp; Leave a comment. I will now be writing over at The Rule and the Raven. This site will remain intact for as long as it is able. Please enjoy it as an archive of sorts, and by all means check out the new site and the new thoughts. Asymp; Leave a comment. I cannot write a poem too complex,. Or else it will, like you, hide its gentleness. Then no one would know about the time. I sank quietly to the floor and cried,. With equal silence moved.
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Update – Professor of What? | Catholic Kung Fu
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Catholicism. Art. The occasional martial arts reference. Update – Professor of What? In Something Like Real Life. Asymp; 1 Comment. Camille Corot, “Dinan, a gate of a town”. Sometimes people read this website. Of this mystery, I cannot speak. Still, I can at least update the site so that people are less confused about who I am when they stumble here. I could also update the aesthetic of the site to be less…. I think they are awesome. My course teaching focuses on grasping the essentials of Catholic theol...
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A Walk Through Qianlong Garden | Catholic Kung Fu
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Catholicism. Art. The occasional martial arts reference. A Walk Through Qianlong Garden. In Hans Urs von Balthasar. Asymp; Leave a comment. I recently attended the Milwaukee Art Museum’s exhibition, “ Summer of China. 8221; The museum’s most important loan acquisitions include pieces from Qianlong Garden. A former imperial palace during the Qing Dynasty. It is a beautiful exhibit. All the designs evoked movement, despite being motionless. It reminded me of a line from T.S. Eliot’s. Words move, music moves.
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The Portal of the Mystery of Hope | Catholic Kung Fu
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Catholicism. Art. The occasional martial arts reference. The Portal of the Mystery of Hope. Asymp; Leave a comment. Le Porche du mystère de la deuxième vertu,. Éditions Gallimard, 1929. According to Péguy, hope is characterized by its ever-new quality, its ability to approach the same task as if it were to be accomplished for the first time. This makes hope, the frailest of the virtues, the virtue that. The faith I love best, says God, is hope. Faith does not surprise me. It is not surprising. La foi que...
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The Redemption of Beauty | Catholic Kung Fu
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Catholicism. Art. The occasional martial arts reference. The Redemption of Beauty. Hans Urs von Balthasar. Asymp; 2 Comments. John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shallot. Fairy tales comprehend the fantastic amidst the harrows of death. The gruesome and the wonderful find in fairy tales places of equal measure, perhaps because fairy tales understand better than most art forms the terrible joy of beauty. In fairy tales, even beauty dies. But this is not the end. Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959).
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Site move. | Catholic Kung Fu
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Catholicism. Art. The occasional martial arts reference. Asymp; Leave a comment. I will now be writing over at The Rule and the Raven. This site will remain intact for as long as it is able. Please enjoy it as an archive of sorts, and by all means check out the new site and the new thoughts. Larr; Previous post. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out.
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Curriculum Vitae | Catholic Kung Fu
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Catholicism. Art. The occasional martial arts reference. Assistant Professor, Catholic Systematic Theology. St Mary’s College of California. Marquette University, Department of Theology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. PhD, Religious Studies. Dissertation Title: Theo-Poetics: Figure and Metaphysics in the Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar (successfully defended March 23, 2012). Directors: Dr. D. Stephen Long; Dr. Danielle Nussberger. Board: Father Robert Doran, S.J. Dr. Ralph Del Colle. MA, Theology, 2008. By Nich...
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Despair and The Assumption | Catholic Kung Fu
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Catholicism. Art. The occasional martial arts reference. Despair and The Assumption. In The Virgin Mary. Asymp; 2 Comments. The following is an essay written two years ago but never published or otherwise presented.]. Crucified Lord, you swim upon your cross. And never move. Sometimes in dreams of hell. The body moves but moves to no avail. And is at one with that eternal loss. You are the castaway of drowned remorse,. You are the world’s atonement on the hill. This is your body twisted by our skill.
