Sun, 17 June 2007
Finally we get to a post-death "destination" -- although it's not a final destination. Purgatory is the antechamber to heaven, and the concept of this state of purification is difficult to understand. More to the point are the words of Jesus to Simon the Pharisee and of Nathan the prophet to King David. God is merciful.
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Sun, 17 June 2007
Last night at 9:40 pm I finished reading The Word of God and the Word of Man by Karl Barth, thereby finishing my reading of the entire 1990 edition of Great Books of the Western World. My goal had been to finish by my fiftieth birthday. I made it with 22 days to spare. I had bought the set in 1993; I did not begin reading in earnest until early 1996 -- over eleven years ago. Now that I have read the "Great Books," I have the rest of my life to engage in scholarship: dipping back into these books for the sake of my ongoing enrichment. It's going to be good.
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-- posted at: 11:53am CST
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