Nations Sometimes Flourish By Denying The Crimes

Literary Texts Do Not Exist On Bookshelves: They Are Processes Of Signification Materialized Only In The Practice Of Reading. For Literature To Happen, The Reader Is Quite As Vital As The Author.

To Declare In St John's Words That Jesus And The Father Are One Is To Claim That Jesus's Dependence On The Other Is Not Self-estrangement But Self-ful Lment. At The Core Of His Identity ..lies Nothing But Unconditional Love.

To Claim That Science And Religion Pose Different Questions To The World Is Not To Suggest That If The Bones Of Jesus Were Discovered In Palestine, The Pope Should Get Himself Down To The Dole Queue As Fast As Possible. It Is Rather To Claim That While Faith, Rather Like Love, Must Involve Factual Knowledge, It Is Not Reducible To It.

The Truth Is That Liberal Humanism Is At Once Largely Ineffectual, And The Best Ideology Of The 'human' That Present Bourgeois Society Can Muster.

History Works Itself Out By An Inevitable Internal Logic.