I couldn’t agree more with Adam Kotsko’s thought re: the film Avatar in which he observes that critiques like that of Ross Douthat, which simply locate the film as one more instance of Hollywood pantheism, have little value either as commentaries on the text of the film or as cultural critique. Rather, the primary religious [...]
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Today I was reading Thomas of Celano’s First and Second Lives of Saint Francis, when I came across a strangely moving section.
Trucking along in his typically hagiographic style, Thomas asserts that “the humility of the incarnation and the love of the passion so occupied” Francis’s memory that “he scarcely wished to think of anything else. [...]
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