This very world, this very contradiction—unabridged, unmitigated, unsmoothed, unsimplified, unreduced—this world shall not be overcome, but consummated. It shall be consummated in the Kingdom, for it is that world, and no other, with all its contrariety, in which the Kingdom is a latency such that every reduction would only hinder its consummation, whereas every unification [...]
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this very world: the quotable Martin Buber
Posted in terra buberiana on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
discovering Martin Buber
Posted in denkschrift, reseña, terra buberiana on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a Christian student of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, I have for many years known Martin Buber only by the (often foot-noted) allusions to his work that frequent the pages of admiring biblical scholars. It has seemed an acquaintance that would almost inevitably but only at some future appointment become part of my life. This [...]
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