Matt’s response to Tony’s post about the existence of God prompted a few questions and speculations on my part. So here goes:
Well, I very much like this question about God disclosure and human mediation. You seem to be suggesting that Jesus’ life and ministry were invested with a kind of significance ex post [...]

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I read with great interest this now, somewhat dated, interview with University of Chicago theologian David Tracy. I am interested in other’s responses to the interview, in particular his reflections on the meaning of fragments. My friend Matt Roberts is a Phd student in comparative literature at Emory University and he and I [...]

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Tony, I realize in reading your response that you provocatively went in a direction I was not intending. This, in itself, I think demonstrates the break between what is sent and what is received. It is the absence of a universal discourse/medium, the singularity of our identities, the uniqueness of our context, etc. [...]

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Dear Matt,
Thanks, once again, for the provocative questions you raised in your post, The Violence of Messages.
At the outset of your post, you comment on the sent and the unsent. My imagination was titillated by “unsent.” What is unsent? Your comments lead me to think that what is not sent is the (entire) meaning [...]

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*Note to readers: I respond to Tony’s post which can be found under the “About” section.*
First of all Tony, I want to thank you for your delectable post about the meaning of messages. As a therapist-to-be, I am of course intrigued and delighted by the proposition that our relationship to all Others in [...]

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