“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures in whom has been implanted and to whom has been entrusted a world-consuming desire, and if… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“In sharp contrast to their pagan contemporaries, Israel’s remembrance of the past was marked by two tendencies: a faith in Yahweh’s fidelity to the… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“The very word, religio—to bind (ligio) back (re)—suggests exactly this. Thus these ancient cultures remained profoundly backward oriented. This ritualized return to a primordial… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“It is when we ask about the nature of this catharsis that we discover that culture itself represents something like the fruit of the… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“As we shall see below, without that tinge of moral remorse, however, there would have been no catharsis, and therefore no surviving culture.” — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
