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The intelligence level revealed in Trump voters and supporters must be recognized as a permanent feature of American polity.

By which themes, no, idea(l)s, does one find “the”, if any, higher sense in and to one’s life, one’s biography? Most of course “live, move, and have their being” in traditions inherited vaguely and little questioned. (The latter a kind of spiritual-existential lived sleep.)

If in deeper fact a book reveals – some more clearly, and immediately – the mind and person of its author – and I have therefore encountered thousands – the books themselves are often more overtly interesting than the authors in petson.

that no day is enough inclines that we are not home here.

Death is a kind of earthly ultimacy of heaven, for meaning and sense in human life.

It is perhaps inescapable that when inwardly one leaves such an intellectually sleepy place as is The South one must go far away inside indeed.

To read some “thinkers”, some philosophers, or those of differing defining philosophical attitudes consecutively – without sufficient pause, in facr inner distance – is not like eating a different food on a plate, but like eating im-mediatly in a different country. Time for travel is realistically most often needed.

Since this month ten years ago, when I spent a summer month in Weimar from Moscow, I have wondered about Herder’s “Christianity”. Just a while ago, reading on Herder on Luther, I recognized how official “Weimar Christianity” was more “menschlich”. Luther’s sola fides and man as inherently sinful were not accepted. (NB: Billy Grahams home is about 30 miles away.)

Surprising yet informing how much less the deeply influential Paul’s believed lRome life locations are visited compared to Peter’s.

The “Christianity/ies” of sarc.

The “Christianity/ies” of psyche.

The “Christianity/ies” of pneuma.