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Pastoral
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… the countryside and the village are symbols of stability and security, of order. Yet they are also, as I have noted, liminal spaces, at a very narrow remove from the atavistic Wild. Arcadia is not the realm even of Giorgione and of Claude, with its cracked pillars and thunderbolts, its lurking banditti; still less is it Poussin’s sun-dappled and regularised realm of order, where, although the lamb may be destined for the altar and the spit, all things proceed with charm and gravity and studied
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Wer verlangt, sie [diese Sprache] müsse so sein, dass der moderne Mensch sich ohne Einübung sofort in ihr wiederfinden könne, verlangt Unmögliches. Dieses Postulat ähnelt dem, die Kirche müsse auf die Fragen des heutigen menschen antworten, ohne zu sagen, dass sie vielleicht lehren muss, die richtigen Fragen zu stellen. Als Leute von Jesus wissen wollten, welches der gerechte Verteilungsschlüssel bei ihrer Erbauseinandersetzung sei, da erklärte er sich für unzuständig. Seine Lehre war: "Suchet z
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