Thanks so much for this guide to Caputo's journey and its possible crossing of paths with Pope Leo. I knew the name of Angelus Silesius but I didn't know he was the source of "the rose is without a why." The account you give of Caputo's concern for phenomenology and ethics is really helpful. I look forward to reading Papal Encyclicals from Pope Leo.
For you the film buff, on Angelus Silesius: "In the 1991 American film Cape Fear directed by Martin Scorsese, the film's sadistic antagonist, Max Cady (played by Robert De Niro) quotes a verse of Silesius.[17] The verse is:
10. Ich bin wie Gott, und Gott wie ich.
Ich bin so groß als Gott, er ist als ich so klein:
Er kann nicht über mich, ich unter ihm nicht sein.[18][19]
I am like God and God like me.
I am as large as God, He is as small as I.
He cannot above me, nor I beneath him be."
—English translation used in film (copied and pasted from Wikipedia)
Chris, I knew Silesius/Scheffler because of quotations of him by Lutherans -- but I didn't know he had converted to become a Catholic and a Franciscan. Neat.
Scorsese's remake of CAPE FEAR is brilliant, IMO! As a sidebar: Kierkegaard owned a copy of Silesius' CHERUBIC PILGRIM (Cherubinischer Wandersmann). Pietism was the point of contact...
Thanks so much for this guide to Caputo's journey and its possible crossing of paths with Pope Leo. I knew the name of Angelus Silesius but I didn't know he was the source of "the rose is without a why." The account you give of Caputo's concern for phenomenology and ethics is really helpful. I look forward to reading Papal Encyclicals from Pope Leo.
For you the film buff, on Angelus Silesius: "In the 1991 American film Cape Fear directed by Martin Scorsese, the film's sadistic antagonist, Max Cady (played by Robert De Niro) quotes a verse of Silesius.[17] The verse is:
10. Ich bin wie Gott, und Gott wie ich.
Ich bin so groß als Gott, er ist als ich so klein:
Er kann nicht über mich, ich unter ihm nicht sein.[18][19]
I am like God and God like me.
I am as large as God, He is as small as I.
He cannot above me, nor I beneath him be."
—English translation used in film (copied and pasted from Wikipedia)
Chris, I knew Silesius/Scheffler because of quotations of him by Lutherans -- but I didn't know he had converted to become a Catholic and a Franciscan. Neat.
Scorsese's remake of CAPE FEAR is brilliant, IMO! As a sidebar: Kierkegaard owned a copy of Silesius' CHERUBIC PILGRIM (Cherubinischer Wandersmann). Pietism was the point of contact...