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"Dionysus is the same thing as Hades."






Today is the feast of St. Anselm, one of the great geniuses of the theological tradition. In his “Cur Deus Homo,” he offered an explanation of the cross that beguiles theological minds to this day. But he is most famous, of course, for what came to be called the “ontological argument” for God's existence. Brilliant people have criticized it (Aquinas and Kant most famously), but equally brilliant people have defended it (Bonaventure, Descartes, Charles Hartshorne, and Alvin Plantinga to name a few). Einstein's colleague Kurt Gödel famously advocated it, arguing that a supremely perfect being must have all possible perfections, including that of necessary existence. Therefore, we can conclude from the very notion of God that God necessarily exists. Perhaps we could honor St. Anselm today by taking the time to think deeply about “that than which nothing greater can be thought.”












The post-nominalist crisis of the intellectualist metaphysics of nature, placed in historical perspective and considered through the theoretical apparatus of René Thom, is the discovery of its own catastrophic minimum in the semiophysical constitution of its horizon as morphogenetical, or, in other words, in terms of the situational production of intellectual form through the personal opening to divine grace as a valence of being’s givenness (Marion). The gap between the metaphysical heritage of Aristotle and the semiophysical opening of Thom can be interpreted metacritically in terms of a providentially and apocalyptically situated transformation which itself belongs to neither paradigm (which relate within themselves as a perfect ahistorical amphiboly of “before” and “after”), but rather lies “beside” them; for these reasons, O. Bradley Bassler’s language of the “paraphysical” is apt for the catastrophic operation of form in the ordeal of truth which is salvation history itself. This history is the real of becoming as a narrative temporality between two Incarnations, stretching metaxologically between Christ’s birth to Mary and the apocalyptically promised parousia, marked by myriad morphogenetical distortions and revelations within a rhythmic arc expressed intellectually as the trial of the “metaphysical” interpretation of nature in the face of the supernatural paradigm of Incarnation as setting nature Sophianically in constitutive receptivity to divine will.





