April 25th, 2008
Debra Murphy, author of The Mystery of Things, has posted a new blog on the front page of GodSpy: “After the Pope: Time to Hit the Books?”
Meanwhile, Idylls Press illustrator and book designer John Murphy spent the better part of his time in NYC during the pope’s visit helping GodSpy film and edit a nifty [...]
April 16th, 2008
Idylls Press illustrator and book designer John Murphy has copped the enviable job of flying to Washington D.C. and New York this week to blog for GodSpy on Pope Benedict’s visit to America. John’s first post, America: Encounter the Pope can be read here. His latest posts will appear on the GodSpy front page.
“If there were no such thing as the resurrection of the flesh then the truth would lie with gnosticism and every form of idealism down to Schopenhauer and Hegel, for whom the finite must literally perish if it is to become spiritual and infinite. But the resurrection of the flesh vindicates the poets in a definitive sense: the aesthetic scheme of things, which allows us to posses the infinite within the finitude of form (however it is seen, understood or grasped spiritually), is right.”
— Hans Urs von Balthasar from Seeing the Form, 155
