Something to chew on...
People cannot bear to have a unity that is above them and of which, with their particular tasks and graces, they are only a part. They shift unity from the whole into the part. They do not want symphony, but rather unison. In Platonic terms, this is the tyrannis; in modern terms it is totalitarianism, the inner contradiction of the one-party system and the arrogant claim to infallibility.I am reading Hans Urs von Balthazar's Truth is Symphonic right now. This guy rocked.
See, for instance, the Anglican Communion or the (former) Diocese of San Joaquin.
Posted by: Reverend Ref at December 12, 2007 08:28 AM