Saturday, April 17, 2004
(10:46 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
The Page 23 Thing
Via à Gauche, Unfogged, The Virtual Stoa, Cap'n Pete, et al., the newest, hottest meme, aside from "Kerry is inevitable":
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 23.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Volume II/1 and II/2 deal with the so-called doctrine of God in the narrower sense, i.e., in II/1 the quesetion of the possibility of the knowledge of God and the doctrine of the attributes of God (love, freedom, omnipotence, wisdom, presence etc.), and in II/2 the doctrine of the election of grace (predestination) and basic definitions in relation to the commanding of God and therefore the foundation of Christian ethics.You're lucky I happened to put Barth a little closer to the computer than Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida last night before I went to bed.
-- Helmut Gollwitzer's introduction to his selections from Barth's Church Dogmatics
The Virtual Stoa also points out an interesting meta-meme based on this premise.
[Technical question: is there a way to keep Blogger from putting such a huge gap after blockquotes and lists?]
[UPDATE: Problem solved. That does make for some ugly source code, though.]
