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...National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens and in her cheeriest tone, normally reserved for Proactiv skin care commercials, and ask me all about “transcultural communication networks between antiquity and contemporary international art.”I was supposed to find a charming yet rugged Greek art student. We would fall madly in love over freddo cappuccino and cigarettes in the Agora. His father would preferably own a yacht, which he would sail to Cambridge. My friends would be impressed.I did not meet a single celebrity in my seven-week stay in Athens, unless you count overhearing...
...totally surprised me! I'm a superstitious Greek peasant so I never count my goats before they hatch. As for our future plans, we're looking to build on what we're doing by adding more video, more investigative pieces, more satiric content. And we've just added a new section that covers everything but politics. Using as its springboard the themes in my new book, On Becoming Fearless, the section contains blog posts, news stories, and special features on relationships, work, parenting, health, sex, food, entertainment... in other words, life...
...last week's speech, Benedict shifted the terms of a debate that has been dominated by either feel-good truisms, victimization complexes or hateful confrontation. He sought instead to delineate what he sees as a fundamental difference between Christianity's view that God is intrinsically linked to reason (the Greek concept of Logos) and Islam's view that "God is absolutely transcendent...
...This agreement, reaching across centuries of time and several religious schisms, has been especially evident in the last month, when American Evangelical Christians and the current Roman Catholic Pope (aided by a 14th Century Byzantine emperor and head of the Greek Orthodox Church) spoke up on a single topic: the forced conversions of Christians by Muslims...
...kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death..." The decisive statement in this argument against violent conversion is this: not to act in accordance with reason is contrary to God's nature. The editor, Theodore Khoury, observes: For the emperor, as a Byzantine shaped by Greek philosophy, this statement is self-evident. But for Muslim teaching, God is absolutely transcendent. His will is not bound up with any of our categories, even that of rationality. Here Khoury quotes a work of the noted French Islamist R. Arnaldez, who points out that Ibn Hazn went...