@RobertEllsberg @OrbisBooks Umpteen, of course, are the masters of epigraph, but 'The Cosmotheandric Experience' propelled the footnote into what feels almost like an entirely new theological category. A simply glorious literary adventure. A gold standard of interspiritual metaphysics on the page, that man.
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It happened after some days, perhaps as the fruit of an intense and sustained meditation, that a vision appeared to this ardently devoted Man. In this vision it was manifested that by means of a few sages versed in the variety of religions that exist throughout the world it could be possible to reach a certain peaceful concord. And it is through this concord that a lasting peace in religion may be attained and established by convenient and truthful means. —Nicolai de Cusa De Pace seu Concordantia Fidei 1,1 * Frontspiece to Raimon Panikkar's 'The Intrareligious Dialogue'
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Introduction writer of Panikkar’s The Cosmotheandric Experience Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Finally, there is the matter of all those footnotes! In some cases, these rather thoroughgoing explicitations of context nearly squeeze the text right off the page. The modern reader may find all this scholarly scrupulosity a little taxing, but look a bit closer and you'll see that the text itself is, so to speak, cleared by this maneuver, smoothed out and streamlined — one might even say modernized —by consigning most of the references to the subtext. Yet they remain very much in evidence, for those who would dig deeper. If there is one annoying colloquialism that recurs in many of Panikkar’s writings, it is his seemingly quaint—and perhaps characteristically Catalan — insistence on never "throwing out the baby with the bathwater.” Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Bottom photographed page, lines above and below Aquinas footnote", "reason": "Full-resolution original clips the left/right edges and top/bottom of this separate page fragment. Visible tail ‘Lubac, Exégèse médiévale, Paris (Aubier) 1959.’ and lower ‘The essential core [of the gnostic system] is the enterprise of…’ do not permit recovery of their complete sentences. The introduction author is not identified in the image or exact saved excerpt."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1751982022833443299 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Hah! A Classics education proves its point. Happy to note a typo in the notes to Raimon Panikkar's 'The Cosmotheandric Experience' referring to Aquinas' 'Summa Theologiae I', which should properly read, "...unicum Verbum eius est expressivum non solum patris..." #ClassicsTwitter t.co/2iSfCsT9Nj Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Bottom photographed page, lines above and below Aquinas footnote", "reason": "Full-resolution original clips the left/right edges and top/bottom of this separate page fragment. Visible tail ‘Lubac, Exégèse médiévale, Paris (Aubier) 1959.’ and lower ‘The essential core [of the gnostic system] is the enterprise of…’ do not permit recovery of their complete sentences. The introduction author is not identified in the image or exact saved excerpt."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Thomas Aquinas quoted in footnote Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 207. Cf. D. Thomas: “Deus enim cognoscendo se, cognoscit omnem creaturam... Sed quia Deus uno actu et se et omnia intelligit, unicum Verbum eius est espressivum solum Patris, sed etiam creaturam.” Sum. theol. 1, g. 34, a. 3, c. (cf. also Ps. 39, 3 ff.). Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Bottom photographed page, lines above and below Aquinas footnote", "reason": "Full-resolution original clips the left/right edges and top/bottom of this separate page fragment. Visible tail ‘Lubac, Exégèse médiévale, Paris (Aubier) 1959.’ and lower ‘The essential core [of the gnostic system] is the enterprise of…’ do not permit recovery of their complete sentences. The introduction author is not identified in the image or exact saved excerpt."}]
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