{"id":8683,"date":"2021-02-01T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/?p=8683"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:46:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:46:23","slug":"the-intellectual-christian-in-annotations-of-juan-luis-lorda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/firmas\/anotaciones\/el-intelectual-cristiano-en-anotaciones-de-juan-luis-lorda\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christian intellectual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its&nbsp;<em>Introduction to Christianity<\/em>&nbsp;(1968), Ratzinger takes up the parable of Kierkegaard in his&nbsp;<em>Diapsalmata<\/em>&nbsp;(1843): a clown runs to warn the people of a fire in the circus. The more he shouts, the more they laugh at him, and so the fire eats the circus and the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the fate of the Christian intellectual, Kierkegaard thinks, who announces what people no longer want to hear. Then, because he had made a Christianity to suit himself. Now, because it has become detached and flees from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a fact that Christianity seems to people to be a known thing; that words alone do not move; and that, as Nietzsche charged, we Christians do not look very much like we have been saved. Orwell said that <em>\"freedom consists in telling people what they do not want to hear\".<\/em>. Ortega, recalling Amos, said that the mission of the intellectual is to <em>\"oppose and seduce\".<\/em>. But with the beauty of charity, a continual miracle and proof of God in this world, which the Holy Spirit puts in hearts. Newman knew this from experience:&nbsp;<em>Cor ad cor loquitur<\/em>. So many witnesses.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En su&nbsp;Introducci\u00f3n al cristianismo&nbsp;(1968), Ratzinger recoge la par\u00e1bola de Kierkegaard en su&nbsp;Diapsalmata&nbsp;(1843): un payaso corre a avisar al pueblo de un incendio en el circo. Cuanto m\u00e1s grita, m\u00e1s se r\u00eden de \u00e9l, y as\u00ed el fuego se come el circo y el pueblo. Es el sino del intelectual cristiano, piensa Kierkegaard, que anuncia lo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[585,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anotaciones","category-firmas","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}