Corrective patience

JHYoder in "'Patience' as a Method in Moral Reasoning" identifies "corrective" patience.  It is "the right use of wrong theology."  "They use concepts which if absolutized become false, yet serve as part of a valid process.  Examples of such concepts listed by Yoder are:  Reformers' appeal to "the scriptures"; "the exact meaning of a text" in biblical studies; historicism claim to find "what really happened"; relativism's claims that "all meanings are community dependent"; the appeal to "objectivity"; just about any dichotomy; appeals to levels of generality and specificity in moral debates.

This gets at my take on the idea of a "worldview."  It probably had a place, but if absolutized sinks in even calm waters.

The ontology of beauty

‎"Beauty has an older claim on us than does time: beauty was there in the beginning before time was conceived; it was inherent in the originating Word, the idea and its pronouncement." CLM


 I am particularly struck by this quote on this latest reading because I'm reading Gadamer's Truth and Method, and Arendt's Life of the Mind at the same time. They all advocate the primacy of beauty (though other aspects of their ontologies conflict).