Gustav Niebuhr
Director of the Religion & Society Program, Syracuse University

Gustav Niebuhr

Niebuhr is an associate professor of religion and the media at Syracuse University and directs Religion & Society Program, an interdisciplinary undergraduate major.

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In Art, Truth in Part

I lack a single passage within scripture or literature with which to define my faith. I'll argue instead that's because the field of possibilities is too rich -- and one might add in the case of literature, ever-growing. I doubt I'm alone in saying my beliefs can be inspired, magnified, by what I read, often in unlikely places.

But shouldn't that make sense? Follow the Jewish and Christian claim that we humans are made in God's image, and we should, occasionally, have the power to reflect glory through our artistic abilities. My ongoing encounter with literature, as with the visual arts (including film) can leave me feeling I've shared vicariously with authors in their uniquely illuminating experiences of the divine.

The Roman Catholic novelist Flannery O'Connor, who lived and died in the segregationist South of the last century, wrote a darkly comic short story, "Revelation," in which a "respectable" but thoroughly racist farm wife, reeling from an insult dealt her by an unstable adolescent earlier in the day, receives a shocking and unwanted vision of the breadth of God's unfathomable grace.

Out watering her hogs late in the evening, the woman, Ruby Turpin, sees a "purple streak" emerge from the sky. "She saw the streak as a vast swinging bridge extending upward from the earth in a field of living fire. Upon it a vast horde of souls were rumbling toward heaven." They include everybody with whom she has never wished to associate -- crowds of poor whites, African-Americans and many others. "And bringing up the end of the procession was a tribe of people whom she recognized at once as those, who like herself and Claud [her husband], had always had a little of everything and the God-given wit to use it right. She leaned forward to observe them closer. They were marching behind the others with great dignity, accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behavior. They alone were on key. Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away."

If you have beliefs you call religious, you will find yourself party to something that ever exceeds the human imagination. But you may see it reflected in part. So saying, I close with another remarkable writer, Emily Dickinson:

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind--


By Gustav Niebuhr  |  August 21, 2007; 6:58 AM ET  | Category:  Personal Religion
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To PEACETROLL: Jesus said a lot of things. The last shall be first and the first shall be last, sounds inclusive does it not? Christianity teaches that Jesus took all the sins of humanity upon Himself, Jesus, God-Incarnate Himself, went to hell, "My God, My God why have thou forsaken Me", think about it. God didn't kill Jesus, since I consider myself a christian then that means that I killed Him by MY wrongdoing, what do you think being a christian is? Is it being honest with yourself or condemning everyone else? O, by the way, I am the guilty goat sent out into the desert of sin blessed by Aaron, somebody had to be me. To PAGANPLACE: I don't know what a spammer is and I did post it on different sites, have you actually read it? I have a job to do and the computer is just a tool that I use. I know who I am and what my job is, I don't know how to do it, so I am just doing it. Most of the letters that I have sent in the regular mail go unanswered, the e-mails that I send to various places go unanswered so I am just doing what I can. Have you noticed that a lot of people can't seem to tolerate God being more merciful and forgiving than they are, that a lot of people get upset that I say it is important what you do and why you do it, and some of these actually call themselves christians? This is called an on faith posting site, there sure does seem to be some people that have great faith in the ultimate meaninglessness of life and are trying to cram it down other people's throat, I am just trying to do what God chose me for and I tell you and the rest of the world that God sure is nothing like what a lot of people that know His Name think He is. Sincerely, Thomas Paul Moses Baum.

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Seems, Peacetroll, that Thomas has taken up the spammer's ways, he's posted that to every thread I've been on this week.

I mean, I generally find everything you say wrong-headed, hateful, and repugnant, but at least you're not a cut-and-paster, that I've seen. :)

Why are you so attached to non-sheep being 'damned?'

Does it give you pleasure? Comfort? What terrible hole in your sense of self could account for that?

Why, in fact, do you choose to see in those words of yours, the idea that some people must be 'damned' in order for you to be 'saved?'

I see the 'troll' part, but your words show nothing of 'peace.'

Posted by: Paganplace | August 21, 2007 3:34 PM
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Thomas.

DO you actually believe the Goats and the tares will be saved?

Those who are God's will love Christ, do you not believe what Jesus told you?

IF YOU ARE OF GOD YOU WILL LOVE HIM (JESUS).

What did he say to the Pharisee's?

(who you say are his children...NOT):

John 8:

46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”

So, we can either believe Thomas or Christ Jesus.

I will believe Jesus.

Universalism is a farce:
http://emmanuel.godisjesus.net/Don't%20be%20fooled.htm

God Is Jesus and Usery and banking exposed:
http://emmanuel.godisjesus.net/


Posted by: Peacetroll | August 21, 2007 1:37 PM
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The passage in scripture that is referred to as The Lord's Prayer and also the Our Father: Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven, give us this day our daily Bread, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one. OUR FATHER, as in the Father of the entire human race considering that not only did He create everyone but also everything. WHO ART IN HEAVEN, not only is He in Heaven but He is also putting the finishing touches on the Heavenly Jerusalem not to be confused with the New Jerusalem which is going to go down the tubes just like the Old Jerusalem only more so. HALLOWED BE THY NAME, actually God is Pure Love but from so many of the posts that call themselves christians, you would never know. THY KINGDOM COME, God's Kingdom which will be a Kingdom of Pure Love and it is for all of His children which is ALL OF HUMANITY. THY WILL BE DONE, Like it says in many places in the bible, it is God's Will that ALL BE SAVED, also if all that someone calling themself a christian, cares about is going to the "good place" , how christian is that, considering that on the cross Jesus said, "Father forgive them", there is not an asterick after them, them means ALL OF HUMANITY, we have all done wrong at least I have. ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, as it says even the forces of evil, satan and his cohorts, are working toward the Will of God even if inadvertantly, besides being a liar and a thief, the deceiver is also a loser. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD, this refers not only to that which sustains us physically but also the Eucharist which is the BREAD OF LIFE. FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US, this is a divine equation, pure and simple, Jesus told us as much. AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, satan is the tempter and like it says when we fall which we all seem to do at times at least I have we can ask for forgiveness, we can go directly to God for forgiveness, the curtain in front of the Holy of Holies has been torn in two, yes the one that so many people are trying to sew back together. BUT DELIVER US FROM THE EVIL ONE, yes satan and his cohorts are real and in God's Plan, All of Humanity will be delivered from all evil that is why we are to be willing and active participants in God's Plan whatever we may have been called or chosen to do. Sincerely, Thomas Paul Moses Baum.

Posted by: Thomas Baum | August 20, 2007 6:21 PM
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"I doubt I'm alone in saying my beliefs can be inspired, magnified, by what I read, often in unlikely places."

I doubt you are alone too. Think of your experience in another light, though. The art and literature that is a pale reflection of the divine also conditions your idea of the divine. In this way the literary and artistic pillars of our secular world influence and shape our perception of the divine. Religion is then tempered by our secular understanding. That tempering happens even as we feel the experience as connecting us to the divine.

Posted by: StillaScot | August 19, 2007 9:28 PM
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**I lack a single passage within scripture or literature with which to define my faith. I'll argue instead that's because the field of possibilities is too rich -- and one might add in the case of literature, ever-growing. I doubt I'm alone in saying my beliefs can be inspired, magnified, by what I read, often in unlikely places.**


This is exactly why I keep a journal (actually several, since I tend to copy things down in whatever medium is available at the time, from a Word document to a Coffee Call napkin) in which I record things I read or hear that resonate with my soul.

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