Kids

[Dave Monroe]

... but a Protestant "rising towards human perfection"?  Certainly not in the
seemingly Calvinist, Puritan Protestanism of preterition and election
foregrounded in Gravity's Rainbow, "human perfection" being an assumed
impossibility therein ...

Terrance wrote:

> Well, we have a lot on the stove here, but
> http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/25/reviews/000625.25colest.html
>
> Also, I recommended Kozol's latest, but his 'Savage
> Inequalities: Children in American Schools' is his best
> work, be careful, it's a heavy corner
> >
> > This all ties in with Terrance's "bottom line" post about the difference
> > between the Catholic cycle of sin, repentance, and forgiveness and the
> > Protestant's gradual and more of less continuous rising toward human
> > perfection. Was Augustine vs the Pelagians a dress rehersal for the
> > Reformation and for Gravity's Rainbow. Very possibly.
> >
> > Important tension in GR between the two poles.
>
> Infant Baptism again? hmmmmm