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A Realism for Reconciliation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Kenneth Henderson
Kenneth Henderson
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(Religious Broadcasts Supervisor: Australian Broadcasting Commission)
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“I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak the words of truth and soberness.” In this cry of Paul's we hear the idealist in all ages making his agonized claim to realism in face of the Powers that Be. Festus and Agrippa represent the ex-officio history-makers in this scene. Paul is proclaiming fundamental facts and possibilities that those who have power fail to see. And so, in claiming to be sane, he becomes the spokesman for all who see the Not-Yet as stronger than the Now, and behold What is Meant to Be as more powerful than What Is.

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Philosophy , Volume 27 , Issue 100 , January 1952 , pp. 58 - 65
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1952

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